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COTTON MATHER - KONTIKI
CAMP HILL RAIL OPERATOR WOMAN
In caFre of his contrapBbtion mad camp hill rail Gmoperator womanC F Bb F Bb C
FIs she speaking from the hBbeart?C
Maybe blastiFng from another worlBbd?C
Or just the emissarAmy of a higher court inside thBbe body of a girl?C
FDoes she want to take controBbl?C
When her eight traFck breaks down will she take Bbmy bus home?Gm C
In caFre of his contrapBbtion mad camp hill rail Gmoperator womanC F Bb F Bb C
Is this some sort of reverie for the
One woman Jan and Dean heading for the crash?
Is she half who she ought to be
Or a overdue prodigy
Whose unsolicited view of your present's confused with her past?
At a table by the door
Of my moment but she can't sit still,
And when I crash upon the floor she'll come across the stage
and finish out the bill,
She throws one switch and all trains are in space
What she lays on those tracks you can't ever erase
In caFre of his contrapBbtion mad camp hill rail Gmoperator woman, CyeahF Bb F Bb C
HOMEFRONT CAMEO
Capo 3rd Fret
FEverything is better the boss has madE7e a cameoAm
FHe has seen the infidel army like a pE7rince of oldAm
AmListen to him twist her faith, he's been oDut there all day
CSleeping on the laurels oEf a face from lonAmg agoG F
AmAs matters complicate, it's a terrible thiDng to wait
FEverything is better the boss has madE7e a cameoAm
FHe has seen the infidel army like a pE7rince of oldAm
DmShe's made the bed threBbe times todayF
Each a masterpiece in its own way and takes his name in vain
From this vantage point she is making her plans
Kiss good-bye to this your century map
She calls her future back ,takes his wine from the rack
He wants a glass of water but she sweetly mouths her no
Then like an arrow she's let go, Arcing from he poison beau
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
She has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
SPIN MY WHEELS
D G A G G/F# Em
You run away with my sleep and I'm stuck in here so deep
D G Em G G/F# Em Em/D A
I had a terrible dream and I can't wake up it seems
GIn my parallel field, Bmwhat's Gimagined is realF#m
G E D G G/F# Em Em/D A
For you I conceal, all that I feel and girl you spin my wheels
D G A G G/F# Em
I've got a terrible mind, maybe desperate or unkind
D G Em G G/F# Em Em/D A
Thinking of ways to dispose of the ones we say we love the most
GI want to carry you home, I wBmant to seGe you aloneF#m
G E D G G/F# Em Em/D A
For we will never show all that we feel and girl you spin my wheels
MY BEFORE AND AFTER
Capo 1ST Fret
DShe pGicked me out of the millionsA
Thumbing an OEDF#m
GDressed me down to civilianEm A
F#mCracked the code on the Rosetta StoneG
F#mSaid the word for alone is "alGone"
AMy before and after herEm A D
DWe foGund that R Mutt was trulyA
some work of genius shF#Me helped my besGt friends see through meEm A
F#mSaid the church of his holiness Glied
F#mThis world's no dead end it's park aGnd rideA
AMy before and after herEm A D
F#mNow I'm dangerously reprogrammed Gman
F#mLike that guy in the ManchurianG A
AMy before and after herEm A D
PRIVATE RUTH
She used to love me and that was such an obstacle
Running around in the bad hand-me-downs of someone else's girl
She's pulling my name and making a face
As if to say all that you've been has been erased
Private Ruth, you hate
She's tired of loving the ones she knows she's better than
Moving the men on a chessboard full of all her so called friends
Or maybe she just wants me a drone
Proclaiming edicts from the queen bee in her cone
Private Ruth, you hate
VEGETABLE ROW
GI hear when you talk that Dnot much goes on C
GAnd now I think you might be thDe dark right before my dawnC
GAnd the clouds have made a fissure I've arrGsus4anged that for you misterC
CSo that you can go C/Bahead and prematurely starC/At the process of preserving
You look so afraid and I can see why
You just turned your back on a very dangerous guy
And the bells ring with a vengeance as we witness your ascension
To a land where they can things better than all the "Bells of Rhymny"
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
Think of us in your new haunt
They must have let classes out early those days
And I bet you were the funniest clown at the front of the hip parade
Now you shadows swirl around us take us back to where you found us
Crawl back underneath you couch and tell us things are a little bit skewed
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
I'm thinking of a place where times your boss
And now you just can't wait
To turn in your only key, pass your baton to me,
Sell yourself penny cheap and never stop to total up the cost
Some people give up on the third or fourth try
And some can make a career out of just trying to say good-bye
They've been holding your place someone's here to fill that space
And it's a mighty act of grace you won't have me around
To check you vital signs On vegetable row... Think of us in your new haunt
AURORA BORI ALICE
D D/C D D/C
Alice can you hear me, tonight the sky's not clearing
DYou'lCl neGver see Cassiopeia
D D/C D D/C
You're there at your department, I'm here in your apartment
DAnother night I'll spend aloneC G
EA girl, her teleFscope, and the great unknownD
DAlice in uglD/Cy weather
DYou said we'd be togethD/Cer, and not afraDid to let it showC G
D D/C D D/C
The Pleiades behind her, Orion should remind her
DOf summer boy she's got at homeC G
EShe loves her telescopFe more than I'd known, oh...D
GAurora Bori AAlice, do you think there's someone out in space for you?
