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: C5 C5 A5 G5 *
*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:
C5 C5 A5 G5
The Saudis are ever our friends and our allies
C5 C5 A5 G5
The President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanai
C5 C5 A5
And across the street a mother sleeps with her baby's ghost
G5 C5 C5 A5 G5 *
Wrapped in pink and spotlights
C5 C5 A5 G5
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
C5 C5 A5 G5
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
C5 C5 A5 G5
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails
C5 C5 A5 G5
and goodbyes
Chorus:
A5 C5 G5
Well my name is propaganda
A5 C5 G5
And my mamas pain is propaganda
C5 G5 A5
If I was a tidal wave
C5 G5 Cadd11
Id let the Union fall
C5 G5 A5
Ya if I was a tidal wave
C5 G5 Cadd11*(hammer B5 ) C5 *(hammer
B5 ) G5 G5
Id be first against the wall
Cadd11* C5 * G5 G5 (incorporate C5 lead in)
C5 C5 A5 G5 *
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:
C5 G5 A5
If I was a tidal wave
C5 G5 Cadd11
From coast to coast Id scream
C5 G5 A5
If I was a tidal wave
C5 G5 Cadd11*(hammer b) C5 *(hammer
B5 ) G5 G5
Id wash this whole place clean
Cadd11* C* Gmaj G5 (in demo this is the "ooooh" part)
outro:
C5 C5 A5 G5 *