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Song title:      Patient Zero
Original Album:	 Mental Illness

Words and Music by Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton
Copyright © 2017 Aimee Mann / SuperEgo Records
Published by SuperEgo

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 2. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.

You're counting four strums to the bar quite quickly, which is
why the bars tend to look close together.



INTRO:
Chords:
A   x02220    G   320033
Em  022000    C/G 332010


[play: 4/4| A | Em | C/G | G | C/G | % | % | % |]



VERSE1:
Chords:
G    320003
C/G  332010
Em   022000


    | G               | C/G         | Em  | %
They  served you cham - pagne like a  hero

        | C/G           | G           | Em | %
When you  landed someone  carried your  bag

    | G           | C/G           | Em  | %
From  here on out,  you're Patient  Zero

        | C/G          | G           | Em | %
Smelling  ether as they  hand you the  rag



CHORUS1:
Notes:
Sung slower than the verses but you're strumming just as quickly.
Listen to the recording.

Chords:
C/G  332010    Am  x02210
G    320003    Em  022000
D    xx0232


| C/G      | G        | %              | D
    Life is  good, you  look around and  think,

           | C/G             | G
"I'm in the  right neighbour - hood"

    | D         | %         | C/G
But,  honey, you  just moved  in.

       | G        | %           | D              | Am | Em | C/G
Life is  grand and  wouldn't you  like to have it  go   as   planned,

| Am | Em | C/G    | %
  Go   as   planned



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G    320003
C/G  332010
Em   022000


| G         | C/G        | Em   | %
  Hip hip hoo-ray, hocus - pocus

         | C/G          | G              | Em | %
With some  magic you can  fly through the  air

   | G              | C/G        | Em
But  when you're the  guy pulling  focus

         | C/G            | G               | Em
There are  people who will  wish you weren't  there



[repeat CHORUS]



BRIDGE:
Chords:
D   xx0232    G   320003
Am  x02210    Em  022000


  | D                  | %                        | Am   
Go  west, young man, go  west, take a real screen - test.

                  | %
Doesn't count as a  job well done


   | D                         | %              | Am
The  locusts had their day, the  suckers pay and  pay

                            | %                    | G
Carmine Stern would probably  pull that trigger for  fun

                      | %
And in the hills where  all the sunshine


| Em                  | %
  Constant companions, (constant companions)

| G
  Close enough to almost touch the

| Em                  | %
  lights of the canyon (lights of the canyon)

   | G             Em
The  lights of the canyon



VERSE3:
Chords:
G   320003
C   x32010
Em  022000


   | G            | C/G     | Em
The  news filtered  over the  transom

      | C/G          | G          | Em
That a  villain ended  up with the  part


   | G             | C/G         | Em
You  paid your res - pects like a  ransom

    | C/G            | G              | Em
To a  moment that was  doomed from the  start



[repeat CHORUS]



OUTRO:
Chords:
G   320003
Em  022000


| G                       | %
    And in the hills where  all the sunshine

| Em                 | %
  Constant companions (constant companions)

| G                                
  Close enough to almost touch the


| Em                  | %
  lights of the canyon (lights of the canyon)

   | %                    | %
The  lights of the canyon,  lights of the canyon,

   | G             Em         | G            | Em
The  lights of the canyon, the  lights of the  canyon