Propagandhi - Todays Empires Tomorrows Ashes

      As arranged/played by The Magnificent Sevens in their cover.


[Double-time chorus]

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  The tangled web they weave   spans from Pine to Ruby Ridge
            G             F
Way back to Shay's defeat   on up to Gufstafsen
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  Now cue the ass parade of dittoheads and commisars and pricks
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To drown out the faintest hint of commie faggot heretics


[Chorus]

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  The nail that   sticks up   gets hammered down
C              G         F
  The master's   finest,   his finest tools are found
C             G            F
  Slack-jawed   and placid   amidst the cacophony
C              G            F
  Of screaming   billboards   and Disney-fied history


[Verse]

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  Sometimes the ties that bind us are strange
           G
No justice shines upon the cemetery plots marked
Am                  F
Hampton, Weaver, or Anna Mae, where


[Chorus]

C         G         F
  Federal   bureaus  and fraternal orders
C                 G
  Have cast their   shadows
F
Permanent features built into these borders


[Instrumental break]

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[Bridge]

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   But under cover of the,   the customary gap we find between
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   History and truth, founding fathers
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Back with the rockets blinding red glare

The bombs bursting in air, one nation indivisible


[Verse]

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The truth is when the back country learned of ratification
    Am                          F
The people had a coffin painted black
    G
And solemnly borne in funeral procession
     Am                    F
They buried it deep in the earth as


[Chorus]

C           G         F
  An emblem   of the,   the disillusion
C            G           F
  Internment   of their,   their Publick Liberty
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  And someday,   somewhere,   today's empires   are
G            F
  Tomorrow's   ashes


[Outro]

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