The Mountain Goats – Cotton (Guitar)

C              Bb             Dm             F
X 3 2 0 1 0    X 1 3 3 3 1    X X 0 2 3 1    1 3 3 2 1 1

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X 0 2 2 1 0    X 6 8 8 8 6

C
  This song is for the rats

Bb
  Who hurled themselves into the ocean

          Dm                              F
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold

      C
Were just about to blow

C
  This song is for the soil

Bb
  That's toxic clear down to the bedrock

       Dm                         F
Where no thing of consequence can grow

          C
Drop your seeds there, let them go

               Am   C   F   Asus2
Let them all go

               C   Am   F   Am    Asus2 Am  C
Let them all go

C
  This song is for the people

Bb
  Who tell their families that they're sorry

      Dm                   F                 C
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

C
  And once there was a desk

    Bb
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere

          Dm                                 F
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons

   C
I left in the top drawer

              Am   C   F   Asus2
Let 'em all go

              C   Am   F   Am    Asus2 Am
Let 'em all go

C
  I wanna sing one for the cars

         Bb
That are right now headed silent down the highway

         Dm                         F
And it's dark and there is nobody driving

      C
And something has got to give

C
  I saw you waiting by the roadside

Bb
  You didn't know that I was watching

Dm            F
  Now you know

C
  Let it all go

              Am   C   F   Am
Let 'em all go

             C   Am   F   Am    Asus2 Am
Let it all go