The Shins
New Slang

Carter; w/ 1 2 +   + 4 + (walk down to opening Am)

Intro: Am(x4) C F C G C Am G(x4)C C/G C C C/B

Am               C             F     C              G
Gold teeth and a curse on this town, were all in my mouth;
	 C            F            Am   G
Only, I don’t know how they got out, dear
Am           C        F         C             G
Turn me back into the pet, that I was when we met
      C       F            Am   G
I was happier then with no mind set

       Chorus
       G                  C         F    C            G
       And if you took to me like a gull takes to the wind
       G                    C	
       Well I’d jumped from my tree
           F   C               F           C
       And I’d danced like the king of the eyesores,
               F           C              G
       And the rest of our lives would’ve fared well

Am                 C          F            C            G
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries
	     C              F            Am   G
Hope it’s right when you die, old and bony
Am                 C                F           C
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, never should have 
          G
       Called
       C             F            Am  G
But my head’s to the wall and I’m lonely

	(Repeat Chorus)


Bridge
Am                C         F              C             G
God Speed all the bakers at dawn, may they all cut their thumbs
	     C          F                Am   G
And bleed into their buns, ‘till they melt away


            G         C                    F      C       G
I’m looking in on the good life I might be doomed n’er to find
          G        C                   F   C         G
Without a trust or flaming fields am I too dumb to refine
G                    C          F     C               F
And if you’d took to me like a, I’d a danced like the queen of 
          C
        the eyesores
        F          C             G
And the rest of my life would’ve fared well.

Outro: Am C F C G C Am G(x2) C