"The Charge" by New Model Army (from the album "Thunder and Consolation")
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Transcribed by Juergen Bohn (nma@jjbohn.com)


Intro:     |  B   A   | B   A   | (Instrumental)
Verses:    |: B   A   | B   A  :| Our history speaks in thunder...
Bridge:    |  B   A   | B   A   | (Instrumental)
Chorus:    |: B   A   | B   A   | On on on, cried the leaders...
           |  E   D   | F#  G  :| The bridges are burnt behind us...
           |  B   D   | G   G   | Brave, brave Hundreds...
Special:   |: C#  A   | C#  A  :| The massacre now is over...
           |: D#  B   | D#? B? :| The unity bond is broken...


[Intro]

[Verse 1]
    B
Our history speaks in thunder
       A
From a thousand village halls
   B
In blood and sweat and sacrifice
   A
In honoring every call
       B
So the forces gathered against the thorn
  A
A-piercing in their side
    B
The brave new world is beckoning
       A
So the older world must die

[Bridge]

[Verse 2]
In the offices of the city
At all the tables of oak and power
The snares are laid and baited
For the approaching of the hour
A hundred justifications
And the presses are ready to roll
The gateways to the nation
They are firmly under control

[Chorus]
B                   A
On on on, cried the leaders at the back
        B
We went gallopping down the blackened hills
    A
And into the gaping trap
    E
The bridges are burnt behind us
            D
And there's waiting guns ahead
F#                 G
Into the valley of death
                            |: B  D  G  G :|
Rode the brave hundreds...

[Verse 3]
Well we called for some assistance
From the friends that we had known
But this is the 1980s
And we were on our own
We never felt like heroes
Or martyrs to a cause
Just battleweary soldiers
In a bloody civil war

[Chorus]
On on on, cried the leaders at the back ...
Yeah ...
Brave, brave Hundreds ...

[Special]
    C#
The massacre now is over
And the order new enshrined
        A
While a quarter of the nation
Are abandoned far behind
      C#
Their leaders offer the cliche words
So righteous in defeat
    A 
But noone needs morality
When there isn't enough to eat

    D#
The unity bond is broken
And the loyalty songs are fake
     B
I'll screw my only brother
For even a glimpse at a piece of the cake
   D# (?)
We only cry in private now
Behind the shuttered glass
        B (?)
When we think of the charge of this brigade
The severing of the past

[Chorus]
On on on, cried the leaders at the back ...

--
Chords by Juergen Bohn, January 1999
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