Drive-By Truckers – Surrender Under Protest (Guitar)

Capo 3
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[Intro] A Am Em D Bm C G Verse 1:
           Am               Em   
From the comfort zone of history

        G                    D   
On the lips of trusted loved ones

        Bm              C              G    
To the wounded, fragile minds of angry youths

      Am          Em  
No sooner was it over

           G             D    
Than the memory made it nobler

        Bm              C                   G 
The selective means by which to point the view
[Chorus]
     Am         Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated

      Am          Em               D 
Surrender under protest if you must

  Am            Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated
A Am Em D Bm C G [Verse 2]
           Am               Em
If it's all you can remember

        G                    D
Then it's been that way forever

        Bm              C              G
And for six long generations it's been told

               Am            Em
But-among-the fallen was tradition

        G                    D
That tradition was the mission

               Bm              C              G
And that the wrongness of the sin was not the goal
[Chorus]
     Am         Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated

      Am          Em               D 
Surrender under protest if you must

  Am            Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated
A Em D A [Verse 3]
           Am               Em
Does the color really matter?

           Am               Em
On the face you blame for failure

        G              D              A
On the shamin' for a battle's losing cause

           Am               Em
If the victims and aggressors

           Am               Em
Just remain each others others

        G              D              A
And the instigators never fight their own
A Am Em D Bm C G [Chorus]
     Am         Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated

      Am          Em               D 
Surrender under protest if you must

  Am            Em      D   
Compelled, but not defeated

     Am          Em               D
Surrender under protest if you must

      Am          Em               D
Surrender under protest if you must
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