Anthem For Doomed Youth chords by The Libertines

Chords with lyrics

I play E MajorE and Emaj7, respectively, as:

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Intro/and Verses
E MajorE - EMaj7Emaj7 x2 G# minorG#m - A augmentedA - C# minorC#m - D MajorD - BB

E MajorE    EMaj7Emaj7    E MajorE          EMaj7Emaj7    G# minorG#m
Here's a story about the rules of death or glory to be learned by heart by all children or
men.
    A augmentedA              C# minorC#m              D MajorD
It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning when the sun they said

would never set,
BB
it finally set again.
    E MajorE      EMaj7Emaj7      E MajorE          EMaj7Emaj7    G# minorG#m
Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first lead you to the stairwell which leads only forever to

kingdoms to come?
     A augmentedA              C# minorC#m
Rushed alone by guiding hands, whispers of the promised land
  D MajorD                  BB
They wished you luck and handed you a gun

C majorC         E MajorE
Life could be so handsome
C majorC        E MajorE
Life could be so gay
C majorC      E MajorE
We're going nowhere
D MajorD              BB
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way

  E MajorE     EMaj7Emaj7     E MajorE       EMaj7Emaj7
In the pub that night racking out the lines of shite
G# minorG#m
Putting to right all of the world's great wrongs
    A augmentedA                     C# minorC#m                 D MajorD
Yes we thought that they were brothers then they half-murdered each other, then they did a
         BB
karaoke turn and murdered our best song
E MajorE          EMaj7Emaj7        E MajorE      EMaj7Emaj7     G# minorG#m
Told the governor's wife about the last night of his life, she turned away in tears called

you a liar
      A augmentedA           C# minorC#m
Where are all your dreams now? The battalions, once so proud,
D MajorD                 BB
Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbed-wire

C majorC           E MajorE
Well life could be so handsome
C majorC           E MajorE
It's all going to be okay
C majorC      E MajorE
We're going nowhere
D MajorD              BB
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way

E MajorE    - C majorC - E MajorE - C majorC - E MajorE - C majorC - D MajorD - BB

   E MajorE       EMaj7Emaj7      E MajorE       EMaj7Emaj7
Nowhere in the institutions, did they teach that revolution?
G# minorG#m
Something that could ever come to pass
    A augmentedA                C# minorC#m
All we tried once before was the king's head on the floor
      D MajorD                      BB
And we got booted out the boozer cause someone smashed the glass

C majorC         E MajorE
Life could be so handsome
C majorC       E MajorE
Life could be okay
C majorC      E MajorE
We're going nowhere
D MajorD              BB
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way
C majorC         E MajorE
Life could be so handsome
C majorC       E MajorE
It's all gonna be okay
C majorC      E MajorE
We're going nowhere
D MajorD              BB