The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (Guitar)

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This song is very easy to play, but Darnielle's awesome chord voicings make it beautifully satisfying. Most of the credit for this goes to TMG Wiki, but I fixed a few errors by watching John play it live here: There's a repeating bass riff (I think? There's definitely a bass playing this on the 5th & 7th frets, but sound like it's in the guitar octave) tabbed below, and John usually does some sort of embelishment on the end of each verse, so I put the most common one below as well. [Chords] G/D: x5540x or x55403 (John uses the first) G: 320033 A5/G: xxx055 G5: xxx033 A/E: x776xx All others play according to UG pop-ups :)
Bass Ostinato:           Dsus2 Lick
e|------------------|    e|-0--3p2p0--|
B|------------------|    B|-2---------|
G|------------------|    G|-3---------|
D|------------------|    D|-0---------|
A|-7-5-5-7-5-5-7-5--|    A|-----------|
E|------------------|    E|-----------|
[Intro] | D | E | G/D |Dsus2 | (x4) [Verse 1]
D       E     G/D          Dsus2
 Window facing an ill-kept front yard

D             E    G/D        Dsus2
 Plums on the tree heavy with nectar

D           E       G/D          Dsus2
 Prayers to summon the destroying angel

D            E                   G/D             Dsus2
 Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector

  | G | G |
And you

  | D | D |
You
[Instrumental] |A5/G | G5 | D | D | | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| [Verse 2]
D            E       G/D            Dsus2
 Twin prop airplanes passing loudly overhead

D             E      G/D        Dsus2
 Road to the airport, two lanes clear

D            E      G/D           Dsus2
 Half the whole town gone for the summer

D        E      G/D          Dsus2
 Terrible silence coming down here

  | G | G |
And you

  | D | D |
You
[Instrumental] |A5/G | G5 | D | D | | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| [Verse 3]
D             E        G/D         Dsus2
 There is no deadline, there is no schedule

D            E       G/D      Dsus2
 There is no plan we can fall back on

D        E              G/D  Dsus2
 The road this far can't be retraced

D             E        G/D         Dsus2
 There is no punchline anybody can tack on

D      E         G/D         Dsus2
 There are loose ends by the score

D         E      G/D       A/E
 What did I come down here for?

|G/D |G/D |
 You

   | D | D |
 You
[Coda] |A5/G | G5 | D | D | | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| | D | E | G/D |Dsus2| | D | E | G/D |Dsus2|