Lariat Chords
Lariat by Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, A, F, D and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Main Riff:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------5------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--5-5-7---7-5-7-------5------------5-5---7-5---5---------------------------|
A|----------------7-5-3---7-5-3-0--7-----7-----7-----------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C A F
Only a chariot could carry it
D F D F
Across this void
C A F D F D F
I wouldn’t jerry rig or candy coat your Latin kisses
G
You’re not what you aren’t
G
You aren’t what you’re not
G
You got what you want/You want what you got
F G
People look great when they shave
Don’t they?
C A F D F D F
We lived on Tennyson and venison and The Grateful Dead
C A F D F D F
It was Mudhoney summer, Torch of Mystics, Double Bummer
G
You’re not what you aren’t
G
You aren’t what you’re not
G
You got what you want
G
You want what you got
F G
Feels so great in the shade
C A F D F
A love like oxygen, so foxy then so terrific now
D F
On a jape I’m returning
C A
Bobby spinnin’ out
F
I was so messed up
D
You were drunk and high
F
Just a ramblin’ wreck
D F
Comin’ off the breaks to see what was shaking
Main Riff 2x
We grew up listening to the music from the best decade ever
Talkin’ about the A-D-Ds
We grew up listening to the music from the best decade ever
not really sure how it ends