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Libertines - Anthem For Doomed Youth Chords

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Anthem For Doomed Youth Chords

(ver. 1)
Libertines
I play E and Emaj7, respectively, as:

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|-9---9-|
|-9---8-|
|-9---9-|
|-7---7-|
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Intro/and Verses
E - Emaj7 x2 G#m - A - C#m - D - B
 
E        Emaj7       E                    Emaj7        G#m
Here's a story about the rooms of death or glory to be learned by heart by all children or 
men.
        A                           C#m                           D
It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning when the sun they said 

would never set, 
B
it finally set again.
       E           Emaj7            E                   Emaj7       G#m
Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first lead you to the stairwell which leads only forever to 

kingdoms to come?
          A                            C#m
Rushed alone by guiding hands, whispers on the promised land
    D                                   B
They wished you lock? and handed you a gun

C                 E
Life could be so handsome
C                E
Life could be so gay
C           E
We're going nowhere
D                            B
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way

   E          Emaj7          E              Emaj7  
In the pub at night rocking out the lines of...?
G#m
Splitting to write all of the world's great tunes 
       A                                         C#m                                 D
Yes we thought that they were brothers then they half murdered each other, then they did a 
                 B 
karaoke turn and murdered our best song
E                   Emaj7               E           Emaj7          G#m
Told the (?) of his wife about the last night of his life, she turned away in tears called you a liar
           A                      C#m                           D                                 B
Where are all your dreams now? The battalions weren't so proud, lost in some old song and hanging off the old
       
barbed wire

C                     E
Well life could be so handsome
C                     E
It's all going to be okay
C           E
We're going nowhere
D                            B
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way

E       - C - E - C - E - C - D - B

      E              Emaj7            E              Emaj7
Nowhere in the institutions, so they teach the revolution
G#m
Something that could ever come to pass
        A                               C#m
All we tried once before was the king's head on the floor
           D                                           B
And we got booted out of (?) cause someone smashed the glass

C                 E
Life could be so handsome
C             E
Life could be okay
C           E
We're going nowhere
D                            B
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way
C                 E
Life could be so handsome
C             E
It's all gonna be okay
C           E
We're going nowhere
D                            B
But nowhere, nowhere is on our way            
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