American Gothic chords by
David Ackles

N/A

Key: G major

Verse 1
E E 
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Am Am 
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Mrs.
Molly Jenkins sells
F#dim F#dim 4
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her wares in town
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Am Am 
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Saturdays, in the evening,
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Am Am 
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G G 
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when the farmhands come around
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F F 
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Dm Dm 
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And she sows all their names
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G G 
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in her gown
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Fsus4 Fsus4 
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Fm Fm 
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Ah, but is she      happy?
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Gm Gm 3
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No no no
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Ebsus4 Ebsus4 6
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She wants a better    home
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Eb Eb 6
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Fm Fm 
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and a better kind of  life
But how is she going to get
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the things she wants,
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Gm Gm 3
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Db Db 4
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The things she needs   as some
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poor wretch of a farmer's wife
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Gm Gm 3
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He trades the milk for booze
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And Molly wants new shoes
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D D 
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And as she snuggles down
With a stranger in some
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back of the barroom bed
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It's much too dark to the see the stranger
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Baug Baug 
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Am Am 
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So she thinks of shoes  instead
Old Man Horace Jenkins stays at home
to tend to his schemes
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Em Em 
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Am Am 
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Am Am 
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Sends for pictures of black stockings     on
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G G 
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G G 
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paper leg s with paper seams and    he drinks
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Until he drowns in his dreams
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Ah, but is he happy?
No, no, no
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He wants to be reborn
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to lead the pious life
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Bbm Bbm 
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But how's he going to going shed his
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boozy dreams   when he has to bear the cross of
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A wicked wife
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Gm Gm 3
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She claims to visit shows
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F F 
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And      he pretends that's where she goes
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And as he snuggles down to his reading
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in a half- filled marriage bed
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He's so ashamed of what he's reading
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B B 2
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Baug Baug 
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F F 
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that he gets blind- drunk in stead
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Am Am 
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Sunday breakfast with the
Jenkins
They break the bread and cannot speak
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She reads the rustling of his paper
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He reads the way her new
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shoes squeak
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Am Am 
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G G 
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And pray God to survive one more week
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Ah, but are they happy?
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Eb Eb 6
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You'd be surprised... between
the bed and the booze and the shoes
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They suffer least who suffer
what they choose

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