{"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":776646,"song":"The Charge","artist":"New Model Army","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11590946-the-charge-chords-by-new-model-army/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/776646?type=chord","rating":4.41097,"votes":12,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]   x2\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOur history speaks in thunder from a thousand village halls[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn blood and sweat and sacrifice, in honouring every call[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo the forces gathered against the thorn a-piercing in their side[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA brave new world is beckoning so the older world must die.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]   x4\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn the offices of the city, at all the tables of oak and power[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe snares are laid and baited for the approaching of the hour[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA hundred justifications and the presses are ready to roll[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe gateways to the nation they are firmly under control[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn, on, on, cried the leaders at the back[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWe went galloping down the blackened hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd into the gaping trap[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInto the valley of death rode the brave hundreds[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]   x2\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe called for some assistance from the friends that we had known[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut this is the 1980s and we were on our own[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe never felt like heroes or martyrs to a cause[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJust battle-weary soldiers in a bloody civil war[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn, on, on, cried the leaders at the back[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWe went galloping down the blackened hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd into the gaping trap[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInto the valley of death rode the brave hundreds[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]   x2\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThe massacre now is over and the order new enshrined[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile a quarter of the nation are abandoned far behind[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThe leaders offer the cliche words, so righteous in defeat[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut no one needs morality when there isn't enough to eat[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nThe unity bond is broken and the loyalty songs are fake[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D#m[/ch]\r\nI'll screw my only brother for even a glimpse at a piece of the cake[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe only cry in private here behind the shuttered glass[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F#7[/ch]                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen we think of the charge of this brigade, the severing of the past[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn, on, on, cried the leaders at the back[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWe went galloping down the blackened hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd into the gaping trap[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInto the valley of death rode the brave hundreds[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn, on, on, cried the leaders at the back[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWe went galloping down the blackened hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd into the gaping trap[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInto the valley of death rode the brave thousands[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOn, on, on, cried the leaders at the back[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWe went galloping down the blackened hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd into the gaping trap[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe bridges are burnt behind us and there's waiting guns ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInto the valley of death............ the brave thousands[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nBm   A   x2\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBm   A   x4\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBm    D     G   x2\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBm    D     G   x2\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["Bm","A","Em","D","F#7","G","C#m","G#m","D#m","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"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]}}}