The Diaz Brothers Chords
The Diaz Brothers by The Mountain Goats is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords C, Am, F, Em, G and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C Am F
verse 1
C Am F
Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line,
C Am Em F
Spend the wet night tracking visions through the pines.
G
Draw my arms into my hospital gown.
C F
See the sky open up and rain down,
G
Rain down.
C Am F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C Am F G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
verse 2
C Am F G
Hear my rivals on the western wind.
C Am Em F
Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.
G
Work by the Plutonian light.
C Am F
Forbidden rosary prayers all night,
G
All night.
C Am F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C Am F G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
verse 3
Dm Am
Beam of a flashlight,
Dm Am
All night in the woods.
Em C
Hunt us like dogs,
F G
And then string us up for good.
C Am F
Keep one step ahead of enemies.
C Am Em F
Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.
G
Lead us to the beach by our hands,
C F G
And bury us there in the sand.
C Am F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C Am F G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C Am F
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C Am F C
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.