• Song:

    If I Was A Tidal Wave

  • Artist:

    Matthew Good

Tuning: Half Step down
Capo on the third fret



*Every time Am is played in the verses/intro/outro hammer on the b string*

Intro: C C7M Am G *
*C lead in* close to the end of each G remove top two fingers and play a string on the 
3rd fret then open, one strum each, just as a lead in back to C. 0*3*0033 00*0*033 the 
stars are around the notes focused on.


Verse:
     C        C7M     Am              G
The Saudis are ever our friends and our allies
    C              C7M               Am              G
The President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanai
      C                 C7M                  Am
And across the street a mother sleeps with her baby's ghost
G                     C        C7M Am G *
Wrapped in pink and spotlights


C          C7M      Am               G
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
     C                 C7M           Am                G
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
C            C7M               Am              G
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails
     C        C7M Am G
 and goodbyes


Chorus:
    Am               C     G
Well my name is propaganda
       Am                  C    G
And my mamas pain is propaganda
C    G     Am
If I was a tidal wave
    C     G    Cadd11
Id let the Union fall
   C    G     Am
Ya if I was a tidal wave
      C     G           Cadd11*(hammer B ) C *(hammer 
B ) G G9
Id be first against the wall

Cadd11* C * G G9  (incorporate C lead in)
C C7M Am G *


2nd Verse: same as first
Back in 1980 Mayor Young he sent the key
To the city of Detroit to praise the best of enemies
Who shook hands with devil, now he runs the DOD
And spends lives

If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails and goodbyes

Chorus:
C    G     Am
If I was a tidal wave
      C       G       Cadd11
From coast to coast Id scream
C     G     Am
If I was a tidal wave
   C        G            Cadd11*(hammer b) C *(hammer 
B ) G G9
Id wash this whole place clean

Cadd11* C* Gmaj G9 (in demo this is the "ooooh" part)

outro:
C C7M Am G *
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