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+"Gojam Province 1968"
+The Mountain Goats
+Satanic Messiah
-Gojam Province 1968
+Transcribed and arranged for guitar by Jon A.
-Running like a band of angry schoolboys
+Chords (in order of appearance):
-Up and down the well lit streets today
+G/B: x20003
-Bashing in the heads of tax collectors
+F/C: x33211
-And anybody else who's in our way
+C/G: 332010
+F: 133211
+G: 320033
+C: x32010
+Dm: xx0210
+Am: x02210
+F6: 13323x (fingering, low to high: thumb, middle, ring, index, pinky)*
+Fmaj7: 133210 (thumb on 6th string)*
+Am7: x02213
+G6: 320030
+Fmaj7(13): 133230 (same fingering as F6 above)*
+Fmaj7/C: x33210
+G/D: xx0003
+F(add9)/C: x33x13 (fingering: middle, ring, index, pinky; mute G string with ring finger)
-Bathing in the sunlight that's our birthright
+*You can omit the thumb on the 6th string if it's too hard to grab. Here are some alternate fingerings for those chords:
-Waiting for someone to set the scene
+F6: 1x323x (index, ring, middle, pinky)
-Last time he came to town, a few stray coins came raining down
+Fmaj7: xx3210
-We scrambled in the dirt for them like ants around the queen
+Fmaj7(13): xx3230
-We take aim at the dawning day
+Intro: G/B  F/C  C/G
-And we shoot
+       F    G    C
-Starving to death, starving to death
-For the low hanging fruit
-Then all at once here comes the motorcade
+G/B           F/C                      C/G
-Slow and steady down the beaten track
+  Running like a band of angry schoolboys
-As we're bashing out the windows of the limo
+F            G                         C
-We notice there's nobody in the back
+  Up and down the well lit streets today
+Dm          G                         Am       F6
+  Bashing in the heads of tax collectors
+C             G                     Fmaj7
+  And anybody else who's in our way
-And a helicopter lands atop the palace
+C  G  F
-The Royal Guard assembles at the gate
+C  G  F
-The country's gonna burn and we'll still have to wait our turn
-Last among contenders of the super featherweights
-We take aim at the dawning day
+G/B             F/C                        C
-And we shoot
+  Bathing in the sunlight that's our birthright
-Starving to death, starving to death
+F             G                      C/G
-For the low hanging fruit
+  Waiting for someone to set the scene
+       Dm              G                 Am                 F6
+  Last time he came to town, a few stray coins came raining down
+     C                G                  F               G
+  We scrambled in the dirt for them like ants around the queen
+          Am7                   G6
+  We take aim at the dawning day
+               Fmaj7(13)
+  And we shoot
+                    C                  G/D
+  Starving to death, starving to death
+                            C     G/D  Fmaj7/C
+  For the low hanging fruit
+C  G/D  F(add9)/C
+C  G/D  F/C
+C  G/D  F/C
+  Then all at once here comes the motorcade
+  Slow and steady down the beaten track
+  As we're bashing out the windows of the limo
+  We notice there's nobody in the back
+  And a helicopter lands atop the palace
+  The Royal Guard assembles at the gate
+  The country's gonna burn and we'll still have to wait our turn
+  Last among contenders of the super featherweights
+  We take aim at the dawning day
+  And we shoot
+  Starving to death, starving to death
+  For the low hanging fruit
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