The Handsome Family – Octopus (Guitar)

            C
The octopus has 3 hearts

F                  Fm
And lives in caves below the sea

        C        G    F
Or in a beer can or a bath tub

     E             Am
Or a puddle in the street

                  C
Any fisherman can tell you

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When an octopus waves its arms

   C    G     F
It hypnotizes schools of fish

    E                  Am
All movement stops for miles

                     C
Even the waves stand still

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All the witnesses have sworn

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And it’s impossible to resist

    E            Am
The urge to jump overboard

       C
That’s why I try and stay away

     F               Fm
From seashore holidays

      C         G      F
But I know that no one has to know

     C       G       F
If I take an evening stroll

C           G          F
Down to the end of the wooden peer

          E                Am
Where the water’s deep and cold

                   C
If I should see an octopus

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Lift its arms out of the sea

   C       G      F
Or see its shadow rising up

          E                  Am
Cross the rooftops above the streets

                         C
I’d follow those dancing limbs

       F             Fm
To the spinning edge of the sky

C             G          F
Where all the boats fall off the world

     E             Am
Into the octopus’s eye

       C
That’s why I know I shouldn’t go

     F                 Fm
On a cruise across the sea

      C         G      F
But I know that no one has to know

     C       G       F
If I take an evening stroll

C           G          F
Down to the end of the wooden peer

          E                Am
Where the water’s deep and cold

       C
That’s why I try and stay away

     F             Fm
From seashore holidays

      C         G      F
But I know that no one has to know

     C       G       F
If I take an evening stroll

C           G          F
Down to the end of the wooden peer

          E                Am
Where the water’s deep and cold