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                           NO CHILDREN - Mountain Goats
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Tabbed by:  lostpanda
Email:  kylelostpanda@yahoo.com

Tuning:  standard
         capo on 4th

This is the way that I've seen John play it live every time I've seen them.

        
e|---4---2---2
B|---5---2---3
G|---6---3---2
D|---6---4---0
A|---4---4----
E|-------2----

         
---0---0---2--
---0---2---2--
---1---2---2--
---2---2---4--
---2---0---4--
---0-------2--

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---4-----x----
---4-----x----
---6-----6----
---6-----2----
---4-----0----
---------0----


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[Intro]

*C#m C#sus2 A (modified)*  F#  (x2)
  


During the intro, the chords surrounded by *'s are an optional way to simulate the piano part in the song. 
The main chord is C#m and the other two are played only once in fast succession. the strum pattern is
down, down up down up down, down, down with the last two down strums being the second two chords.

If you listen for the piano part in the song it's clear. When I play this song I replace all of the 
fills with this lick, because frankly, I think it sounds AMAZING.

[Verse]
             
I hope that ou

       
r few remainin

g friends
             
Give up on try

       
ing to save us
             
I hope we come

           
 up with a fai

lsafe plot
             
To piss off th

              
e dumb few tha

     
t forgave us
             
I hope the fen

       
ces we mended
             
Fall down bene

              
ath their own 


weight
             
And I hope we 

              
hang on past t

   
he last exit
             
I hope it's al

          
ready too late
             
And I hope the

              
 junkyard a fe

              
w blocks from 

     
here

Someday burns down
    
And I hope the

 rising black 

smoke carries 

me far away
              
And I never co

             
me back to thi

        
s town again

[Chorus]
             
In my life I h

      
ope I lie
         
And tell every

one you were a

 good wife
              
And I hope you

 
 die
             
I hope we both

      
 die

    (x2)
  


[Verse]
             
I hope I cut m

      
yself shaving 

tomorrow
             
I hope it blee

           
ds all day lon

g
             
Our friends sa

              
y it's darkest

   
 before the su

n rises
             
Well we're pre

              
tty sure they'

       
re all wrong
             
I hope it stay

          
s dark forever
             
I hope the wor

         
st isn't over
             
And I hope you

              
 blink before 


I do
             
I hope I never

     
 get sober
      
And I hope whe

n you think of

 me years down

 the line
    
You can't find

 one good thin

g to say
      
And I hope tha

t if I found t

he strength to

 walk out
              
You'd stay the

              
 hell out of m

  
y way

[Chorus]
             
I am drowning 

              
there is no si

      
gn of land
              
You are coming

      
 down with me

hand in unlova

ble hand
              
And I hope you

 
 die
             
I hope we both

     
 die

    (x2)
  


    (x2)