Cotton Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

AmX 0 2 2 1 0 Gm3 5 5 3 3 3

Intro

C – A♯ – Dm – F – C (Play the C and Bb chords for 8 beats each, and the Dm and F

chords for just 4 beats each)

C This song is for the rats

A♯ Who hurled themselves into the ocean

 When they Dmsaw that the explosives in the cFargo hold

 Were jCust about to blow

C This song is for the soil

A♯ That's toxic clear down to the bedrock

 Where nDmo thing of consequence canF grow

 Drop your Cseeds there, let them go

  C Am F Am --> play for 4 beats each

Let them all go

 Let them all Cgo Am F Am C

C This song is for the people

A♯ Who tell their families that they're sorry

 For thDmings they can't and wFon't feel sorry foCr

C And once there was a desk

 And A♯now it's in a storage locker somewhere

 And this sDmong is for the stick pins and the cFottons

 I lCeft in the top drawer

 Let 'em all gCo Am F Am

 Let 'em all gCo Am F Am

Interlude

C Gm F C --> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times

C I wanna sing one for the cars

 That are A♯right now headed silent down the highway

 And it's Dmdark and there is nobody drFiving

 And soCmething has got to give

C I saw you waiting by the roadside

A♯ You didn't know that I was watching

Dm Now you knowF

C Let it all go

 Let 'em all gCo Am F Am

 Let it all goC Am F Am

Outro

C Gm F C --> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times.

*:

Strum the Am chord a few times and at the final strums release the index finger

from the B string and strum. Alternate between this and the normal Am 2 or 3

times. Listen to the song to get the hang of it