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

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D

🎸 Intro:

D A G Em G A

🎸 Chorus:
    D       A G     Em       G  A
The race is on, the king is dead
    D       A G  Em       G  A
The shit is on appointed heads

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

🎸 Interlude:
D A G Em G A
D A G Em G A

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

🎸 Verse 3:
 G           F#    E
"Greetings, noble Caesar
         D   Db    B
We have come to congratulate
    G         F#        E
You on your successful crossing
            D Dsus4  Em G A
Of the Rubicon"

🎸 Interlude:
D A G  A G D
Dsus2 D

🎸 Verse 4:
D
Circling to back around
        A
New and used
             Dsus2
Challenging "All join on"

🎸 Chorus:
    D       A G     Em       G  A
The race is on, the king is dead
    D       A G     Em       G  A
The race is on, the king is dead

🎸 Verse 5:
G       F#    E
Every single highway
        D    Db  B
Is the wrong way home
G       F#    E
Traffic information directing:
D     G
Turn around
           D      G
Check your odometer
          D           G
Turn your headlights on

🎸 Outro:
G F# E D Db B