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"Carmen Cicero"
The Mountain Goats/The Extra Glenns

Transcribed by Jon A.

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A: x02220
C#m: x46654
B: x24442

Intro: E

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 There's power in the name
 But the name's been lost for centuries
 There's poison is in the water
 But the water tastes like honey
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 And we're so thirsty we don't care where we wake up tomorrow
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 We don't care, the question can hardly hold our attention
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 And this is a song for your young men to sing when they run out of options
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 Yeah, when they run out of options

 There's the faith you can give or withhold
 And then there's the one true faith
 There's the revolution you came for
 And the one you're eventually going to get.
 And there's a road that starts right here and leads clear up to Saskatchewan
 And I brought a full tank and a '67 mustang.
 And this is a song for your young women to whistle
 While they're driving at high speeds down the highway

 The wind up in the trees
 The song on the wind
 There's a message in the song
 But the message is hopelessly complicated
 And the words on water
 And dissapeear before you write them down
 But I, I brought the Polaroid
 And this the song
 And everyone's got sing along
 But it hasn't got a chorus
 God damn it all

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 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

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