Levellers – Is This Art (Guitar)

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I don't consider myself anything more than a competent guitarist, so it's rare when I see that a song I is not posted, so here goes. The intro and between verse part is merely a hard Em/C strum, four measures per. If you know the song, know the rhythm. [Intro] Em C Em C [Verse 1]

     Em
they took me to the battlefield

C
saw the mushroom clouds, said

Em
"i can see the colours even

C
when my head is bowed" they

Em
showed me the destruction, the

C
slaughter a la carte

Am                
isn't nature wonderful, 

G  D             Em
     but is this art?

[Interlude] Em C Em C [Verse 2]

     Em
they took me to the hospital

    C
and pulled aside the sheet,

      Em
said "look at that pulsating,

     C
just listen to the beat"

Em
showed me the incision

     C
then took away my heart

Am                  
isn't nature wonderful, 

G  D             Em
     but is this art?

[Interlude] Em C Em C [Verse 3]

     Em
they took me to the scientist,

 C
opened up a phial

     Em
said "this is only chickenpox

C
and rhino bile."

Em
showed me what it did to mice

    C
and this is just the start.

Am                  
isn't nature wonderful, 

G  D             Em
     but is this art?

[Solo] Em C Em C [Verse 4]

     Em
they took me to the tenement

C
kicked down the door

    Em
said have you seen the copulation

C
practised by the poor

     Em
we select the ones to breed

     C
then we reject the part

Am                  
isn't nature wonderful, 

G  D             Em
     but is this art?

[Outro] Em C Em C