(intro)
D G Em7 D G Em7
D G Em7
Velvet pants and a big top hat
D G Em7
It's a little hot to be dressed like that
D G Em7
Down near the war memorial he's propped
C G
In a big balck cape and twelve hole docs
D G Em7 D G Em7
Now he almost made his auntie faint
When he stopped at the chemist for some black nail paint
She just stood there hands on hips
He said "Aunty Em it'll match my lips"
(chorus)
A
I heard his mother and his father say
F#m
"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
G G/F# Em7
But don't you try and bring him down
C G
He's a lonely goth in a country town
D G Em7 D G Em7
Now his father's family settled here
In another time, it was a long gone year
He knows about them all you see
They're buried at the local cemetery
There's a girl in the next town that he knows
They met at a Marilyn Manson show
And they write letters and they swap spells
They'll be together one day in hell
(chorus)
A
I heard his mother and his father say
F#m
"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
G G/F# Em7
And what will the blokes at the bottom pub say
G G/F# Em7
And the women down at her CWA?
G G/F# Em7
But don't you try and bring him down
C G
He's a lonely goth in a country town
D G Em7 D G Em7
F#m
To dress like that around here you guess
G
That he likes being close to death
A
He doesn't like footy, he doesn't like cars
A
He didn't mind Coppolla's Dracula
One day he'll be rid of this place
Run like mascara down a pale white face.
He doesn't believe in a god above
But you could never doubt his mother's love
(chorus)
A
I heard his mother and his father say
F#m
"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
G G/F# Em7
And what will the blokes at the top pub say
G G/F# Em7
And the women down at her CWA?
G G/F# Em7
But it's eye of newt and it's tounge of bat
G G/F# Em7
As he walks around town with his mum's black cat
G G/F# Em7
And if you'd been through all he's been through
G G/F# Em7
Then you'd turn white and you'd frown too
G G/F# Em7
He's the bravest boy behind the frown
C G D G Em7
Of a lonely goth in a country town
C G D G Em7
He's evoked the wrath of a country town
C G D G Em7
He's the only one for miles around
F#m G
It's a shearing town
F#m
Or a mining town
G D
A quite little country town
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Tabbed: Damien Murtagh