The Mountain Goats – Cotton
Chords by Danilo Herrera
I’m 99% sure this is right, and 100% sure it’s more accurate than the other one on this site.
As played in the album “We Shall All Be Healed”
Standard tuning (EADGBe)
Time signature: 4/4
Chords used:
X 3 2 0 1 0 X 1 3 3 3 1 X X 0 2 3 1 1 3 3 2 1 1
X 0 2 2 1 0 3 5 5 3 3 3
Intro:
– – – – (Play the C and Bb chords for 8 beats each, and the Dm and F
chords for just 4 beats each)
This song is for the rats
Who hurled themselves into the ocean
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
Were just about to blow
This song is for the soil
That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
Where no thing of consequence can grow
Drop your seeds there, let them go
--> play for 4 beats each
Let them all go
*
Let them all go
This song is for the people
Who tell their families that they're sorry
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for
And once there was a desk
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
I left in the top drawer
Let 'em all go
*
Let 'em all go
Interlude:
C Gm F C --> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times
I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
And something has got to give
I saw you waiting by the roadside
You didn't know that I was watching
Now you know
Let it all go
Let 'em all go
*
Let it all go
Outro:
--> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times.
*:
Strum the Am chord a few times and at the final strums release the index finger
from the B string and strum. Alternate between this and the normal Am 2 or 3
times. Listen to the song to get the hang of it