the Mountain Goats Wiki

D* = actually performed as four chord hits in one bar: D Em D C.
But this is beyond my ability to play cleanly, so I pretend it's just a bar of D and it seems to work out ok.


G

                C     Cadd9  C  Cadd9
Mail order body armor
			    G
Map to the Blue Bucket Mine
					 C  Cadd9  C  Cadd9
Guy who had a place down by the lakeside
		       G
Changing water to wine
		      D					 C
Devastating schematics, rough drafts of the twenty-third psalm
	                    G
Paul Kersey never left his apartment
     D			     C   D  C  D*  G 
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

Armor-piercing black talons
From the first production run
Nobody's seen them in the wild
Since 1991
Out in the cul-de-sacs at midnight, where the candy for the cannons comes from
I heard Buford Pusser was dirty
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

Am  C  G
Am  C  G

Shall we rise to the occasion
Or go to sleep for good in the trenches?
Dug in beneath a brilliant blue sky
Helmets hanging high in the branches
Empty vessels by the dozen, diamonds in the sun
			  G
We worship nothing in the foxholes
     D                       C   D
John Rambo never went to Vietnam
C      D*                      G         
  John Rambo never went to Vietnam!

Am  C  G
Am  C  G