Color In Your Cheeks

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                             COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS - The Mountain Goats
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Tuning: Standard

The chords used in this song are 
mostly barre chords, but you can use
 pretty
much any variation of each chord 
that you want and it still sounds 
great.

[Verse 1]

C#m        G#        A          
  She came in on the red-eye to 
B
Dallas-Fort Worth.
E         G#       A         B
  All the way from sunny Taipei.
C#m        G#         A        B
  Skin the color of a walnut shell,
      E           G#       A     
And a baseball cap holding down 
           B
her black hair.
             A             B
And she came here after midnight.
E                          A
  The hot weather made her feel 
right at home.


[Chorus]

        E      A
Come on in, we haven't slept for 
weeks.
                   E          A   
Drink some of this, it'll put 
             B
color in your cheeks.


[Verse 2]

Continues after the ad
C#m        G#          A    B
  He drove in from Mexicali no worse
 for wear.
E          G#   A        B
  Money to burn, time to kill, but
C#m    G#      A              B
  Five minutes looking in his eyes 
and
         E              G#        
  We all knew he was broken pretty
     A          B              A
 bad, so we gave him what we had.
                              B
We cleared a space for him to sleep 
in,
               E
And we let the silence that's our 
trademark
A
Make its presence felt.


[Chorus]

        E      A
Come on in, we haven't slept for 
weeks.
                   E          A   
Drink some of this, it'll put 
             B
color in your cheeks.


[Interlude]

C#    G#    A    B
E           B


[Verse 3]

C#m         G#        A   
  They came in by the dozens, 
    B              E
walking or crawling.
                G#      A
Some were bright-eyed,
          B
Some were dead on their feet.
E          G#           A       
  And they came from Zimbabwe, 
       B          E
Or from Soviet Georgia,
           G#             A       
East Saint Louis, or from Paris, 
          B               A
or they lived across the street.
But they came, and when they'd 
B
finally made it here,
           E                       
It was the least that we could do 
  A
to make our welcome clear.


[Chorus]

        E      A
Come on in, we haven't slept for 
weeks.
                   E           
Drink some of this, this'll put 
 A                B
color in your cheeks.


[Other]

E            A
E            A
E            B
C#m    G#    A    B    (x3)
E