Chords for The Mountain Goats - The Sign [Radio Session]

I generally don't listen to people who do what I do.
I like other stuff that I can't do, you know?
_ Ace of Base, can you play that song for us?
_ I don't_
I'm tempted, but you know, at this point, that song is_
_ It's more of a concert piece, you know?
Do you know how it goes lately?
Mm-mm.
You haven't heard any of the live versions of it?
Uh-uh. _
_ _ _ [C#] I hope you're sitting down.
[G#] Okay.
_ Because this is going to take a while. _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ In [C#] 1993 [G#] or thereabouts, in [A] the city of [C#] Gothenburg, whose actual name is [G#] Jotvorg, [C#] Sweden,
there were four people _ who, [G#] for the greater good of man and for the greater good of our planet
_ [G#] and for the [C#] _
[Am] enlivening of our small [C#] lives, _ [G#] banded together [C#] in common cause.
Their names were Jenny, Joker, [G#]
Lynn, [C#] and Buddha,
though I'm not entirely clear as to [F#m] whether Joker and Buddha [G#] are the real [C#] names that their mothers gave them
or stage names. _
[G#] But they banded together in a disco in Gothenburg [F#m] that I've actually played [G#] at,
which was kind of exciting in an anticlimactic sort of way.
[F#m] And they wrote a [G#] song, and then they wrote nine [E] other songs to surround [F#m] that one song.
[G#] And that one song [C#] _
went to the top of the charts in pretty much [G#] every western [C#] country.
And it [A] was huge, and [C#] no one would admit that they liked [G#] it, but I knew they [C#] did.
It went,
I've got a new life, you would hardly [G#] recognize me, [C#] I'm so glad.
How could a person like [G#] me care for you?
[D#] Why should I [C#] bother when you're not the one for me? _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ I saw the sign, [C#] and it [G#] opened up my eyes.
I saw the sign, [G] love is [C#] demanding without [G#] understanding.
Yeah, I [F] saw the sign, [F#m] and it opened up [G#] my eyes.
I saw the sign, and no one's gonna drag [C#] you up. _ _
[G#] Okay, [C#] so when Rachel and I heard this song, we [F#m] recognized [G#] that it was certainly the finest [C#] piece of writing since Shakespeare's sonnets.
[F#m] And we bought a [G#] tape of it while traveling en route [C#] from Ohio.
Where was it in Ohio?
It was, uh, it was, uh, Columbus.
_ [G#] Columbus, [C#] Ohio.
And we stopped in Bloomington, Indiana where I was [F#m] born, and we bought [G#] the album on cassette.
Threw it into the tape deck [C#] and let the song play, [G#] on a loop.
[C#] _ Listened to Ace of Bases the sign for two and [G#] a half hours, and by the time we [C#] got into Chicago and drove through the south side,
[F#m] the four of us in the [G#] car had a coordinated dance that we were doing.
The people at the [C#] corners liked it.
You could [G#] tell they wanted to sing, and when we played [C#] it that night at the Empty Bottle [A#] in Chicago, people [C#] wouldn't sing along.
For the last [G#] six years, I [C#] have been a one-man crusade in favor of singing along with this [G#] stupid little song.
[C#] It goes,
Under the pale moon, for so many [G#] years I'd wonder who you are.
[D#] How could a person like [G#] you bring me [C#] joy?
Under the pale [F#] moon, where I see a lot [C#] of stars.
Ah, that's poetry.
Two, three, four.
I saw the sign, and it opened up [G#] my eyes.
I saw [C#] the sign, love is demanding, [F#] without _ [G#] understanding.
Yeah, [A] I saw the sign, [C#] and it opened up my eyes.
I saw the sign, [F] and no one's gonna [C#] drag you up.
No one, no one, no one's gonna drag you up, yeah. _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now why would you