An Antidote for Strychnine chords by The Mountain Goats

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
Dig around in the garbage
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
Scrape a winter's worth
of salt deposits
From the rusty frame of my car
F 
Em 
Ask the experts
Maybe they'll know
Am 

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Verse 2

Call up my teacher in Cambridge

See what he remembers

Throw white phosphorus

in the fireplace

Look for clues in the embers

Call the hotline

Give them a phony last name

Verse 3

Try to find

An antidote for strychnine

Verse 4

Trying to find

An antidote for strychnine

Verse 5
Am 
Time's running short
Always seems to run shorter
Have some supplies sent
From up just past the northern border
F 
Em 
Keep a line out
G 
Am 
To the people who take the long view

Interlude 1

Verse 6
Am 
Only share my research
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
F 
Em 
But I may
Am 
One day

Verse 7

Trying to find

An antidote for strychnine

Verse 8

Trying to find

An antidote for strychnine

Interlude 2

Verse 9
Bb 
Dm 
So  many suffering from
the same affliction
Am 
D 
Coming up on
Dm 
a breakthrough
Em 
G 
The clock's ticking
Am 
Dig down amongst my calculations
Check my map
Up there on the surface
Everybody's getting ready
for the bloodbath
F 
Em 
Stem the tide, stem the tide
They're calling down for
G 
Am 
reinforcements