• 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: 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 *
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