An Antidote for Strychnine chords by The Mountain Goats
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Intro 1
(A minor)
Verse 1
Dig around in the (A minor) garbage
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
Scrape a winter's worth
of salt deposits
From the rusty frame of my car
Ask the ex (F major) perts (E minor)
Maybe they'll know
(A minor)
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Verse 2
(A minor) Call up my teacher in Cambridge
See what he remembers
Throw white phosphorus
in the fireplace
Look for clues in the embers
Call the (F major) (E minor) hotline
Give them a phony last name
(A minor)
Verse 3
Try to find (D minor)
An antidote for (A minor) strychnine
Verse 4
Trying to find (D minor) (G major)
An antidote for (A minor) strychnine
Verse 5
(A minor)
Time's running short
Always seems to run shorter
Have some supplies sent
From up just past the northern border
Keep a line (F major) out (E minor)
To the people who take (G major) the long view (A minor)
Interlude 1
Verse 6
Only share my research (A minor)
With sick lab rats like me
Trapped behind the beakers
And the Erlenmeyer flasks
Cut off from the world,
I may not ever get free
But I may (F major) (E minor)
One day (A minor)
Verse 7
(A minor)
Trying to find (D minor)
An antidote for strychnine (A minor)
Verse 8
(A minor)
Trying to find (F major) (D minor) (G major)
An antidote for strych (A minor) nine
Interlude 2
(A minor) (B flat major)
Verse 9
(B flat major) So many suffer (D minor) ing from
the same affliction
(A minor) (D major) Coming up on
a breakthrough (D minor)
The clock's (E minor) ticking (G major)
(A minor) Dig down amongst my calculations
Check my map
Up there on the surface
Everybody's getting ready
for the bloodbath
Stem the tide, (F major) stem the tide (E minor)
They're calling down for
(G major) reinforcements (A minor)
Verse 10
(A minor)
Trying to find (D minor)
An antidote for strychnine (A minor)
Verse 11
(A minor)
Trying to find
(D minor) (G major) An antidote for strych
(A minor) nine
Outro 1
(A minor) (D minor) (A minor)
(E minor) (A minor)
An Antidote for Strychnine
The Mountain Goats
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