The Handsome Family – Eels (Guitar)

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From the album Wilderness [INTRO]
   C 
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------1---1---------1---1------1---1---------1---1------1---1---------1---1---
G|-0---0----0---0---------0---0------0---0---------0---0------0---0---------0---0---
D|---2--------2---2---0h2---2---2------2---2---0h2---2---2------2---2---0h2---2---2-
A|-------3-------------------------3------------------------3-----------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[VERSE 1]
      C        F         C      C/B
They used to think the swallows 

      Am      (Em) F
were living under water

F     Fm         C
All through the winter 

Am              F        G        C
when they were missing from the trees
[VERSE 2]
      C        F        C      C/B
They used to think the geese 

 Am               F
budded from the branches

 Dm          Am
Each gentle sunny spring 

      F         G     C
when they came back again
[CHORUS]
          G
But the swallows and the geese, 

  F               C
they have always heard

     Dm             Am
The ringing of the bells 

     F       G         C
that echo through the earth
[VERSE 3]
     C       F      C   C/B
The monarch butterflies 

           Am             F
in their cloud of orange wings

     F       Fm     C
And all the golden eels 

  F         G         C
swimming through the sea
[VERSE 4]
          C    F      C   C/B
They are following a path 

     Am          F
to places never seen

      F       Fm     C
They see the secret map 

     F         G       C
the moon draws on the sea
[CHORUS]
     G
The butterflies and eels, 

  F               C
they have always heard        

     Dm             Am
The ringing of the bells 

     F       G         C
that echo through the earth
[INTERLUDE] C F C Am F Fm C F G C [VERSE 5]
        C         F    C    C/B
But the airplanes overhead 

      Am           F
hang heavy in the air

     Dm            Am
And all the shiny cars, 

      F      G     C
they circle in despair
[CHORUS]
   G
"Where am I?" They cry. 

   F                     C
"Where are you? Where am I?"

     Dm              Am
But they will never hear 

     F          G      C
The bells that ring tonight
[OUTRO]
     F         Fm         C
The bells that    ring tonight
C [CODA] [staccato w/ upstrokes]
C                      C7
But the airplanes overhead 

      F            Fm
hang heavy in the air

    C              G
And all the shiny cars, 

      F     G      C
they circle in despair