The Mountain Goats – First Blood (Guitar)

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[Intro] G [Verse]
                  C
Mail-ordered body armor

                       G
Map to the Blue Bucket Mine

                                C
Guy who had a place down by the lakeside

                  G
Changing water to wine

                D7
Devastating schematics

                         C
Rough drafts of the 23rd psalm
[Chorus]
                            G
Paul Kersey never left his apartment

     D                       C       G
John Rambo never went to Vietnam
[Verse]
                     C
Armor-piercing Black Talons

                          G
From the first production line

                          C
Nobody's seen them in the wild

         G
Since 1991

                          D7
Out in the cul-de-sacs at midnight

                                      C
Where the candy for the cannons comes from
[Chorus]
                          G
I heard Buford Pusser was dirty

     D                       C   D   C   G
John Rambo never went to Vietnam
[Interlude] Am C G Am C G [Verse]
                     C
Shall we rise to the occasion

                               G
Or go to sleep for good in the trenches?

                                C
Dug in beneath a brilliant blue sky

                            G
Helmets hanging high in the branches

                     D7
Empty vessels by the dozens

                C
Diamonds in the sun
[Chorus]
                          G
We worship nothing in the foxholes

     D                       C   D   C
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

     D                       G
John Rambo never went to Vietnam
[Outro] Am C G Am C G