Jeff Rosenstock - Festival song
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Tuning: E A D G B E
The song uses a baritone guitar for the most part, but I'm just going to write down you'd play it with a
standard guitar. Also, this is a dumbed down version, too. In the verses, he plays a riff while playing F5
power chord with the bottom note and the same goes for the Bb5 power chord. So just experiment with those
till it sounds like the songs riff.
[Chords]
F5 F5* Fmaj7 Fsus2 Bb5 Gm7 Bbmaj7 D5 D#5 C#5 C5
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------8----------------------------------
G|----10-----9------12----------x------------7----8-----6-----5----
D|-3--10-----10-----10-----8----x-----7------7----8-----7-----5----
A|-3--8------8------8------8----8-----8------5----6-----4-----3----
E|-1-----------------------6----6-----6----------------------------
So, yeah, here's the song.
Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song
[Intro]
F5 Fmaj7 Fsus2 F5
Bb5 Gm7 Bb5 Bbmaj7
[Verse]
F5*
It feels completely ridiculous
Fmaj7that I’m a Fsus2willing participant,
Bb5gazing at the Gm7purple and pinks in the Bb5shadow of a bank-sponBbmaj7sored skyline.
F5*
“Unite against the establishment!™
Fmaj7(while drones Fsus2transmit the images
Bb5to a server Gm7farm in the valley for a Bb5culture that will eat its Bmaj7own insides.)”
[Chorus]
D5Oh, they wouldn’t be your C#5friend if F5you weren’t A5worth something.
D5Oh, they wouldn’t be your C#5friend if F5you weren’t A5worth something.
D5They wouldn’t be your C5friend if F5it wasn’tA5 worth it,
Bb5if you didn’t have something they could take.
[Verse]
F5* Fmaj7 Fsus2
Take a long look at the billboards that smother the air ‘til you can’t ignore ‘em
Bb5and glamorize department store Gm7crust-punk-chic
‘cause Bb5Satan’s trending up and it’s Bbmaj7Fashion Week but
F5*
this is not a movement. It’s just careful entertainment for an easy demographic in our sweatshop denim jackets
and we’llBb5 wonder, “What just happened?!” when the world becomes Manhattan
where the banks steal the apartments just to render them abandoned.
[Verse]
D5Oh, they wouldn’t be your C#5friend if F5you weren’t A5worth something.
D5Oh, they wouldn’t be your C#5friend if F5you weren’t A5worth something.
D5They wouldn’t be your C5friend if F5it wasn’tA5 worth it,
Bb5 F5 A5 D5 Bb5 x3
if you didn’t have something they could take.
[Interlude]
F5 A5 D5 F5* Bb5 A5 G5 D#5
[Bridge]
F5 A5 D5 F5*
We’re not stupid people but this financial oppression has got everyone believing all that we can do is nothing
‘cause we Bb5organize through avenues they A5lace with advertisements
so the G5ones we try to rage against are D#5still lining their pockets.
[Chorus]
D5~
Oh, they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
N.C.Oh, they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D5They wouldn’t be your C5friend if F5it wasn’tA5 worth it,
Bb5 F5 A5 D5 Bb5 x3
if you didn’t have something they could take.
[End]
Palm Muted
F5 A5 D5 Bb5