New Model Army - Ballad gitar akorları

"Ballad" by New Model Army (from the album "The Ghost Of Cain")
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Transcribed by: Juergen Bohn 


Chords throughout the song:

Verses:   | Am Am  | Am-D Am-D | Am-C Am-C | Am-D Am-D |

Special:  | C  E   | Bb Am  |
          | C  E   | Bb Am  | G G  | 

[Verse 1]
When they look back at us and they write down their history     Am   Am
What will they say about our generation?                        Am-D Am-D
We're the ones who knew everything still we did nothing         Am-C Am-C
Harvested everything, planted nothing                           Am-D Am-D

[Verse 2]
Well we live pretty well in the wake of the goldrush            Am   Am
Floating in comfort on waves of our apathy                      Am-D Am-D
Quietly knowing away at Her body                                Am-C Am-C
Until we mortgage the future, bury our children                 Am-D Am-D

[Special 1]
Storehouses full with the fruits we've been given               C    E
We send off the scragends to suckle the starving                Bb   Am
But still we can't feed this strange hunger inside              C    E 
Greedy, restless and unsatisfied                                Bb   Am
                                                                G    G 
								
[Verse 3]
I was never much one for the great "big bang" theory            Am   Am  
Going out in a blaze of suicidal glory                          Am-D Am-D
Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours                    Am-C Am-C
Just stupid and petty, unworthy of power...                     Am-D Am-D

[Special 2]
Just a little leak here and a small error there                 C    E  
Another square mile poisoned forever                            Bb   Am	
A series of sad and pathetic little fizzles                     C    E 	
And out go the lights, never to return                          Bb   Am	
                                                                G    G 	

[Verse 4]							
The affair it is over, the passion is dead                      Am   Am  
She stares at us now with ice in Her eyes                       Am-D Am-D
But we turn away from these bitter reproaches                   Am-C Am-C
And take up distractions to forget what we're doing             Am-D Am-D

[Verse 5]
Well I stand on these hills and I watch Her at night            Am   Am  
A thousand square miles, a million orange lights                Am-D Am-D
Wounded and scarred, She lies silent in pain                    Am-C Am-C
Raped and betrayed in the cold acid rain                        Am-D Am-D

[Outro]
And I wish and I wish                                           C
And I wish and I wish                                           E
We could start over again                                       Bb   Am
Yes I wish and I wish                                           C
And I wish and I wish                                           E     
We could win back Her love once again...                        Bb   Am
                                                                G   (G)
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Plucking scheme by Martin Bohn.

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(Non-obvious) Chords:

  Am-D        Am-C          Am
X==========   X==========   X========== 
| | | | 1 |   | | | | 1 |   | | | | 1 |
|-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|
| | B 3 | |   | | | 3 | |   | | B 3 | |
|-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|
| | | | | |   | B | | | |   | | | | | | 
|-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|   |-|-|-|-|-|
6 5 4 3 2 1   6 5 4 3 2 1   6 5 4 3 2 1   

Easy plucking instructions: 
B stands for Bass note (bass tone).

Play bass tone string with thumb first, then the 
3rd string with the index finger and afterwords the 2nd string
with the middle finger, 
repeating this sequence over and over again while singing...

While the thumb string varies as shown above, the other two
strings are fixed.