Barenaked Ladies - Helicopters

      
 
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 #Barenaked Ladies - Helicopters
 #Tabbed By: Pseudo
 #Email: acook1@attbi.com
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 #Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
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 #Most of the song is just the same chords over and over, and I'm about
 #90% sure about the chords during the bridge.
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 #Verse 1
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 F                 Bb          Gm              C   
 This is where the helicopters came to take me away
 F                 Bb               Gm  
 This is where the children used to play
 F            Bb          Gm            C     
 This is only half a mile away from the attack
 F                Bb                Gm 
 This is where my life changed in a day
 C                       
 And then it changed back
 
 Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions
 I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions
 This is where the allies bombed the school,
 They say by mistake
 Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake
 Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
 I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating
 
 
 Chorus
 
 F           Bb      Gm   C 
 And I'll be leaving soon 
 F       Bb      Gm   C 
 I'll be leaving soon 
 
 
 Verse 2
 
 Just as soon as we were on the ground
 We were back in the jet
 Just another three day foreign tour we'd never forget
 It's hard to sympathize with all this devastation
 Hopping 'round from site to site like tourists on vacation
 
 Bridge
 
 F  Eb         D              Am          C   
  I can't help anyone cause everyone's so cold
 F    Eb        C#    C       F                 D   
  Everyone's so skeptical of everything they're told
 F              Bb      Gm           C    
 And even I get sick of needing to be sold
 
 
 Verse 3
 
 Though it's only half a month away, the media's gone
 An entertaining scandel broke today, but I can't move on
 I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
 Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
 Everybody's laughing, while at me they point a finger
 A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
 
 
 And here's the little fill they do between the chorus and the next
 verse and at the end of the song (I think this is actually on a flute)

 e------------------------------------------------------|
 B------------------------------------------------------|
 G---------10-10--------10-10--------10-10-12-10-12-9---|
 D---10-12--------10-12--------10-12--------------------|
 A------------------------------------------------------|
 E------------------------------------------------------|
 
 

 
 That's it.