CI want to bFe the man tGo change your point of view
GAnd if your Ahear me Alice, redirect your looking glass to earthly heights
CSee a man who loves you sFo much more tGhan Northern Lights
CHURCH OF WILSON
(use barred chords throughout)
CGivBe yourself away iCf you want
How did Gyour Daddy get so gauntB7
CIt's a pretty face B7that you knowC
What's a boy to do when a girl's untrue
Put your bell on your bike
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
CYeah the world's a mess and I BknowC
You don't need mGe to tell you soB7
CWho's it gonna hurt to be BKingsC
GPlaying I the shiny thingsB
Want to make my move to
the throwback groove
While there's stream in the pipes
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
Church of Wilson
LILLY DREAMS ON
DLily I Ghope you picture me in youBmr dreamsE
DPut down your King JamGes BiBmble, You don't need no kingsE
DClose you eyes, baby I'll dry mineA
BmEchoes through the phoneE
Far from this, LDily dAreams onG E
DThink back to fields Gof Catherine, you used to playBm E
DI swore I hearGd you laughing
BmAnd almost sayE
DPull you Amirrors down, Run back to the house
BmAnd let the past be goneE
Far from this, DLily dAreams onG E
ANIMAL SHOW DRINKING SONG
CTook an exit sign tGo a world of Ammotel time
Where we walk a cFrooked line and high is ClowG G7
CTrust your sad MC, time Gto kill the bar AmTele
When the lights cFome on you'll see we're still alConeG G7
Watch the saints Fweave slow
From thCe animal show, animal show, animal show
PASSWORD
ALift your latch and let me pEass that's all I'm asking giDrlA
and forAgive wEhat's unorthodox
I Dfashioned this to slip youDmr locks so we might Ehave a wordA
AWe had a fight I won last Enight but who slept outside Dgirl?A
AWhat if I'm wrong, help me alEong to give a bit and stilDl look strongDm
EI want to tell the worldF#m
F#mKey to the loDck of the heard APasswoErd, F#mis something DI believe we've earnedA
And If Ayou're told I'm bought and Esold and soulless to be sureD A
AYour friends would fight for your adviceE
D"it must be weird, he looked so Dmnice, you're such a lucEky girl"F#m
F#mKey to the loDck of the heard APasswoErd, iF#mts something I Dbelieve we've earnedA
F#mPassword, give Dus back what we deserveA
SHES ONLY COOL
GShe mixes you up and maGsus4kes you come downG Gsus4 G
EmAnd I'm gone enough Cto fall for that nowG
CShe's Donly cool Gtonight aCnd I've lost your sGightC
But that lullGaby caCn nevEmer gDet me homeG
GI've seen a few things I Gsus4think you could sayG Gsus4 G
EmMy words fail me now and Cits better that wayG
CShe'Ds only cool Gtonight anCd I've lost your sGightC
But that lullGaby cCan neEmver gDet me homeG
BmEach night that I spend away is one Emmore I haBmve to behaveC
But Gshe makes it seem so Cuncool not to Gcave, she's only cool Dtonight...
AUTUMN BIRDS
Intro G Bm D7
GPrayed for "EndBmless Summer" made a wish to "Little Wing"
But you gave Cthe world your number and your phone won't ringB7
Uh oh..C.beggiBmng for an early heart attack... Uh ohC Bm D7
GYou've seen the great migration from the world that's locked in Bmice
And you wear Cyour change of station like a faded sticker priceB7
Uh oh.C..beggBming for an early heart attack... Uh ohC Bm D7
CAh surrender Gshe flewD
Under sun Csplit sky drenched crystalline blueG D
Where autumnAm's birds are killing youCm G Cm G Cm
CIn your long coat down by the song tree
CAre you watching a girl no one else can seeG
CFrom the days of enervation man you need some elevation
GWould tDhat the explanation were just part of some bad dream
GAnd when you think you're with it still, the girls know who you aBmre
You could say the Csky's the limit, but you'll never be a starB7
Uh oh.C..beggBming for an early heart attack Uh oh... C Bm D7
CAh surrender Gshe flewD
CUnder sun split sky drenched crystalline blueG D
Where autumnAm's birds are killing youCm
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Kontiki
by Cotton Mather
Chords in this song · guitar
F
Bb
Gm
C
Am
E7
D
E
G
Dm
A
Em
Bm
F#m
Em/D
Gsus4
C/B
C/A
D/C
B
B7
G7
D7
Cm
COTTON MATHER - KONTIKI
CAMP HILL RAIL OPERATOR WOMAN
F Bb Gm C F Bb F Bb C
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman
F Bb C
Is she speaking from the heart?
