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V For Vendetta - This Vicious Cabaret chords by Soundtracks

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

This Vicious Cabaret

Verse:
Chord diagramE MajorE
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
Chord diagramE MajorE
They say that life's a game, then they take the board away
Chord diagramE MajorE
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
Chord diagramE MajorE
Then leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret...

Chord diagramBB  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE                    Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramE MajorE
In no-longer-pretty cities there are fingers in the kitties
 Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE MajorE                     Chord diagramFF       Chord diagramE MajorE   Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE              Chord diagramD MajorD
There are warrants, forms, and chitties and a jackboot on the stair

Chord diagramE MajorE       Chord diagramBB                  Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramBB                                 Chord diagramD MajorD
There’s Sex and death and human grime, in monochrome for one thin dime
    Chord diagramBB                                         Chord diagramE MajorE
At least the trains all run on time but they don't go anywhere

                                                        Chord diagramF#F# Chord diagramBB     Chord diagramD MajorD
Facing their responsibilities, either on their backs or on their knees
Chord diagramBB                                                    Chord diagramF#F#   Chord diagramBB  Chord diagramD MajorD
There are ladies who just simply freeze and dare not turn a- way

Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB            Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB                 Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramC majorC
And the widows who refuse to cry will be dressed in garter and bow-tie
Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramBB                    Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB         Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramBB
And be taught to kick their legs up high in this vicious cabaret

Chorus:
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#            Chord diagramBB
At last! The 1998 Show!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#                    Chord diagramBB
The ballet on the burning stage
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#          Chord diagramBB
The documentary seen
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#              Chord diagramBB
Up on the fractured screen
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#                                       Chord diagramA augmentedA
The dreadful poem scrawled upon the crumpled page...

Chord diagramBB       Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE                 Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramE MajorE
There's a policeman with an honest soul
Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramE MajorE
Who’s seen whose head is on the pole
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE MajorE                Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE                      Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE
And he grunts and fills his briar bowl with a feeling of unease

Verse:
Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB                  Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramBB
Then he briskly frisks the torn remains
Chord diagramA augmentedA     Chord diagramBB                Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramBB
For a fingerprint or crimson stains
Chord diagramA augmentedA     Chord diagramBB             Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA augmentedA
And endevours to ignore the chains that he walks in to his knees

Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramE MajorE                                                  Chord diagramF#F# Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramE MajorE
While his master in the dark nearby inspects the hands, with brutal eye
Chord diagramBB         Chord diagramE MajorE                                                 Chord diagramF#F# Chord diagramBB      Chord diagramD MajorD
That have never brushed a lover's thigh but have squeezed a nation's throat

Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramBB               Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramC majorC
And he hungers in his secret dreams
Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB                Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
For the harsh embrace of cruel machines
Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB            Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramC majorC
But his lover is not what she seems
Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB              Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramBB
And she will not leave a note

Chorus:
Chord diagramBB  Chord diagramA#A#             Chord diagramBB
At last! The 1998 Show!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#              Chord diagramBB
The Situation Tragedy
Chord diagramBB     Chord diagramA#A#               Chord diagramBB
Grand Opera slick with soap
Chord diagramBB    Chord diagramA#A#              Chord diagramBB
Cliffhangers with no hope
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#                                Chord diagramA augmentedA
The water-colour in the flooded gallery...

Chord diagramBB       Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE                    Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramE MajorE
There's a girl who'll push but will not shove
Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramE MajorE                 Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramE MajorE
And she's desperate for her father's love
Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramE MajorE               Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramE MajorE     Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE MajorE             Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE
She believes the hand beneath the glove may be one she needs to hold

Verse:
Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramBB                    Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramC majorC
Though she doubts her host's moralities
Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramBB           Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramC majorC
She decides she is more at ease
Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramBB             Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramC majorC
In the Land Of Doing-As-You-Please
Chord diagramA augmentedA    Chord diagramBB          Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramBB
Than outside in the cold

Chord diagramBB       Chord diagramE MajorE
But the backdrops peel and the sets give way
                       Chord diagramF#F# Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramD MajorD
And the cast get eaten by the play
Chord diagramBB         Chord diagramE MajorE
There's a murderer at the Matinee,
                   Chord diagramF#F# Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramD MajorD
There are dead men in the aisles

Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB                  Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramBB
And the patrons and the actors too
Chord diagramA augmentedA     Chord diagramBB              Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramC majorC
Are uncertain if the show is through
Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramBB                 Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramBB           Chord diagramA augmentedA    Chord diagramBB
And with side-long looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles

Chorus:
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#            Chord diagramBB
At last! The 1998 Show!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#                      Chord diagramBB
The torch-song no one ever sings!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#            Chord diagramBB
The curfew chorus line!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#        Chord diagramBB
The comedy divine!
Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA#A#                                          Chord diagramA augmentedA
The bulging eyes of puppets strangled by their strings!

Chord diagramE MajorE
There's thrills and chills and girls galore, sing-songs and surprises!
Chord diagramE MajorE
There's something hear for everyone, reserve your seat today!
Chord diagramE MajorE
There's mischief and malarkies but no queers or yids or darkies
Chord diagramE MajorE
Within this bastard's carnival, this vicious cabaret!

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