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Ignoreland

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Intro

F | G | F | G   (play chords each for one measure, then riff section)

riff: (Guitar 2 plays riff, Guitar 1 plays chords above tab)

F(VIII)  G(X)    C(III) D(V)        C E-|--------------------------------------------| B-|---10-------12\-------8----10---------------| G-|---10-------12\-------5-----7----------4\0--| D-|--------------------------------------------| A-|--------------------------------------------| E-|--------------------------------------------|

D5                      D7(no 3rd)             G/D These bastards stole their power         from the victims of the Em7               D5                  D7(no 3rd)      G/D Us v.  Them years.  Wrecking all things virtuous    and true. D5             D7(no 3rd)             G/D                 Em7 The undermining social         democratic downhill slide into      abysmal D5                    D7(no 3rd)      G/D                  Em7 lost lamb off the precipice      into     the trickle down runoff pool.

C              D       C               D

They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy-nine.

C                D                     F                        G

Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,

F

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,

G

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

D5                                  G/D                   Em7

The information nation took their clues     from all the sound - bite gluttons. D5                      D7(no 3rd)                          G/D     Em7 Nineteen eighty, eighty-four,      eighty-eight, ninety-two     too,    too. D5             D7(no 3rd)         G/D                   Em7 How to be what you        can be, jump jam junking your energies. D5             D7(no 3rd)      G/D              Em7 How to walk in dignity    with throw-up on your shoes.

C              D      C                D

They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine.

C              D                    F

Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.

G                                   F

T.V. tells a million lies.  The papers terrified to report

anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon, G                                 F(VIII) G(X)      C(III) D(V)  C I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.  So,          what to     do,  man. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

C                                                     Bm

If they weren't there we would have created them.  Maybe, it's true,

Bb                           A

but I'm resentful all the same.  Someone's got to take the blame. D5                D7(no 3rd)  G/D         Em7 I know that this is vitriol.    No solution,    spleen-venting, D5             D7(no 3rd)                 G/D      Em7 But I   feel better having     screamed; don't you?

C           D       C               D

They desecrated winter, nineteen seventy-nine.

C           D                       F                       G

Capital collateral.  Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,

F

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,

G

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland. F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

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D            F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D