Carmen Cicero chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: E

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
E

Verse 1:
E
There's power in the name

But the name's been lost for centuries

There's poison in the water

But the water tastes like honey
       A               C#m
And we're so thirsty we don't care where we wake up tomorrow
      A          B        E
We don't care, the question can hardly hold our attention


E              A         B          E
And this is a song for your young men to sing when they run out of options
A        B     E
Yeah, when they run out of options


Verse 2:
E
There's the faith you can give or withhold

And then there's the one true faith

There's the revolution you came for

And the one you're eventually going to get
        A                  C#m
And there's a road that starts right here and leads clear up to Saskatchewan
    A       B      E
And I brought a full tank and a '67 Mustang


E             A        B
And this is a song for your young women to whistle
       E     A      B    E
While they're driving at high speeds down the highway


Verse 3:
E
There's wind up in the trees

There's a song on the wind

There's a message in the song

But the message is hopelessly complicated
    A
And the words are written on water
     C#m
And they disappear before you write them down
  A  B      E
But I, I brought the Polaroid


E
And this the song
  C#m
And everybody's got sing along
             A
But it hasn't got a chorus
   B    E
God damn it all


Outro:
E          A     B     E
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
E          A     B     E
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
E          A     B     E
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
E          A     B     E
Hey hey-------------la la la la