The Chariot chords by The Cat Empire

Key:                     G


Trumpet intro:  Em   Am   G   C   C/B
Verse:  Em   G   Am   C  D
Chorus  Am   Em  G D/F# C   Am   Em   G   D
2nd Chorus(regae) Am  Em  G  C   Am  Em  G  D

Em                        G
This is a song that came upon me

one night
         Am
when the news it had been telling me
       C                D
about one more war and one more fight
     Em
and 'aeh' I sighed but then
   G
I thought about my friends
         Am
then I wrote this declaration
         C         D
just in case the world end

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Our guns
we shot them in the things we said
ah we didn't need no bullets
cos  the roadtrips that we launched

t-t-tripping across this island

starting missions at the break of dawn
yawn and smile say
'what direction shall we take?'


'Somewhere where it warm and wet'
this be the route we'd always take and....

Am                         Em
Our weapons were our instruments
G           D/F#        C
made from timber and steel
            Am            Em
we never yielded to conformity
       G
but stood like kings
       D
in a chariot that's riding on a
D
record wheel

2nd Chorus(regae) Am  Em  G  C   Am  Em  G  D
  we rely on some words instead
kill someone in argument
outwit them with our brains
and we'd kill ourselves laughing
at the funny things we'd say
ONNTTTSSS baby.


And bombs
we had them saved for special times
when the crew would call a shakedown
we break down a party landmine
women that so sexy
they explode us with their looks
ah we blowing up some speakers
jumping round till the ground shook


And missiles
they were
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 Em   G   Am   C  D
And our airforce flying
when the frisbee in the sky
have a session while we're smoking
now we're feeling extra high
and we'd sneak into a carpark
with the skaties on our back
and we're flying down the levels howling
'on the attack now on the attack'


And battles
they happened in these dancehalls
see we'd rather fight with music
choosing one the rhythm war
battle at these shakedowns
and we battle at these gigs
we do battle in our bedrooms
made some sweet love to the beat


Then our allies grew
wherever we would roam
see whenever we're together
any stranger feel at home
in a way we are an army
but this army not destruct
no instead we're doing simple things
good loving find it run amuck


This be a declaration
written about my friends
it's engraved into this song
so they know I'm not forgetting them
see maybe if the world contained
more people like these
then the news would not be telling me
about all that warfare endlessly and

Chorus
Our weapons were our instruments
made from timber and steel
we never yielded to conformity
but stood like kings
in a chariot that's riding on