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Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing
## NOTE: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
CAPO: 7th Fret
INTRO: C  
                                       ~ ~ 
Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
AmParty hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
FLook at all the lies it takes, the job of making Ckings
                                                  ~ ~ 
You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
Put it Amon the television screens, they'll believe it
It's a Dm7beautiful thingF  
It's a beautiful thCing
                                                ~ ~ 
We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
While the Amprofiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
The Fpress sings another chorus, “Let Freedom CRing”
                                            ~ ~ 
We send our boys away to come home in parts
BeAmlieve the lies with all our hearts
It's a Dm7beautiful thingF  
It's a beautiful thCing
BRIDGE:
DisFsension is a song only fools and traitors Csing
Just Flook at all the benefits that global economy Gbrings
                                   C~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
The Am20th century's dead and gone
It's a Dm7beautiful thingF  
It's a beautiful thCing
INSTRUMENTAL:     C      Am      F         C      Am    Dm7    F  C  
                                      ~ ~ 
I live in a land of hope and betrayal
I Amget up each morning and try to tell the tale
And Fso, until my dying day, whatever fate may Cbring
                                       ~ ~ 
A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
SomeAmhow I still believe in the goodness of man
It's a Dm7beautiful thingF  
It's a beautiful thCing
It's a Dm7beautiful thingF  
It's a beautiful thCing

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Beautiful Thing

by Slaid Cleaves

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 7 (as written in this song)

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Dm7

Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing

## NOTE: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##

CAPO: 7th Fret

INTRO:

~ ~

Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore

Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores

F C

Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings

~ ~

You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it

Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it

Dm7 F

It's a beautiful thing

~ ~

We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us

While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus

F C

The press sings another chorus, “Let Freedom Ring”

~ ~

We send our boys away to come home in parts

Believe the lies with all our hearts

Dm7 F

It's a beautiful thing

BRIDGE:

F C

Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing

F G

Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings

~ ~

Today we sing the gilded age's song

The 20th century's dead and gone

Dm7 F

It's a beautiful thing

C Am F C Am Dm7 F C

INSTRUMENTAL:

~ ~

I live in a land of hope and betrayal

I get up each morning and try to tell the tale

F C

And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring

~ ~

A dark age looms, there's evil at hand

Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man

Dm7 F

It's a beautiful thing

Dm7 F

It's a beautiful thing

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