Parquet Courts – Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth (Guitar)

Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth - Parkay Quarts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] D Bm x4
D                              Bm
 I'd seen the blood lanes of Antietam

D                             Bm
  The shotgun shack in Tupelo

     D                        Am
But a brick circumference left hollow by Sherman

G                             Em
 Crumbling before me, how it moaned

D                           Bm
 His shape swallows my recollection

D                          Bm
 That phantom silhouette implied

D                               Am
  Strange fruit rotting from an air morning hotter than hell

G                                  Em
  Is this the king's last man I've spied?

D                           Bm
 I stood there beside my companion

D                              Bm
 Scratching a rumor he had heard

D
  Do you have a gun?

              Am
What? He said, yeah, you mean this one?

G                                    Em
 Straight down the barrel was his word

D                                   Bm
 And I smelt the fumes he inhaled swiftly

D                               Bm
 Each word was hinged upon his choke

D                        Am
 Like kudzu creeping up a state tree discreetly

G                        Em
  Forever bending as it broke

D                                 Bm
 And I heard the jangling keys of Graceland

D                                       Bm
 Ring from his teeth stained brown from coke

D                           Am
  Drunk and stumbling like a man of distinction

G                             Em
 They clamored shaking as he spoke

D                              Bm
 Of droves of pilgrims at his doorway

D                             Bm
 Of Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Gore

D                       Am
  Fortunes offered them, refused routinely

G                                     Em
This ain't no damn auction house he swore

D                                     Bm
 Black male standing around 6 foot something

D                                     Bm
 Ebbs through the waves of small town bias

D                     Am
  A minute coldly from southern affection

G                         Em
  Collides secretly into night

D                              Bm
  Forgive those who trespass against us

D                             Bm
  Begins the dead intruder's plea

D                     Am
  Into the very muzzle I'd once bit into

G                                   Em
  He gives the last words he will speak

D                                  Bm
 That broken glass supports forced entry

D                                  Bm
  Reminds his lawyer through the phone

D                               Am
 What southern judge do you know, comforting gently

G                                     Em
 Who jails white men who defend their home?

D                                    Bm
Well, no souls were present for the moment

D                                    Bm
 His bombed out brick walls finally fell

D                       Am
  Lying face down in the throes of atonement

G                                Em
 Checked out of the Heartbreak Hotel
D Bm D Bm D Am G Em
D        A      G      D      A      G
It's the uncast shadow of a southern myth x5