Frank Turner – Sons Of Liberty (Guitar)

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Song: Sons of Liberty Artist: Frank Turner Album: Poetry of the Deed Note: I think there's something going on in the verses before the D chord goes back to the E chord, but I can't quite pin it down. A-maj just doesn't sound right. VERSE 1
E                                               D
Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set

D                                                  E
without encountering agents of his state or government.

E                                                   D
But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land,

D                                              E
brought on by the hollow men, who did not understand

E                                                        D
that for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died

D                                                       E
to keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide,

E                                                       D
and that if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state,

D                                              E
we enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape.
BRIDGE F# B E B
   A
When they raise their hands up our lives to possess,

F#                    B       E             B        A
to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist.
VERSE 2
E                              D
Watt Tyler led the people in 1381

D                                               E
to meet the king at Smithfield and issue this demand:

E                                                    D
that Winchester’s should be the only law across the land,

D                                                     E
the law of old King Alfred's time, of free and honest men.

E                                                             D
Because the people then they understood what we have since forgot:

D                                               E
that governments will only work for its own benefit.

E                                                   D
And I’d rather stand up naked against the elements alone

D                                                 E
than give the hollow men the right to enter in my home.
BRIDGE F# B E B
   A
When they raise their hands up our lives to possess,

F#                     B     E              B        A
to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist.
SOLO: Chords: E - E E - E - E - D - E - E - D - A - E (x4) E CHORUS (First two times no guitar, guitar on third and fourth time)
E                            D         A        E
Stand up sons of liberty and fight for what you own.

E                            D            A        E
Stand up sons of liberty and fight, fight for your homes.
OUTRO
E                                                          D
So if ever a man should ask you for your business, or your name,

D                                                           E
tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same.

E                                                              D
Because a man who'd trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep

D                                                      E
doesn't deserve the both of them, and neither shall he keep.