Propagandhi – Todays Empires Tomorrows Ashes (Guitar)

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Chords

As arranged/played by The Magnificent Sevens in their cover. [Double-time chorus]
C             G              F                         C
  The tangled web they weave   spans from Pine to Ruby Ridge

            G             F
Way back to Shay's defeat   on up to Gufstafsen

C             G             F                            C
  Now cue the ass parade of dittoheads and commisars and pricks

                 G                F
To drown out the faintest hint of commie faggot heretics
[Chorus]
C               G           F
  The nail that   sticks up   gets hammered down

C              G         F
  The master's   finest,   his finest tools are found

C             G            F
  Slack-jawed   and placid   amidst the cacophony

C              G            F
  Of screaming   billboards   and Disney-fied history
[Verse]
G                         Am                  F
  Sometimes the ties that bind us are strange

           G
No justice shines upon the cemetery plots marked

Am                  F
Hampton, Weaver, or Anna Mae, where
[Chorus]
C         G         F
  Federal   bureaus  and fraternal orders

C                 G
  Have cast their   shadows

F
Permanent features built into these borders
[Instrumental break] G Am F C G Am F G Am F G [Bridge]
Am                         F     Am                      F
   But under cover of the,   the customary gap we find between

Am                                F
   History and truth, founding fathers

Am                                       F
Back with the rockets blinding red glare
The bombs bursting in air, one nation indivisible [Verse]
                      G
The truth is when the back country learned of ratification

    Am                          F
The people had a coffin painted black

    G
And solemnly borne in funeral procession

     Am                    F
They buried it deep in the earth as
[Chorus]
C           G         F
  An emblem   of the,   the disillusion

C            G           F
  Internment   of their,   their Publick Liberty

C              G            F                 C
  And someday,   somewhere,   today's empires   are

G            F
  Tomorrow's   ashes
[Outro] G Am F