F Bb C
Maybe blasting from another world?
Am Bb C
Or just the emissary of a higher court inside the body of a girl?
F Bb C
Does she want to take control?
F Bb Gm C
When her eight track breaks down will she take my bus home?
F Bb Gm C F Bb F Bb C
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman
Is this some sort of reverie for the
One woman Jan and Dean heading for the crash?
Is she half who she ought to be
Or a overdue prodigy
Whose unsolicited view of your present's confused with her past?
At a table by the door
Of my moment but she can't sit still,
And when I crash upon the floor she'll come across the stage
and finish out the bill,
She throws one switch and all trains are in space
What she lays on those tracks you can't ever erase
F Bb Gm C F Bb F Bb C
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman, yeah
HOMEFRONT CAMEO
Capo 3rd Fret
F E7 Am
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
F E7 Am
He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
Am D
Listen to him twist her faith, he's been out there all day
C E Am G F
Sleeping on the laurels of a face from long ago
Am D
As matters complicate, it's a terrible thing to wait
F E7 Am
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
F E7 Am
He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
Dm Bb F
She's made the bed three times today
Each a masterpiece in its own way and takes his name in vain
From this vantage point she is making her plans
Kiss good-bye to this your century map
She calls her future back ,takes his wine from the rack
He wants a glass of water but she sweetly mouths her no
Then like an arrow she's let go, Arcing from he poison beau
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
She has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
SPIN MY WHEELS
D G A G G Em
/F#
You run away with my sleep and I'm stuck in here so deep
D G Em G G Em Em A
/F# /D
I had a terrible dream and I can't wake up it seems
G Bm G F#m
In my parallel field, what's imagined is real
G E D G G Em Em/D A
/F#
For you I conceal, all that I feel and girl you spin my wheels
D G A G G Em
/F#
I've got a terrible mind, maybe desperate or unkind
D G Em G G Em Em A
/F# /D
Thinking of ways to dispose of the ones we say we love the most
G Bm G F#m
I want to carry you home, I want to see you alone
G E D G G Em Em/D A
/F#
For we will never show all that we feel and girl you spin my wheels
MY BEFORE AND AFTER
Capo 1ST Fret
D G A
She picked me out of the millions
F#m
Thumbing an OED
G Em A
Dressed me down to civilian
F#m G
Cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone
F#m G
Said the word for alone is "alone"
A Em A D
My before and after her
D G A
We found that R Mutt was truly
F#M G Em A
some work of genius she helped my best friends see through me
F#m G
Said the church of his holiness lied
F#m G A
This world's no dead end it's park and ride
A Em A D
My before and after her
F#m G
Now I'm dangerously reprogrammed man
F#m G A
Like that guy in the Manchurian
A Em A D
My before and after her
PRIVATE RUTH
She used to love me and that was such an obstacle
Running around in the bad hand-me-downs of someone else's girl
She's pulling my name and making a face
As if to say all that you've been has been erased
Private Ruth, you hate
She's tired of loving the ones she knows she's better than
Moving the men on a chessboard full of all her so called friends
Or maybe she just wants me a drone
Proclaiming edicts from the queen bee in her cone
Private Ruth, you hate
VEGETABLE ROW
G D C
I hear when you talk that not much goes on
G D C
And now I think you might be the dark right before my dawn
G Gsus4 C
And the clouds have made a fissure I've arranged that for you mister
C C/B C/A
So that you can go ahead and prematurely start the process of preserving
You look so afraid and I can see why
You just turned your back on a very dangerous guy
And the bells ring with a vengeance as we witness your ascension
To a land where they can things better than all the "Bells of Rhymny"
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
Think of us in your new haunt
They must have let classes out early those days
And I bet you were the funniest clown at the front of the hip parade
Now you shadows swirl around us take us back to where you found us
Crawl back underneath you couch and tell us things are a little bit skewed
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
I'm thinking of a place where times your boss
And now you just can't wait
To turn in your only key, pass your baton to me,
Sell yourself penny cheap and never stop to total up the cost
Some people give up on the third or fourth try
And some can make a career out of just trying to say good-bye
They've been holding your place someone's here to fill that space
And it's a mighty act of grace you won't have me around
To check you vital signs On vegetable row... Think of us in your new haunt
AURORA BORI ALICE
D D/C D D C
/
Alice can you hear me, tonight the sky's not clearing
D C G
You'll never see Cassiopeia
D D/C D D C
/
You're there at your department, I'm here in your apartment
D C G
Another night I'll spend alone
E F D
A girl, her telescope, and the great unknown
D D/C
Alice in ugly weather
D D/C D C G
You said we'd be together, and not afraid to let it show
D D/C D D C
/
The Pleiades behind her, Orion should remind her
D C G
Of summer boy she's got at home
E F D
She loves her telescope more than I'd known, oh...
