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Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
by The Mountain Goats

Capo at 1st fret

Main riff: 
e--0--0--0--0--  
B--1--1--1--1--  
G--0--0--0--0-- 
D--2--3--2--0-- 
A--3--3--3--3-- 
E--------------

Chords:
C     x32010 
Cadd4 x33010
Cadd9 x30010
Cmaj7 x32000
G     320033
F     133211

C
lying in the hot sun today
Cadd4               C   Cadd9
watching the clouds run away
C
thought a little while about you
Cadd4         C          Cadd9
the sky was a petrifying blue
              C
and while the geese flew past
       G
for no reason at all
C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7-C
i let the sky fall
           C             G
this is an empty country, and i am the king
C                                    Cadd4    C Cadd9
and i should not be allowed to touch anything

C Cadd4 C Cadd9 (x2)

C
i picked myself up off the ground
          Cadd4                   C        Cadd9
shook the grass from my hair and i walked around
C                           Cadd4
felt the warm sun in my eye
               C       Cadd9
strangers were passing by
           C            Cmaj7
i shimmied up the black walnut tree
        F
let the hard blue sky fall right through me
              C                   G
and i saw the sad young cardinals, trying to sing
             C                          Cadd4   C Cadd9
and i should not be allowed to touch anything


C Cadd4 C Cadd9 (x8)
Fiddle around with the 1st fret on the B string a bit