Fountains of Wayne - A Fine Day For A Parade

      A Fine Day For A Parade
(Fountains of Wayne)

To play this song in the original key using the chords below, tune your guitar down 1/2 step.
I play the song with my guitar tuned to DGCFAD with a capo on the first fret.

Unless I've counted incorrectly, this song uses four different time signatures.
Standard 4/4 measures are unmarked. The alternatives are marked as follows:
   (2) indicates a 2/4 measure
   (3) indicates a 3/4 measure
   (6) indicates a 6/4 measure

[Intro]
| D Bm | D Bm | D Bm | D Bm |

[Verse]
|D           Bm               |
 Mrs. Carver says she's sorry
|D            Bm             |
 - She knows enough to worry
|F#m                           |F#m         |
 - But what does she know about crime? ---

|D              Bm             |
 - Believes the town is sinking
|D              Bm              |
 - The price of forward thinking
|F#m(6)                                |
 - You stay up all night half the time

[Pre-Chorus]
     |G         D       |G(3)    D            |
 - Racking your mind -- alone at night - while
|G(2)             |F#m           |
 All the neighbors sleep -- tight

[Verse]
|D             Bm               |
 Years ago she lost her daughter
|D          Bm          |
 - Off to a sacred order
|F#m                                 |F#m       |
 - Where they get stoned and work the earth ---

|D               Bm                |
 - Clears up her head with bourbon
|D               Bm          |
 - Cause beer is so suburban
|F#m(6)                              |
 - And declassé for what it's worth -

[Chorus]
|G             A          |Bm
 She drinks it down, down, down ---
    |G          A       |Bm
 For all of the old, old days ---
|G
- She's thinking of it now
     |Bm
 It's nice to get away
     Bm/C# |D                G    | F#m |
 But what a fine day for a parade

[Bridge]
| D Bm | D Bm | D Bm | D Bm |

[Verse]
|D              Bm               |
 - She stays up mending curtains
|D           Bm               |
- Until her fingers hurt and
|F#m                         |F#m     |
 - You can get so bored of it all ---
|D            Bm              |
 - No one can say for certain
|D              Bm               |
 - She'll never safely know when
|F#m(6)                           |
 - An asteroid will kill us all -

[Chorus]
|G             A          |Bm
 She drinks it down, down, down ---
    |G          A       |Bm
 For all of the old, old days ---
|G
 - She's thinking of it now
     |Bm
 It's nice to get away
     Bm/C# |D                G    | A |
 But what a fine day for a parade

[Break]
| D Bm | D Bm | F#m | F#m |
| D Bm | D Bm | F#m(6) |
| G D | G(3) D | G(2) | F#m | F#m |

[Chorus]
|G             A          |Bm
 She drinks it down, down, down ---
    |G          A       |Bm
 For all of the old, old days ---
|G
 - She's thinking of it now
     |Bm
 It's nice to get away
     Bm/C# |D                G   | F#m
 But what a fine day for a parade ---

[Outro]
       |D                G   |F#m
What a fine day for a parade ---
       |D                G   |F#m
 What a fine day for a parade ---  (repeat and fade)

Charted by Dexex