The Mountain Goats – Cobra Tattoo (Guitar)

A7/G                  C#m      Bm          A
Sun just clearing the treeline when my day begins

A7/G                C#m      Bm                       A
Slippery ice on the bridges, northeastern wind coming in

A7/G               C#m   Bm                 A
You will bruise my head, I will strike your heel

A7/G                C#m                A/E                  A7/G
Drive past woods of northern pine, try not to let go of the wheel

         C
Dream at night

            G        A
Girl with a cobra tattoo

       C
On her arm

                 G          A
Its head flaring out like a parachute

A7/G              C#m   Bm          A
Prisms in the dew drops in the underbrush

A7/G               C#m             Bm                A
Skatecase sailor's purses floating down in the black needlerush

A7/G            C#m   Bm            A
Higher than the stars I will set my throne

A7/G              C#m      Bm                          A
God does not need Abraham, God can raise children from stones

         C
Dream at night

            G     A
Girl with a cobra tattoo

           C
And try to hear

                 G             A
The garbled transmissions come through