New Model Army - Rumour & Rapture (1650) ----------------------------------------- Tabbed by Bjoern Ahrens (nma-tabs@gmx.de) Standard Tuning. Chords: --------------------------- [VERSE]: e|-4-----0-----2-----0----- B|-4-----0-----2-----0----- G|-4-----4-----3-----6----- D|-6-----4-----4-----6----- A|-6-----2-----4-----4----- E|-4-----0-----2----------- [CHORUS]: e|-0-----0-----4-----4----- B|-0-----0-----4-----4----- G|-9-----9-----6-----6----- D|-9-----9-----6-----6----- A|-7-----6-----4-----4----- E|------------------------- e|-0-----5-----4-----4----- B|-0-----5-----4-----4----- G|-9-----6-----6-----6----- D|-9-----7-----6-----6----- A|-7-----7-----4-----4----- E|-------5----------------- Arrangement: ---------------------------- [VERSE] 2x [VERSE] We waited in our summer camps, we waited all summer long To be paid for the bloody work we had done I fought with General Ireton, I fought with Freeborn John The best of men in the worst of times I hane honours to my name, I have served my God And not that fool of a king But when I close my eyes to dream I see pikes against the sky I hear dying men and horses scream [CHORUS] No one tells us what is happening No one ever says what is happening [VERSE] Through those November rains, we were on the march again To Putney with our elected men And in the Church the leaders talked And outside we stamped our feet against the cold And dared to hope News from home comes slow and it is never good The harvest poor and too few to gather We were sent to hang two men caught stealing food By a frozen river [CHORUS] No one tells us what is happening No one ever says what's happening [CHORUS] 1x (break) [VERSE] 2x [VERSE] They say in London town the streets are alive with talk The Assembly of Saints to be taken down I say let them rot in Hell - it will be God's will To see a land that is free Everywhere there are prophets Everywhere there are words All is rumour and rapture But I just long to go home, turn my face into the sun And now I know Jerusalem [CHORUS] no one tells us what is happening No one ever says what is happening no one ever tells us what is happening