Wheat Kings

Tragically Hip (1992)


{t:Wheat Kings}
{st:Tragically Hip (1992)}

strum: | [G]D - - u - - [C]D - | - u - - d - d - | 1 (2) & (3) 4, (1) & (2) 3 4

{c:intro vamp}
[G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /  [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /  

{c:verse 1}
[G]Sun-[C]down in the [G]Paris of the [C]prairies
[G]Wheat [C]kings have [G]all their [C]treasures buried
And [G]all you [C]hear are the [G]rusty [C]breezes
[G]Pushing a-[C]round the [G]weathervane [C]Jesus

[G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /  [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /  

{c:verse 2}
[G]In his Zippo [C]lighter, he [G]sees the [C]killer's face
[G]Maybe it's [C]someone [G]standing in a [C]killer's place
[G]Twenty years for [C]nothing, well that's [G]nothing [C]new. Besides,
[G]No one's [C]interested in [G]something you [C]didn't do

{soc}
[D]Wheat kings and [G]pretty [C]things,   [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /
[D]Let's just see what the [G]morning [C]brings     [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  / 
{eoc}

{c:verse 3}
[G]There's a dream he [C]dreams where the [G]high school's [C]dead and stark
[G]It's a muse-[C]um, and we're [G]all locked up in it [C]after dark
[G]The walls are [C]lined all [G]yellow, grey and [C]sinister
[G]Hung with [C]pictures of our [G]parents' prime-[C]ministers 

{soc}
[D]Wheat kings and [G]pretty [C]things,    [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /
[D]Wait and see what to-[G]morrow [C]brings      [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  / 
{eoc}

{c:verse 4}
[G]Late breaking [C]story on the [G]CB-[C]C,
[G]A nation [C]whispers, "We'd [G]always knew that [C]he'd go free" 
[G]They add, "you [C]can't be fond of [G]living in the [C]past,
[G]'Cause if you [C]are then there's no [G]way that you're [C]gonna last"

{soc}
[D]Wheat kings and [G]pretty [C]things,    [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /
[D]Let's just see what the [G]morning [C]brings      [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /
{eoc}
{c:outro}
[D]Wheat kings and [G]pretty [C]things,   [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  / 
Oh [D]that's what to-[G]morrow [C]brings      [G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /
[G]/  /  /  [C]/  /  /  /  /  [G]↓

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