Festival Song Chords
Festival Song by Jeff Rosenstock is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords F, Cadd4/F, Bb, D, A/C#, A, G, B/D# and F/A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
N.C.
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
N.C.
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
F Cadd4/F
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
Bb
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
Verse
F Cadd4/F
It feels completely ridiculous that I’m a willing participant,
Bb
gazing at the purple and pinks in the shadow of a bank-sponsored skyline.
F Cadd4/F
“Unite against the establishment! (while drones transmit the images
Bb
to a server farm in the valley for a culture that will eat its own insides.)”
D A/C# F A
Oh, they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D A/C# F A
they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D A/C# F A
They wouldn’t be your friend if it wasn’t worth it,
Bb G
if you didn’t have something they could
Verse
F Cadd4/F
Take a long look at the billboards that smother the air ‘til you can’t ignore ‘em
Bb
and glamorize department store crust-punk-chic ‘cause Satan’s trending up and it’s Fashion Week, but
F
this this is not a movement. It’s just careful entertainment for an easy demographic
in our sweatshop denim jackets and we’ll
Bb
wonder, “What just happened?!” when the world becomes Manhattan where the banks steal the apartments
just to render them abandoned.
D A/C# F A
Oh, they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D A/C# F A
they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D A/C# F A
They wouldn’t be your friend if it wasn’t worth it,
Bb G F
if you didn’t have something they could take.
A D Bb
ake ... ake ... ake
F A D Bb
Take ... ake ... ake ... ake
F A D B/D#
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
Bb F/A G B/D#
Woah ... Woah ... Woah ... Woah
Verse
F A
We’re not stupid people but this financial oppression has got
D B/D#
everyone believing all that we can do is nothing ‘cause
Bb F/A
we organize through avenues they lace with advertisements
G B/D#
so the ones we try to rage against are still lining their pockets.
N.C.
Oh, they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
N.C.
they wouldn’t be your friend if you weren’t worth something.
D A/C# F A
They wouldn’t be your friend if it wasn’t worth it,
Bb G F
if you didn’t have something they could take.
A D Bb
ake ... ake ... ake
F A D Bb
Take ... ake ... ake ... ake
F A D Bb
Take ... ake ... ake ... ake
F A D Bb
Take ... ake ... ake ... ake