#------------------------------PLEASE NOTE----------------------------------------# This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Artist: The New Pornographers Album: Brill Bruisers Song: Marching Orders tabber: John Baer ([email protected]) tabbed on 9/2/2014 INTRO: (elec. power chords palm muted with occasional acoustic flourishes) E (E, A, B) x4 E A B E A B E What do these marching orders mean? Some halflit fairy tale I move bout their dreams A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2 It’s what they do, step one-two. Marching ten paces in front of you E A B E A B E Let’s put this countdown clock away. Unfinished parts of the deathray on the lawn A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2 Let them rust. Turn to dust, what the heart can’t imagine will trust F#m B E D They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? F#m B E D They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? (E, A, B)x2 E A B E A B E What do these marching orders say? Spelled out in a forgotten language, they leave A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2 the voice wrecked, don’t connect, what the fuse was there to protect. F#m B E D They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? F#m B E D They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? E, (elec. strum once:) E, F#m, C#m, B, E, F#m, C#m E F#m C#m B E F#m C#m C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it! E F#m C#m B E F#m C#m C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it! F#m B E D They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? F#m B E D They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? F#m B E D They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? F#m B E D E They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make? E A B E A B E A B All your marching orders stay? Are we as past as many ways oh hell no, we won’t go, E A B E A B E A B Say hell no, we won’t go, Say hell no, we won’t go, say hell no, we wont go. (OUTRO): (E, A, B) x4 End on E Cheers, and Buy Mass Romantic, Electric Version, Twin Cinema, Challengers, Together, and BRILL BRUISERS! www.thenewpornographers.com -John Baer