G A
Aurora Bori Alice, do you think there's someone out in space for you?
C F G
I want to be the man to change your point of view
G A
And if your hear me Alice, redirect your looking glass to earthly heights
C F G
See a man who loves you so much more than Northern Lights
CHURCH OF WILSON
(use barred chords throughout)
C B C
Give yourself away if you want
G B7
How did your Daddy get so gaunt
C B7 C
It's a pretty face that you know
What's a boy to do when a girl's untrue
Put your bell on your bike
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
C B C
Yeah the world's a mess and I know
G B7
You don't need me to tell you so
C B C
Who's it gonna hurt to be Kings
G B
Playing I the shiny things
Want to make my move to
the throwback groove
While there's stream in the pipes
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
Church of Wilson
LILLY DREAMS ON
D G Bm E
Lily I hope you picture me in your dreams
D G Bm E
Put down your King James Bible, You don't need no kings
D A
Close you eyes, baby I'll dry mine
Bm E
Echoes through the phone
D A G E
Far from this, Lily dreams on
D G Bm E
Think back to fields of Catherine, you used to play
D G
I swore I heard you laughing
Bm E
And almost say
D A
Pull you mirrors down, Run back to the house
Bm E
And let the past be gone
D A G E
Far from this, Lily dreams on
ANIMAL SHOW DRINKING SONG
C G Am
Took an exit sign to a world of motel time
F C G G7
Where we walk a crooked line and high is low
C G Am
Trust your sad MC, time to kill the bar Tele
F C G G7
When the lights come on you'll see we're still alone
F
Watch the saints weave slow
C
From the animal show, animal show, animal show
PASSWORD
A E D A
Lift your latch and let me pass that's all I'm asking girl
A E
and forgive what's unorthodox
D Dm E A
I fashioned this to slip your locks so we might have a word
A E D A
We had a fight I won last night but who slept outside girl?
A E D Dm
What if I'm wrong, help me along to give a bit and still look strong
E F#m
I want to tell the world
F#m D A E F#m D A
Key to the lock of the heard Password, is something I believe we've earned
A E D A
And If you're told I'm bought and sold and soulless to be sure
A E
Your friends would fight for your advice
D Dm E F#m
"it must be weird, he looked so nice, you're such a lucky girl"
F#m D A E F#m D A
Key to the lock of the heard Password, its something I believe we've earned
F#m D A
Password, give us back what we deserve
SHES ONLY COOL
G Gsus4 G Gsus4 G
She mixes you up and makes you come down
Em C G
And I'm gone enough to fall for that now
C D G C G C
She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
G C Em D G
But that lullaby can never get me home
G Gsus4 G Gsus4 G
I've seen a few things I think you could say
Em C G
My words fail me now and its better that way
C D G C G C
She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
G C Em D G
But that lullaby can never get me home
Bm Em Bm C
Each night that I spend away is one more I have to behave
G C G D
But she makes it seem so uncool not to cave, she's only cool tonight...
AUTUMN BIRDS
G Bm D7
Intro
G Bm
Prayed for "Endless Summer" made a wish to "Little Wing"
C B7
But you gave the world your number and your phone won't ring
C Bm C Bm D7
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
G Bm
You've seen the great migration from the world that's locked in ice
C B7
And you wear your change of station like a faded sticker price
C Bm C Bm D7
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
C G D
Ah surrender she flew
C G D
Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
Am Cm G Cm G Cm
Where autumn's birds are killing you
C
In your long coat down by the song tree
C G
Are you watching a girl no one else can see
C
From the days of enervation man you need some elevation
G D
Would that the explanation were just part of some bad dream
G Bm
And when you think you're with it still, the girls know who you are
C B7
You could say the sky's the limit, but you'll never be a star
C Bm C Bm D7
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack Uh oh...
C G D
Ah surrender she flew
C G D
Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
Am Cm
Where autumn's birds are killing you
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