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influence, and if you like Wire's "Pink Flag" album, you'll probably like "A
Anyway, this song just has one chord pattern, which is played once by itself
six more times under the vocals. No chorus, those crazy kids!
Here's the pattern. All the following are standard barre chords:
E  //  (12th fret)
B  //  (7th)
E  //   (12th)
C  //   (8th)
E  //   (12th)
B  //   (7th)
A  ////   (5th)
E   /      (open)
(Actually, the rhythm varies a little from chord to chord, and from bar to
[Intro]
E B
E C
E B
A B E
[Verse]
EGot a Rolls BRoyce
EIt's driving me Cmad
EI never Bthought aAbout BitE  
EGot a sBpace
EBetween my Ceyes
EI never Bknew abouAt itB  E  
[Verse 2]
ENo more wBays
ETo excavate Cyou
EThere's Bno two waAys aBbout Eit
EI think that's Ball
EThere is to Csay
ENothing Bmore abouAt it B  E  
[Outro]                      
The Eweather! The GleEather!
The wEeather! The lGeaEther!
The Eweather! The GleEather!
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Vertical Slum

by Swell Maps

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influence, and if you like Wire's "Pink Flag" album, you'll probably like "A

Anyway, this song just has one chord pattern, which is played once by itself

six more times under the vocals. No chorus, those crazy kids!

Here's the pattern. All the following are standard barre chords:

E // (12th fret)

B // (7th)

E // (12th)

C // (8th)

E // (12th)

B // (7th)

A //// (5th)

E / (open)

(Actually, the rhythm varies a little from chord to chord, and from bar to

[Intro]

E B

E C

E B

A B E

[Verse]

E B

Got a Rolls Royce

E C

It's driving me mad

E B A B E

I never thought about it

E B

Got a space

E C

Between my eyes

E B A B E

I never knew about it

[Verse 2]

E B

No more ways

E C

To excavate you

E B A B E

There's no two ways about it

E B

I think that's all

E C

There is to say

E B A B E

Nothing more about it

[Outro]

E G E

The weather! The leather!

E G E

The weather! The leather!

E G E

The weather! The leather!

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