Alkaline Trio - The Torture Doctor Chords & Tabs

Alkaline Trio
The Torture Doctor
My Shame Is True
2012 Epitaph Records

Key: C

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
C -   x32010
G -   320003
Am -  x02210
F -   133211
Em -  022000
G/B - x2x003


Intro: C--Am--G--F--


Verse 1:
    G
The torture 
C
doctor is in
Back here to 
Am
confess his sins
G
  Knowing damn well 
            F
he was dead wrong
G       C
  And I can't
believe my eyes
            Am
Trouble and regret
haunt my mind
             G
I'll let you take 
the whole thing 
down brick
   F            G
by brick Tonight


Refrain:
Em              F
  And there's a devil
              C   G/B
dancing in my head
Am
  As I'm hovering
 F            G
above your bed


Chorus 1:
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho We know
    F
how this story goes
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho The plot
   F
it thickens and grows
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho There's
        F
nothing left to hide
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho Down here
                 C--Am--G--F-
on the south side

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/alkaline_trio/the_torture_doctor_crd.html ]
Verse 2:
  G       C
I was the worst of my kind
          Am
I left me old life behind
        G
Can't believe I got
                F
away with it so long
   G   C
At the end of the day
         Am
There is nothing to say
G
  So tired of being
      F
wired wrong All my life


(Repeat Refrain)


Chorus 2:
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho We know
    F
how this story goes
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho The plot
   F
it thickens and grows
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho There's
        F
nothing left to hide
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho Down here
                 F-C-G--Am-Em-F-C-G--
on the south side
             F   C G Am Em F--G--
on the south side


Interlude: Am-C-G-- x2


Chorus 3:
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho We know
    F
how this story goes
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho The plot
   F
it thickens and grows
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho There's
        F
nothing left to hide
Am   C   G
  Hey, ho Down here
             C   Am G C Am
on the south side
F      G     C   Am G C Am
on the south side
F      G     C(hold)
on the south side