Chords for Mountain Goats - Ethiopians - Cartoon by Michael Glading

This is a song that we recorded at Tarbox with Tony Dugan for Tallahassee, but it didn't make the album.
It's one of, I think, three that just stayed in the cans, and it's called Ethiopians.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] Window-mounted air [F]-conditioning unit
_ _ [Am] _ _ Humming [G] like a hive
_ _ [C] We want to send postcards [F] to the friends we used to have
[Am] Rub their noses [G] in the ugly [F] fact
That we are [G] still alive
[F] And we play
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[C] Lovers' Reggae
[Am] _ [F] On [G] accordion and banjo
[F] When the [G] moon is high
[F] And we lie
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[C] On the floor
[Am] Get [F] suspicious [G] of the people
[F] Who've just moved [G] in next door
[C] The bat [F] haste in our mouths
Twinkle [C] in your eye
Good [F] things never last
[G] Bad [C] things never die _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] Wind chime from Tahiti [F] that we found down at the auction
[Am] _ _ Tolls its [G] minor chords
And [C] I can't think of one thing in [F] this whole wide blessed world
[Am] That's more [G] dangerous and frightening
[F] Than you when you [G] get bored
We [F] go through
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[C] Scads of [Am] money
Don't _ [F] know [G] where it comes from
[F] Don't know [G] where it goes
[F] And we stare
[G] Out [C] the window
[Am] See [F] the poison [G] flowers the neighbors [F] grow
Sprouting [G] up in nice neat [C] rows
The swelling [F] in our limbs
[C] Twinkle in your eye
Good things [F] never last
[G] [C] Bad things never die _ _ _
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