• Song:

    Chump Change

  • Artist:

    New Pornographers

  • Album:

    Electric Version

New Pornographers- Chump Change (Dan Bejar)

Intro- (Bar Chords: slide up for the changes, use hammer on's for the sus2 chords) E,
Bsus2/B, Asus2/A, Bsus2/B (x2)(Some "oo-oo's" come in on the second time and
continue throughout the verses. It plays like this in every intro before the
verses except the 'oo's' are sung everytime.)

Verse 1
E (022100@1)                                Bsus2/B                Asus2/A       
Stole a page from your book, and a line from your page, and flew into a
        Bsus2/B
lesbian rage..

Chorus 1
        F#m (244222@1)            G#m (133111@4)                ACursing (x02220@1)mine and my own..rotten luck, another nude descends the staircase
       Bto (x2444x@1)get fucked up...

Verse 2 (intro chords x2)
E (022100@1)                    Bsus2/B          Asus2/A       Bsus2/B
A city scene, darkness falls, now skate hard down the gallery walls,

Chorus 2
              F#m (244222@1)                     G#m (133111@4)               A (x02220@1)                BExplore (x2444x@1)those themes, I've heard your work's informed by queens, so is mine now

Verse 3 (intro chords X2)
E (022100@1)                          Bsus/B                        Asus/A
There's a plague on, there's a rat-tailed ensemble burying all of our
             Bsus2/B
heads in the sand...

Chorus 3
F#m (244222@1)                  G#m (133111@4)           F#m, G#mThe (133111@4)saints and a desert use their hands (?) (x2)
    F#m (244222@1)     G#m (133111@4)          A (x02220@1)                G#mNow (133111@4)wipe that look from your face, the world is that which is the case..

Verse 4 (ties in from chorus 3)
    A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)                E (022100@1)             AIts (x02220@1)okay to be seen, dont dethrone the drama queen, just for putting
     E (022100@1)           Beverybody (x2444x@1)in their place..

*Repeat intro chords (x2)

*Repeat Verse 3 (with no sus2 chords), Chorus 3, Verse 4, then go back and start
from "Now wipe that look.." through Verse 4 into the outro verse...

Outro Verse- A E A E A E B (x2)
A (x02220@1) E (022100@1)             A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)            AGo, (x02220@1)dont stay, just throw it all away, there is you,
    E (022100@1)            B (x2444x@1)      A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E B (x2444x@1)and then there was your body..............(x3)

-tabbed by John Baer (NP's ROCKED the Black Cat!! July 13th)

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