The Mountain Goats – The Diaz Brothers (Guitar Live)

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Chords

The F and G chords are always barred.
Bass run (after C Am F)
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[Intro] C Am F [Verse 1]
C        Am                F
Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line,

C          Am                 Em                  F
 Spend the wet night tracking visions through the pines.

                              G
Draw my arms into my hospital gown.

C                            F
See the sky open up and rain down,

G
Rain down.
[Chorus]
C     Am           F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.

C     Am           F          G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
[Verse 2]
C       Am                    F     G
Hear my rivals on the western wind.

C       Am       Em                         F
Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.

                            G
Work by the Plutonian light.

C                Am          F    
Forbidden rosary prayers all night,

G
All night.
[Chorus]
C     Am           F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.

C     Am           F          G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
[Verse 3]
Dm        Am
Beam of a flashlight,

Dm               Am
All night in the woods.

Em           C
Hunt us like dogs,

         F                G
And then string us up for good.

C        Am            F
Keep one step ahead of enemies.

C        Am                     Em                  F
Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.

                            G
Lead us to the beach by our hands,

    C                     F    G
And bury us there in the sand.
[Chorus]
C     Am           F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.

C     Am           F          G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.

C     Am           F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.

C     Am           F          C
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.