Propagandhi – Fixed Frequencies (Guitar Intro Tab)

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************************************ The recorded version from 2005's POTEMKIN CITY LIMITS is in standard tuning, but if you hear a live version, you may notice you can't play along, because Propagandhi started tuning down a half step right after releasing this album. This definitely a simiplified chord chart they use at least one interesting chord for the picking pattern in the intro and interludes, notated here as just a C chord. I believe the chord in question is either a Csus2(#11) or a C(#11 add9). Also, they move between majors and minors while playing the A and B chords, but those changes are so quick and subtle, (virtually) nobody is going to notice. I won't be the least bit offended if someone comes along and corrects my simplified version, but you should get by just fine if your main purpose is to sing along and emphasize the vocals and lyrics, as is mine. I'm but simple country folk, but I thought a nice, clean chord sheet for the novice player would be welcomed by the interwebs. ************************************ [Intro] Em D G C [Verse 1]
     Em Bm  C         D           Bm            C
Here in the land that Abraham was promised to receive

                 Am B C    D          Bm         C
We listen to you catechize  from your pulpit overseas

    D                  B
You mourn the proof of our barbarity
[Interlude] Em D G C [Verse 2]
Em  Bm   C        D           Bm                C
Dry your eyes, oh Pharisee, a settler's cant we both speak

   Am   B    C                 D                      Bm           C
We both read from the same old played out scripts and hum familiar tunes

      D            B
Fixed frequencies, stuck in locking grooves
[Bridge]
Em  F  Em    
         We both profess

Em  F  Em    
         noble intent

Em  F  Em    
         As we civilize

Em  G  D    
         human impediments

Em  F  Em    
         If your hands are clean

Em  F  Em    
         then noblesse oblige

Em  F  Em    
         Wipe those "who me?" looks off of your

Em  G  D    
         faces and concede

Em   Bm   C   
           Our designs separated by

D   Bm   C   
           Nothing more than place and time

A   B   C   
           Different scenes, same crimes
D B
Em            D                G
Pray, let him without sin cast the first statues of

C   C   C   
        Former rogues turned folk heroes

Em   
     Your forefathers hung

C                                     B
     Don't lecture me about plundered soil

Em   D   C   
     While you loaf upon your father's spoils

C
We want nothing more than what you already have:

  Em                  D          C
A comforting set of exculpatory "facts"
Myth of an empty land and a conquest so complete
Em                  D                      C
  We can pull these tanks from our streets and
Hand the loose ends over to
Em              D                Em
bureaucrats and become just like you
[Ending Riff] Em F#m G Em G A Em F#m G
G
Lounging carefree in
Em F#m G Em G A Em F#m G
G
cafes, absolved from sin
Em F#m G Em G A Em F#m G
G
Human grenades, entre nous

    D        B      C
How did your desert bloom?