Beautiful Thing chords by Slaid Cleaves

Chords with lyrics

CAPO: 7


Intro: C majorC

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Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
A minorAm
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
FF                        C majorC
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings
                         ~ ~
You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
    A minorAm
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it
    Dm7Dm7        FF
It's a beautiful thing
          C majorC
It's a beautiful thing

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We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
     A minorAm
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
  FF                    C majorC
The press sings another Chorus, ?Let Freedom Ring?
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We send our boys away to come home in parts
 A minorAm
Believe the lies with all our hearts
    Dm7Dm7        FF
It's a beautiful thing
          C majorC
It's a beautiful thing


Bridge:
  FF                     C majorC
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing
   FF                      G+G
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings
 C majorC                 ~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
  A minorAm
The 20th century's dead and gone
    Dm7Dm7        FF
It's a beautiful thing
          C majorC
It's a beautiful thing

Instrumental: C majorC  A minorAm  FF  C majorC    A minorAm  Dm7Dm7 FF C majorC


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I live in a land of hope and betrayal
 A minorAm
I get up each morning and try to tell the tale
  FF                     C majorC
And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring
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A augmentedA dark age looms, there's evil at hand
  A minorAm
Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man
    Dm7Dm7        FF
It's a beautiful thing
          C majorC
It's a beautiful thing
    Dm7Dm7        FF
It's a beautiful thing
          C majorC
It's a beautiful thing