Water Tower chords by
The Mountain Goats

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Moving light

Verse 1
G G 
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s on an overhead map
C C 
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Have to be headed somewhere
G G 
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There's probably gonna be a
building burning in town
D D 
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When you smell smoke in the air
C C 
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Small hopes are seen to still
Em Em 
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be small ones
G G 
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When the hour grows late
And a body floating in a water tower is
D D 
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bound to take on weight
G G 
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Verse 2
Somebody comes bearing the standard
C C 
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Just when you need to see it held high
G G 
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You never miss your water
D D 
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Until you're parched,
riding home from the slaughter
C C 
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Em Em 
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Oracles are seen emerging
G G 
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from the northern mists
And a body floating in a water tower is
D D 
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G G 
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bound at the ankles and wrists

Verse 3

Bound at the ankles and wrists

Marks in the skin

From where the ropes have

been digging right in

Verse 4
G G 
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Men of legend built the cities of the prairie
C C 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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To rise from the horizon at  night
G G 
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Feel something bigger than me
D D 
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When I see them trapped in the headlight
C C 
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Em Em 
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Head east,  head north by northeast
G G 
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Get my bearing and know
That a body floating in a water tower
D D 
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G G 
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only has one way to go
D D 
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Float downstream

Verse 5

Let me float downstream

Floating downstream

Outro 1

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ChordsG Em D C

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