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                        PSALMS 40:2 - The Mountain Goats
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Tabbed by: Macheeoo

Tuning: Standard


This is how John plays it. He uses all barred chords but you might be able
to play it capo 3 if you can transpose. 

Intro:
Cm   Eb  F  x2


Cm                                Eb                F                Cm
Pulled off the highway in Missouri and low our hearts were heavy laid
                                  Eb                   F 
Made for the chapel with some spray paint for all the things we'd held in
Cm
secret

          F                 Cm
Lord lift up these lifeless bones
         F                  Cm              F               G
Light cascading through the windows all the rainbow's heavy tones


        Cm                   G#
He has fixed his sign in the sky
        Cm                G              Cm
He has raised me from the pit and set me high


Cm                      Eb             F                   Cm               
Left that place in ruin, drunk on the Spirit and high on fumes
                                  Eb              F 
Checked into a Red Roof in stayed up for several hours and then slept like
Cm
infants

               F              Cm
In the burning fuselage of my days
       F       Cm      F               G                      
Let my mouth        be ever fresh with praise


        Cm                   G#
He has fixed his sign in the sky
        Cm                G              Cm
He has raised me from the pit and set me high


F            Cm
Each morning new
F             Cm
Each day shot through
F                                   Cm     G#
With all the sharps small shards of shrapnel 
Cm                           G
that seem to burst of me and you

Cm                               Eb                 F                   Cm
Head down towards kansas We will get there when we get there don't you worry
                             Eb           F 
Feel bad about the things we do along the way 
                    Cm
But not really that bad

     F                Cm
We inhaled the frozen air
      F          Cm            F          G
Lord send me a mechanic if I'm not beyond repair

        Cm                   G#
He has fixed his sign in the sky
        Cm                G              Cm
He has raised me from the pit and set me high


Outro:
Cm   G#  A#   X3
Cm  G  Cm