The Handsome Family

Lake Geneva(Chords)

The Handsome Family

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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
 
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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
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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 E *********************************** | / Slide up ***********************************

Written by Brett Sparks/Rennie Sparks

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