E: 022100
A: x02220
B: 224442
Bm7: 224232
Dbm: 446654
Dmaj7: 557675
Dm: 557765
F#m: 244222
You can figure out a fingerpicking pattern to match the recorded version, if you'd like. Though Dan
usually just strums these chords when he plays this song live.
[Verse 1]
E A E A
Helena, the ramifications are very large tonight
E A B
The stars say don't pick a fight or barge things around
E A E A
See, apparently our bloodlines are botched beyond redemption
E A
Luckily, you don't believe in redemption
B A
This may work in your favor, I'm told
[Chorus]
Bm7 Dbm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
Bm7 Dbm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
Dmaj7
[Verse 2]
E A E
It's a drag the way your flag had to come down
A E A B A
With one of the above Americas so ferociously in bloom
E
But pistols at dawn can only work for so long
A
Curved appetites took flight when you decided to call the song
E A B A
“A Pacific-Northwest Bitch Gets Shown To Her Room”
[Chorus]
Bm7 Dbm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
Bm7 Dbm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
Dmaj7 A
Bm7 Dbm
And this one goes out, just like the one before
Bm7 Dbm
To the 17th version of How I Won the War
Bm7 Dbm
Oh, first Destroyer! And, oh, now the Underground!
[Bridge]
Dm A F#m
Dm A F#m
Dm A F#m
Dm
[Verse 3]
E A E A
Helena, the ramifications are very large tonight
E A B A
The stars say don't pick a fight or barge things around
[Outro]
Bm7 Dbm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
Bm7 Dbm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
Dmaj7 A
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
