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Gotham

Animal Collective

RockMedium for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
D××
C×
Bm×
Am×
G

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Em 
Any way I look at it 
    D 
I still don't see the full of it 
      C 
The whole thing's built in parts 
              Bm 
When we're attached we have our little bits 
     Am                                D 
And some of them still linger in the autumn 
                 Am 
You like your summers hot 
                   D 
When I get cold I like to have a winter then 
 
Em                           D 
Many happy people woke and cried 
 
Hey did you witness it 
     C                             Bm 
You wake up on that snowy day when no one is prepared for it 
           Am                              D 
When the little boys got employed by the powder 
                 Am                         D 
They get their twenty dollars frozen on a counter 
 
did I scream then? 
 
(I will keep trying into the night that's passing through light) 
 
C             D 
Ahhhh, what were we singing? 
C         D                     Am 
Ahhhh, I can't believe this goodbye 
 
Am                D 
My choice to be there on time 
     Am                    D 
It's not my choice to be there on time 
     Am                    D 
It's not my choice to be there on time 
     Am                    D                       Am 
It's not my choice to be there on time ahhhh ahhhhhahh 
 
               D 
I can't let it go 
 
         Bm           D    Am 
And the thing about being apart 
        C             Bm        Am 
Is you just let life give you denial 
     Em                D           Am 
It's not like you're given these feelings 
     Bm        Am           G    Em 
all just set adrift in the mind 
 
         Bm           D    Am 
And the thing about being apart 
        C             Bm        Am 
Is you just let life give you denial 
     Em                D           Am 
It's not like you're given these feelings 
     Bm        Am           G     
all just set adrift like a kite 
 
             Am                                    D 
But is your ficus fine, did you give it too much water? 
         Am                                   D 
Is your ficus fine did you give it too much water? 
       Am                                   D 
Is my ficus fine did you give it too much water? 
            Am                             D 
Like your summer's hot and winter cold, goodbye my New York 
 
(I will keep trying, you will keep trying into the night that's passing through light) 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · D · C · Bm · Am · G

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.