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Acts Of Man by Frightened Rabbit

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Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Song: Acts of Man
Album: Pedestrian Verse




Standard tuning



Intro/verse riff:
   C
e|---------------------------------|
B|------1-------1-------1------1---|
G|----0-------0-------0------0-----|
D|-------------------------2-------|
A|-3------3-------3------3---------|
E|---------------------------------|

Intro:
play C or use intro/verse riff:

Verse 1 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C
I am that dickhead in the kitchen
       F            G           C
Giving wine to your best girl's glass
C
I am an amateur pornographer
F          G            C
Unpleasant publisher by hand

Chorus 1 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C                   F      G       C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C                   F      G       C    (C,F,G,C)
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man

Verse 2 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C
I see stumbling pinstriped trouser
F         G          C
Flecks of sick on an office shoe
C
Part of the fatty British average
F                G      C
Who lives in the houses around you


Chorus 2 chords:
    Am    G   Am    F      G             Cverse riff:
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
    Am    G   Am    F      G             Cverse riff:
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man


Verse 3 chords: play intro/verse riff thru-out:
C
Let's all crowd 'round the cowering body
             F        G          C
Throw stocky fingers, bricks and stones
C
Let's promise every girl we marry
F            G                 C
We'll always love them when we probably won't


Verse 3: play intro/verse riff thru-out:
C
While the knight in shitty armour
         F         G      C
Rips the drunk out of her dress
C
One man tears into another
        F        G          C
Hides a coward's heart in a lion's chest

Verse 4 chords:
        Am                          G Am
Man, he breeds although he shouldn't
              F       G       Cverse riff:
He's breeding just because he comes
         Am                  G Am
Acts the father for a minute
         F     G         Cverse riff:
Till the worst instincts return

Chorus 3:
    Am    G   Am    F      G       C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
    Am    G   Am    F      G       C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man

Verse 5 chords:
C
I have never wanted more, to be a man
C          F     G      C
To build a house around you
     G
I am just like all the rest of them
F                         C
Sorry, selfish, trying to improve

Chorus 4 chords:
    G         F                      C
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
    G         F                      C
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try

Outro:
G - F - C: x2

Acts Of Man Chords Info

Last Updated: September 10, 2025

Chords: G, C, E, A, B, D, F, Am