{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":404907,"song":"Presidents Dead","artist":"Okkervil River","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11558601-presidents-dead-chords-by-okkervil-river/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/404907?type=chord","rating":4.71959,"votes":20,"content":"The President's Dead is a song that Okkervil River has performed live in concert, but \r\nyet to record. It is pretty simple and the lyrics are amazing.\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe President’s dead, the radio said[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDear friends is it not so horrible?[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Em[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA shock to my heart like a knife right through bread,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe newspaper said, the President’s dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe sea doesn’t dry and the sky doesn’t split,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut friends it just seems so wrong, don’t it?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA shout from the crowd and a shot to the head,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe President’s lying on the tarmac dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe’s lying face down with those black dress day gents,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGuns drawn running around in the early o-bits,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSay he was a good man, you can’t argue with that,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNot today you can’t, not now you can’t.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn the media tent, where they spin and they slant,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey just foam at the mouth and they chomp at the bit,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThose bloodsuckers can wait, ‘till those vultures cool it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe radio said, the President’s dead,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd let’s imagine the day, let’s say 30 years in,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHow somebody will say what were you doing when,[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn a beautiful day I was waking up and[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was lying in bed with my girlfriend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the eggs on the plate and the bacon hissing[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the coffee was great, these was spring on the wind,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you ever lived through a day where the littlest things,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nin the littlest ways, made you feel you were blest.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd if you died right then, well you know you’d be missed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut there’s no better way to cease to exist,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you wouldn’t feel sad and you wouldn’t resist,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBecause you knew what you had and were thankful for it,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn your own little way, well I’m a small quiet man,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI’ve got no wars to win, I don’t have a big plan,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I love my new place and I love my old friends,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I scrimp and I save and one day I’ll have kids,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI can truthfully say that my day was like that,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\n‘till the radio playing on the stand by the bed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfired out this report and in three words they said,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike three shots to my head, the President’s dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe President’s dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe President’s dead.[/tab]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\nThat's it! This is my first tab, so I hope it works.","plain_text":"The President's Dead is a song that Okkervil River has performed live in concert, but \nyet to record. It is pretty simple and the lyrics are amazing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD A Em G\nD A Em G\n\nThat's it! This is my first tab, so I hope it works.","chords":["D","A","Em","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}