The Mountain Goats – Sept 15Th 1983 (Guitar)

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D                            Bm
Long dinner with some friends

D                            Bm
Way out way out in Portmore

D                            Bm
Servants of he pharaoh 

G                           A
Slip in through the open door

         D           Bm                 
All business

D                            Bm
Bearing knives and zip-guns

D                            Bm         
So get on the floor now 

G                        A
Every last one every last one

G               A           D      Bm   A   G
The heat drifts across the land

G           D      A
If I forget you Israel 

D             Bm A     G
Let me forget my right hand

D                            Bm
And on the floor Michael James Williams

D                          Bm
Feels his fingers start to freeze

D                            Bm
And the whole scene's like a movie

G                    A
Paramedics on their knees

             D           Bm
Try try your whole life

D                      Bm
To be righteous and be good

D                 Bm
Wind up on your own floor

G          A
Choking on blood

G               A           D      Bm   A   G
The heat drifts across the land

G           D      A
If I forget you Israel 

D             Bm A     G
Let me forget my right hand

D                              Bm
And the house still smells like onions

D                   Bm
When the ambulance arrives

D          Bm
Gabriel in postal blue

G                     A                    D       Bm
Loads up the car and drives to Spanish town

D                 Bm
About three miles away 

D                     Bm
Where will the wicked run to 

G                          A
on that last day? on that last day?

G               A           D      Bm   A   G
The heat drifts across the land

G           D      A
If I forget you Israel 

D             Bm A     G
Let me forget my right hand