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Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
by The Mountain Goats
tabbed by Jonathan Bliss
      and Andy Moskowitz

Capo at 1st fret

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

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