Capo: 7 Tuning: E A D G B E

Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing ## NOTE: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ## CAPO: 7th Fret INTRO: C ~ ~ Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore

^AmParty hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores ^FLook at all the lies it takes, the job of making ^Ckings ~ ~ You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it Put it ^Amon the television screens, they'll believe it It's a ^Dm7beautiful thing ^F It's a beautiful th^Cing

~ ~ We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us

While the ^Amprofiteers count their cash and praise Jesus The ^Fpress sings another chorus, “Let Freedom ^CRing” ~ ~ We send our boys away to come home in parts Be^Amlieve the lies with all our hearts It's a ^Dm7beautiful thing ^F It's a beautiful th^Cing

BRIDGE:

Dis^Fsension is a song only fools and traitors ^Csing Just ^Flook at all the benefits that global economy ^Gbrings C ~ ~ Today we sing the gilded age's song The ^Am20th century's dead and gone It's a ^Dm7beautiful thing ^F It's a beautiful th^Cing

INSTRUMENTAL: C Am F C Am Dm7 F C ~ ~ I live in a land of hope and betrayal

I ^Amget up each morning and try to tell the tale And ^Fso, until my dying day, whatever fate may ^Cbring ~ ~ A dark age looms, there's evil at hand Some^Amhow I still believe in the goodness of man It's a ^Dm7beautiful thing ^F It's a beautiful th^Cing It's a ^Dm7beautiful thing ^F It's a beautiful th^Cing

Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful thing