Bang Your Drum chords by Wolf Parade

Chords with lyrics

This is how I play the song. Suggestions and corrections welcome!


      DmDm        A augmentedA
The dying light was nearly dead
    C# minorC#m             A augmentedA
By the time we reached the water?s edge.
      DmDm          FF
We saw the river beating on the river bank
     C majorC           E MajorE
For the way that it held it in her riverbed.

   BB     A augmentedA
It?s cold, it?s dark,
        C majorC         E MajorE
It?s not for people with uneasy hearts.
        BB          A augmentedA
But if you?re with me on the other side,
        C majorC  G+G       BB
Strike up the band;  we have survived.

A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE x3

       F#F#
And do they beat that drum to get you back home,

Or do they beat it to keep you away?

      DmDm        A augmentedA
Don?t be surprised at your regrets.
      C# minorC#m               A augmentedA
Don?t be surprised that the water made you wet.
      DmDm
There?s a shallow down river
      FF
Where the water will forgive you,
   C majorC          E MajorE
Soft skin, your lukewarm beds

    BB       A augmentedA
Follow me, oh follow me;
 C majorC           E MajorE
Allow me to play the voyager.
       BB
I?ll try to keep you as dry
     A augmentedA
As the hollowed out tree that
   C majorC     G+G     BB
You would be wrapped in another man?s fur

      A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE
So take a dive
      A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE
Oh take a dive
      A augmentedA      E MajorE         A augmentedA       E MajorE
Oh take it out on the stepping stones that make the water lie
      C majorC  E MajorE     C majorC  E MajorE
So take a dive, oh take a dive

    A augmentedA   E MajorE     A augmentedA   E MajorE
Ohohohoh-ohohoh, ohohohoh-ohohoh

      C majorC E MajorE     C majorC      E MajorE
Take that hair out of your damned eyes
      A augmentedA    E MajorE
While the waves are rain
     A augmentedA     E MajorE
And the sum you'll pay.

     F#F#
Do they beat that drum to get you back home,

Or do they beat it to keep you away?

     C# minorC#m           E MajorE
Will you burn your bridges down

Singing lalalalalalala
     C# minorC#m           E MajorE
Will you burn your bridges down

Singing lalalalalalala
     C# minorC#m               E MajorE
Will you bang your drum to the blazing sound

Singing lalalalalalala

     G+G   BB
Will you turn away?
       G+G  BB
How can you turn away?