The Race Is On The King Is Dead chords by Guided By Voices

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

🎸 Intro:

D MajorD A augmentedA G+G E minorEm G+G A augmentedA

🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD    A augmentedA G+G   E minorEm    G+G A augmentedA
The race is on, the king is dead
  D MajorD    A augmentedA G+G E minorEm    G+G A augmentedA
The shit is on appointed heads

🎸 Verse 1:
  D MajorD     A augmentedA G+G
And he's got a son
   E minorEm     G+G       A augmentedA
"And you got a daughter," he said
  D MajorD      A augmentedA G+G
The bridge is drawn
  E minorEm     G+G   A augmentedA
The suitcase's on the bed

🎸 Interlude:
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G E minorEm G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G E minorEm G+G A augmentedA

🎸 Verse 2:
  D MajorD     A augmentedA G+G
The show goes on
   E minorEm    G+G    A augmentedA
The spoilers lose the day
   D MajorD    A augmentedA G+G
The spotlight on
   E minorEm    G+G   A augmentedA
The girls who flew away
   D MajorD   A augmentedA G+G
From jigsaw laws
   E minorEm   G+G   A augmentedA
The tanners who remained
    D MajorD     A augmentedA   G+G
We're drunken frat boys through
 E minorEm G+G   A augmentedA
Initiation gained

🎸 Verse 3:
 G+G      F#F#  E MajorE
"Greetings, noble Caesar
     D MajorD  DbDb  BB
We have come to congratulate
  G+G     F#F#    E MajorE
You on your successful crossing
      D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 E minorEm G+G A augmentedA
Of the Rubicon"

🎸 Interlude:
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD

🎸 Verse 4:
D MajorD
Circling to back around
    A augmentedA
New and used
       Dsus2Dsus2
Challenging "All join on"

🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD    A augmentedA G+G   E minorEm    G+G A augmentedA
The race is on, the king is dead
  D MajorD    A augmentedA G+G   E minorEm    G+G A augmentedA
The race is on, the king is dead

🎸 Verse 5:
G+G    F#F#  E MajorE
Every single highway
    D MajorD  DbDb BB
Is the wrong way home
G+G    F#F#  E MajorE
Traffic information directing:
D MajorD   G+G
Turn around
      D MajorD   G+G
Check your odometer
     D MajorD      G+G
Turn your headlights on

🎸 Outro:
G+G F#F# E MajorE D MajorD DbDb BB