Anti-Flag – Tar And Sagebrush (Guitar)

Capo 7
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

G
If you utter a sound or make a move, we'll kill you

G
Then they gathered around me

C
One man took my right arm

G
And another man took my left

D
When the third man grabbed the front of my coat

G
Then thrown in to an automobile we go
Chorus:
C                            A
Oh I wish I, I could describe

                   G
The terror in that 20 mile ride.

C                            A
Oh I wish I, I could describe

                  G
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

G
In an auto with six man and a chauffeur

G
Yeah these Christian patriots

C
They put fingers in my eyes and nose

G
As they subjected me to torture

D
Yeah the torture that a god fearing man

G
Is capable of conceiving.
Chorus. Bridge:
G
You won't kiss the American flag

C
Well by god we'll make you

A
We'll ram it down your throat

G
Sing the Star Spangled Banner with feeling

G
They put their autos together

G
So the lamp set a sickly stage light

C
Fourteen defenders of this country

G
All commanding me to undress

D
They poured tar over my body and hair

G
In the absence of feathers they rubbed sagebrush instead
Chorus. Outtro:
C                        A
My suffering was terrible.

                         G G  G
But my greatest pain was over you.