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If I Was A Tidal Wave by Matthew Good
If I Was A Tidal Wave
Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Tuning: Half Step down
Capo on the third fret
Chords:
C (x32010)
Cmaj9 (020010)
Am (x02210)
G (320013)
Cadd11 (x33010)
Gmaj (320033)
Gsus2 (300233)
*Every time Am is played in the verses/intro/outro hammer on the b string*
Intro: C Cmaj7 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*0013 00*0*013 the
stars are around the notes focused on.
Verse:
C Cmaj7 Am G
The Saudis are ever our friends and our allies
C Cmaj7 Am G
The President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanai
C Cmaj7 Am
And across the street a mother sleeps with her baby''''s ghost
G C Cmaj7 Am G*
Wrapped in pink and spotlights
C Cmaj7 Am G
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
C Cmaj7 Am G
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
C Cmaj7 Am G
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails
C Cmaj7 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) Gmaj Gsus2
Id be first against the wall
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (incorporate C lead in)
C Cmaj7 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) Gmaj Gsus2
Id wash this whole place clean
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (in demo this is the \\"ooooh\\" part)
outro:
C Cmaj7 Am G*
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