(Alternate the 'A' and 'B' string really fast along with the song for the verses) 


[Verso 1]
 
C 
Go and get your drugs, honey 
G               C 
Go and get your drugs 
C 
I am fond of those things too 
G               C 
Some of them so much 
C 
Give away my whole life to 'em 
G            C 
Give away my bed 
C 
Come about on some strange couch 
      G                   C 
Just wishing that I were dead 
C 
Ashley hitched from Houston 
        G             C 
She was raped in Abilene 
C 
Beaten with a bottle 
       G                    C 
As the night laid mute her screams 
C 
When she finally reached here 
        G             C 
She was happy as can be 
          C 
There's a bright light shining in the big blue sky 
       G                  C 
And I never know what it means 



[Refrão]
 
      Am                 Em            F             C 
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month 
Am           Em 
Heaven is a chandelier 
          F              C 
But don't all look up at once 



[Verso 2]

  C                            G           C 
I go down to the park to give away my cigarettes 
  C                            G               C 
I go down to the park where I sit and wait for death 
    C                              G              C 
But I can't wait forever with the breezes and the bums 
    C                                  G                C 
The soldiers came to shoot us down but Jesus jammed the guns 
             C                               G                C 
And when the bottles all were empty, when he called us to our feet 
   C                               G                  C 
He promised us salvation and some real nice things to eat 
        C                                   G               C 
We were good then 'til the morning when the daylight did us in 
       C                                                 G              C 
Oh the past it picked our pretty little pockets, it gets thirsty for revenge 



[Refrão]
 
      Am                 Em            F             C 
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month 
Am            Em                   F             C 
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once 
     Am                  Em           F             C 
Oh I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month 
 Am           Em                  F               C 
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once