The Mountain Goats – Color In Your Cheeks (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The chords used in this song are mostly barre chords, but you can use pretty much any variation of each chord that you want and it still sounds great. [Verse 1]
C#m        G#        A          B
  She came in on the red-eye to Dallas-Fort Worth.

E         G#       A         B
  All the way from sunny Taipei.

C#m        G#         A        B
  Skin the color of a walnut shell,

      E           G#       A                B
And a baseball cap holding down her black hair.

             A             B 
And she came here after midnight.

E                          A
  The hot weather made her feel right at home.
[Chorus]
        E      A
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.

                   E          A                B
Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks.
[Verse 2]
C#m        G#          A    B
  He drove in from Mexicali no worse for wear.

E          G#   A        B
  Money to burn, time to kill, but

C#m    G#      A              B
  Five minutes looking in his eyes and 

         E              G#             A          B              A
  We all knew he was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had.

                              B
We cleared a space for him to sleep in,

               E
And we let the silence that's our trademark

A
Make its presence felt.
[Chorus]
        E      A
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.

                   E          A                B
Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks.
[Interlude] C# G# A B E B [Verse 3]
C#m         G#        A       B              E
  They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling.

                G#      A
Some were bright-eyed,

          B
Some were dead on their feet.

E          G#           A              B          E
  And they came from Zimbabwe, Or from Soviet Georgia,

           G#             A                 B               A
East Saint Louis, or from Paris, or they lived across the street.

                               B
But they came, and when they'd finally made it here,

           E                         A                   
It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear.
[Chorus]
        E      A    
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.

                   E            A                B
Drink some of this, this'll put color in your cheeks.
[Outro] E A E A E B C#m G# A B (x3) E