WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Frank Turner - Love Ire And Song Tabs | Ver. 1
Love Ire & Song by Frank Turner
(Capo 3rd Fret)
I play the intro using middle finger for g string, ring finger for b string,
first finger for 2nd fret e and a string and thumb for 3rd fret e string.
Easiest way I found to do it.
Intro Part A
e---------------------------------------------------------------|
b---3-------3--------3--------3--------3---------3----3-------3-|
g--2--2----2--2----2---2----2--2-----2--2------2--2--2--2---2--2|
d-0-----------------------0-------------------------------------|
a---------0--------------------------------0h2------0-----------|
e----------------2-----------------3----------------------0-----|
Intro Part B
e----------------------------------------------------------------|
b---3-------3--------3--------3--------3---------3---2-----------|
g--2--2----2--2----2---2----2--2-----2--2------2--2--2-----------|
d-0-----------------------0--------------------------2-----------|
a---------0--------------------------------0h2-------------------|
e----------------2-----------------3-----------------------------|
Verse 1
Repeat Intro Part A
“Well a teacher of mine once told me
That life was just a list of disappoints and defeats
And you could only do your best,
And I said "That's a f**king cop-out, you're just washed up and your tired,
and when I get to your age I won't be such a coward"”
Em, G,
“But these day I sit at home, known to shout at my TV”
Bm, A,
“And Punk Rock didn't live up to what I hoped that it could be”
Em, G,
“And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young”
Bm, A
“Are just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs”
G, Em, G, A,
“And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf”
strummed Hammer ons and pull offs using D
e-2----3---2----3---2----0---|
b-3----3---3----3---3----3---|
g-2----2---2----2---2----2---|
d-0----0---0----0---0----0---|
a----------------------------|
e----------------------------|x2
Verse 2
Just vocals
“Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit”
Repeat Intro Part A (starting half way through, fret 3 e string)
“When you realised your parents had let the world all go to sh*t
And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died
Had been killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside”
Em G
“But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left”
Bm A
“And got let down again by some poor excuse for protest”
Em G
“Yeah by idiot f**king hippies in 50 different factions”
Bm A
“Who are locked inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment”
G, Em, G, A, G, A
“And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door”
D, A, Bm, G,
“Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care”
Em, A, Em, A
“But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no”
D A Bm G
“Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win”
Em A Em A
“And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible”
Bm
“Well we've been a good few hours drinking”
A
“So I'm going to say what everyone's thinking”
G D
“If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking”
Em A D
“Then we might as well have a parade”
Bm
“Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning”
A
“And a better plan's set to get forming”
G D
“Then where's the harm spending an evening”
Em A G A
“In manning the old barricades, “
D G A
“so come on old friends to the streets, Let's be 1905 but not 1917, “
D
“let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers”
G A
“Who never have to test drive the least of their dreams”
Em G
“Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe”
Bm A
“And then ride to the valleys like the old light brigade”
Em G
“And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid”
Bm A
“And they'll celebrate our deaths with a national parade”
D A Bm G
“So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care”
Em A Em A
“Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes”
D A Bm G
“And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win”
Em A Em A
“And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible”
Intro part A
“Leave the mourning the to the morning
Yeah pain can be killed
With aspirin tablets and vitamin pills”
Intro Part B but ending on D instead of A
“But memories of hope, and glorious defeat
Are a little bit harder to beat”