Lake Geneva chords by The Handsome Family

[Intro]

E

     E
You are crouched before the fire
   F#m
in a state park by the highway
    B
and through the heavy pine trees
     A        E
ten-ton trucks go groaning by

      E
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara
     F#m
who went crazy in the 70's
    B
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter
    A        E
but forgot to feed her kids

       G#
But it's the first time you're together
     A       E
since he got out of the hospital
G#
Raccoons in the darkness
   A        B
drag off your hotdog buns

       E
But, you're happy just to lie there
     F#m
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart
    B
like sticks and fallen dead leaves
       A      E
to feed the fire of the world

  E    F#m        B        A     E
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|-5------5--5/2------2--------------------------5---5---2-5-|
|-----------------------4-----------------------------------|
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   E
But which is more important,
  F#m
to comfort an old woman
    B
or see visions of the heavens
     A        E
in the stumps of fallen trees?

G#
Albert Einstein trembled
     A         E
when he saw that time was water,
G#
seeping through the rafters
    A        B
to put out this burning world

  E     F#m       B         A   E
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|-13----------------------------------------13-13/14---------------|
|-14---14----------16--16------------------------------------------|
|---------14-14/16-------------16--16/18---------------------------|
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   E
Next morning you're at Waffle House
 F#m
Toast and eggs and hash browns
 B
Truckers chain-smoke Camels
    A       E
over plastic cups of juice

     G#
And you remember how he cried
       A          E
when they strapped him to the stretcher,
  G#
convinced his arms were burning
      A      E
with electricity from heaven
    G#
You remember how he told you
    A          E
that black holes were like Jesus
     G#
And the crucifix was a battery
   A          E
that filled the air with fire

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