The Mountain Goats – Rage Of Travers (Guitar)

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***The Gdim7 and Bbdim7 are harmonically interchangeable, it just denotes the bass note. You can also play both as an A7. [Intro] E D (x2) [Verse 1]
E                            D
 Close the balcony and the rainbow

E                          D
 Because the promoter says so

Bb                                  F
 Aviators and a buckskin frontier hat

Eb                          Dm
 How come they dress like that?

A7                 Ab             Bb
 They break the news to me so gentle

Fdim7                           Bb
 But I start to feel sentimental
[Pre-Chorus]
A7                        Dm
This used to be the place to go

Bbdim7  Ab                           D
         Still draw pretty good in Ontario
[Chorus]
G            D               Em        D
 Nobody wants to hear the twelve bar blues

Gdim7  Bm                   E
         From a guy in platform shoes
[Interlude] Eadd9 D (x2) [Verse 2]
E                                            D
 Let's just have a good time when the show's done

E                                         D
 Ask where the good clubs are and go find one

Bb                                        F
 Roll up to the curb, spill out of the car

Eb                                Dm
 Everyone's dressed up like corpses I brought my guitar

A7             Ab        Bb
 Set it down by the stage

Fdim7                                    Bb
 The singer's locked up in a steel cage
[Pre-Chorus]
A7                                Dm
 Shaking the bars, eyes wild with fear

Bbdim7  Ab        D
     I don't belong here
[Chorus]
G            D               Em        D
 Nobody wants to hear the twelve bar blues

Gdim7  Bm                   E
         From a guy in platform shoes
[Out] Eadd9 D