Beautiful Thing Chords
Beautiful Thing by Slaid Cleaves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 7st fret. It uses the chords C, Am, F, Dm7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C
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Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
Am
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
F C
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings
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You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
Am
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
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We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
Am
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
F C
The press sings another Chorus, “Let Freedom Ring”
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We send our boys away to come home in parts
Am
Believe the lies with all our hearts
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
Bridge:
F C
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing
F G
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings
C ~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
Am
The 20th century's dead and gone
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
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