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Changing Of The Guards chords by The Gaslight Anthem

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The Gaslight Anthem's cover of Bob Dylan's Changing of the Guards. Really good version IMO.

Capo 2

Intro:  Chord diagramA augmentedA

        Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Sixteen years,
       Chord diagramA augmentedA         Chord diagramE MajorE              Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Sixteen banners united over the fields
          Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramE MajorE
While the good shepherd grieves
          Chord diagramF# minorF#m       Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramE MajorE
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
                Chord diagramF# minorF#m              Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.

        Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Fortune calls.
        Chord diagramA augmentedA                Chord diagramE MajorE                     Chord diagramF# minorF#m
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
              Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramE MajorE                        Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
              Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramE MajorE                     Chord diagramF# minorF#m
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
               Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramE MajorE         Chord diagramA augmentedA
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
(Interlude)

                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m
The cold-blooded moon.
            Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
The captain waits above the celebration
            Chord diagramF# minorF#m           Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramE MajorE
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
            Chord diagramF# minorF#m           Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramE MajorE
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
               Chord diagramF# minorF#m                               Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramE MajorE       Chord diagramA augmentedA
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.

                Chord diagramF# minorF#m
They shaved her head.
                     Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramE MajorE
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
            Chord diagramF# minorF#m            Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramE MajorE
Chord diagramA augmentedA messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
                  Chord diagramF# minorF#m         Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
           Chord diagramF# minorF#m                               Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
(Interlude)

                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m
I stumbled to my feet.
            Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE
I rode past destruction in the ditches
         Chord diagramF# minorF#m                             Chord diagramD MajorD               Chord diagramE MajorE
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
         Chord diagramF# minorF#m         Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramE MajorE
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
     Chord diagramF# minorF#m                             Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramE MajorE     Chord diagramA augmentedA
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.

              Chord diagramF# minorF#m
The palace of mirrors
          Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
            Chord diagramF# minorF#m          Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramE MajorE
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
          Chord diagramF# minorF#m             Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
          Chord diagramF# minorF#m                           Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE MajorE         Chord diagramA augmentedA
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.


(Interlude)

              Chord diagramF# minorF#m
She wakes him up
                  Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramE MajorE
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
            Chord diagramF# minorF#m                Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramE MajorE
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m           Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m                              Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE MajorE      Chord diagramA augmentedA
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.

              Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Gentlemen, he said,
        Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramE MajorE                        Chord diagramF# minorF#m
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
                Chord diagramD MajorD                         Chord diagramE MajorE
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
               Chord diagramF# minorF#m                  Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramE MajorE
But Eden is burning, either get brave for elimination
              Chord diagramF# minorF#m                                 Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE MajorE       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.


(Interlude)

           Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Peace will come
         Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramE MajorE                         Chord diagramF# minorF#m
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
         Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramE MajorE                         Chord diagramF# minorF#m
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall
    Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE                Chord diagramF# minorF#m
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
            Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramE MajorE           Chord diagramA augmentedA
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.


Chord diagramF# minorF#m    Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramE MajorE
F#m...


The "Interlude" is:

           Chord diagramAbAb    Chord diagramEb MajorEb      Chord diagramC#C#                       Chord diagramAbAb

Chord diagramE MajorE ----------------------------(repeat 3 times)-||-------------------------||
Chord diagramBB ---------------------------------------------||-------------------------||
Chord diagramG+G -4-6-7-6-6~---4-4~----2-2~-------------------||-4p2---2-2-2~-4p2---2-2~-||
Chord diagramD MajorD ---------------------------------------------||-----4------------4------||
Chord diagramA augmentedA ------------------------------------------ --||-------------------------||
Chord diagramE MajorE ---------------------------------------------||-------------------------||

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