Harvest Day

Words and Music by Raccoon

as recorded on Nature’s Cathedrals

 

The chord progressions to this song are: 

·        G, D, C, D

·        G, Em, C, D

·        G, D, C, D*

 

*Note: This D is done by doing an open C chord and then moving it up two frets which is sort of a D chord with open G and open high E string notes. I guess this would make the chord technically a Dsus4add9 (the sus4 is the G note and the add9 is the E note).

 

G                     D                                C                              D

I don’t like no 'lectric guitar, I like the way that my acoustic sounds

       G                             Em                      C                    D

And I’m gonna charge ten bucks a show the way they do uptown

 

G                     D                                                     C                         D

I’m not here to mess with your head - I don’t wear no spandex, day glow tights

G                          Em                             C                     D

All I need’s a fast, free cold beer and I’ll sing this shit all night

G                        D               C                             D

My music may be drivel but I got nothin' better to do

            G                       Em                C                                     D

Than to sit here until I’m arrested and sing these stupid songs for you

 

G                          D               C                D

I don’t make much sense but I never really try

         G                                    Em

I like sittin' in the middle of my merry go round

C                               D                   G

Watchin' the world go by and by and by

 

D

By

              C   D*

Bye bye

 

G       Em      C       D

 

G                       D                                 C                      D

If I’m walkin' by your front yard I might think it’s pretty neat

            G                         D                                C                    D

You got plastic covers for all your trees and your grass is all concrete

G                          D                   C                        D

You paint it pretty colors but you still wake up with fear

             G                            Em                 C                         D

That the pretty colors might fade away in a hundred thousand years

G                         D                    C                     D

You can beat your mama but you cannot hurt her soul

      G                              Em                            C                           D

The two of you are stuck together and she ain’t never gonna let you go

 

G                   D                         C                       D

In the distant future, when your time is long since past

      G                Em                               C                               D

My spirit will be laughin' as the farmer’s plow cuts across your ass

G                         D                       C                     D

And my friend the farmer, when he dies his work is done

      G                     Em             C                              D

Cuz every good old farmer was once a good farmer’s son

G                    D                     C                          D

Don’t fear the thunder, let the lightning light your way

       G                              Em                  C         D         G

The biggest farmer in the galaxy says it’s almost Harvest Day

 

D   C   D*

 

       G                              Em                  C        D          G   C   G

The biggest farmer in the galaxy says it’s almost Harvest Day