Army chords by Ben Folds Five

Chords with lyrics

Artist: Ben Folds Five
Song: Army
Album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

(see bottom for chords)

VERSE 1 (see below for guitar interlude played during verse)
     G#G#
Well I thought about the army
      D#mD#m
Dad said, "Son you're fucking high"
    G#G#
And I thought, yeah there's a first for everything

So I took my old man's advice, three sad semesters
    D#mD#m
It was only fifteen grand
     C#C#
spent in bed, I thought about the army
FF
I dropped out and joined a band instead

CHORUS (piano solo)
G#Maj7G#maj7
G#maj7


VERSE 2 (same as verse 1 except for F minorFm chord)
Grew a moustache and a mullet
Got a job at chick-fillet
Citing artistic differences
the band broke up in May
    F minorFm
And in June reformed without me
And they got a different name
I nuked another grandma's apple pie
And hung my head in shame, no

CHORUS (listen to song for the arrangement of the chords)
G#Maj7G#maj7
Been thinking a lot today

G#Maj7G#maj7
Been thinking a lot today

BRIDGE
G#G#
Oh Oh Think I'll write a screenplay
G#G#
Oh Oh Think I'll take you to LA
C minorCm
Oh Oh Think I'll get it done yesterday

(The guitar part played during the bridge goes something like this)
e|------------------------|
b|------------------------|  (this followed by triplets of each note heading back down)
g|------------------------|  (11-11-11-10-10-10-9-9-9….)
d|------------------------|
a|------------------------|
e|-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-|

PIANO SOLO (listen to song for arrangement of chords)
C minorCm
G#Maj7G#maj7
F minorFm

GUITAR SOLO (played along with G#G# D#mD#m C#C# G#G# chords)
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
g|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
d|---6-------6s10---8-------8s13---11-------11s15---13---11---10---8---6-|
a|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

HORN INTERLUDE ("")
G#G#
G#

VERSE 3 (same chords as previous verse)
In this time of introspection
On the eve of my election
I say to my reflection
God please spare me more rejection
'Cause my peers, they criticize me
And my ex-wives all despise me
Try to put it all behind me
But my redneck past is nipping at my heels

CHORUS (same as previous chorus)

ENDING
        F#Maj7F#maj7
I thought about
G#Maj7G#maj7
  the army


CHORDS (these are all the chords used in the song. There are a lot but you basically just need G#, D#mD#m and C#C# for the main parts of the song)


G#G#    466544
D#mD#m   X68876
C#C#    X46664
FF   X46464
A#mA#m   X13321
G#Maj7G#maj7  XX6543
F minorFm    133111
F#F#    244322
C minorCm    X35543
Fm7Fm7   131111
F#7A#7   X13131
D#7D#7   X68686
C#Maj7C#maj7  XX(11)(10)98
F#Maj7F#maj7  XX4321
A#A#    X13331