New Model Army - States Radio
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Acoustic Guitar arrangement by Bjoern Ahrens (nma-tabs@gmx.de)
 
Standard Tuning.



Main Melody Riff:
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e|-------------------------------
B|-------------------------------
G|-------------------------------
D|-------------------------------
A|-0---0---3-0-3-5---3-0-3---0-3-
E|-------------------------------
  
Chords:
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[Asus2] x02200
[Am]	x02210
[Am/G]  3x2210
[Am/C]  x32210
[Dsus2] xx0230
[F]     133211


Riffs:
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[Riff 1]: [Am][Am/G][Dsus2][F]
[Riff 2]: [Am][Am/C][Dsus2][F]



Arrangement & Lyrics:
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Intro: lots of [Asus2]

[Asus2]	 88.2 is your Saviour station 
	 God hangs like a shadow high above the nation
	 Like a phantom hurricane 
	 91.6 is Classic Soul 
	 Obama flyer still hanging by the side of the road
	 Like a long last prayer
[Riff 1] And the pawn shops glisten like the porn girl stars
	 And the cheap imitation armoured cars
	 Roll up and down past empty bars
	 Showing re-runs of the glory years
[Riff 2] But now the Champion of All Time is getting battered and bruised
	 The blows come raining down
	 He's standing there terrified to lose
	 But he's punch-drunk and he's going down

[Riff 2]

[Riff 1] 94.7 is the Weather Channel
	 Floods and droughts and plagues straight out of the Bible
	 And the scientists shake their heads
[Riff 2] And the air-con unit rattles and dies
	 The golf course green but the wells are dry
	 All looking to heaven with anxious eyes
	 As the vapour trails drift across cloudless skies

[Riff 2]

[Dsus2]	 96.4 is Classic Rock
	 Some of the kids that were sent are not coming back
	 It's like a ritual sacrifice
[Riff 1] Pressed uniforms and body-bags
	 And the smalltown church all decked with flags
	 And the waiting beds unslept in 
	 By the ghosts all up in Arlington
[Riff 2] And as the leaves blow on an autumn day
	 The funeral gathering kneels to pray
	 Make it OK, make it OK, God, please, make it OK
[Riff 2] 101-point-nothing is the shock jocks
	 Where every week is Hate Week
	 And we can scream and rage about everything
	 Then get back in the box that they keep us in
[Riff 2] As the free land stretches on
	 Where the endless hopes are born
	 All caught in a false dawn that lasts forever
[Riff 2] And the free land stretches on
	 Where the endless dreams are born
	 All caught in a false dawn that lasts forever

[Riff 1] 
[Dsus2][F]

Banjo Outro:
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it's hard to hear the banjo at first
because of the fade in, so I start with
the [Am/C]:

e|---------------0-----------------|
B|-------1---------------1---------|
G|---2-------2-------2-------2---0-|
D|-----2-------2-------2-------2---|
A|-3------(3)------3-------3-------|
E|---------------------------------|

e|---------------0-----------------|
B|-------0---------------2---------|
G|---2-------2-------2-------2---0-|
D|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|
A|-2-------2-------2-------2-------|
E|---------------------------------|

e|-------------0-------------------|
B|-------1-1h3---3-----1---0h1p0---|
G|---2---------------2---2-------0-|
D|-----2---------------2-----------|
A|-0-------0-------0-------0-------|
E|---------------------------------|

e|-----------------3-----1-------0-|
B|-------1-------------------------|
G|---2-------2-------2-------2-----|
D|-----3-------3-------3-------3---|
A|---------------------------------|
E|-1-------1-------1-------1-------|

e|-----------------------0---------|
B|-------0---------0-----------0---|
G|---1-------1-------1-------1---0-|
D|-----2-------2-------2-----------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|-0---------------0-------0-------|

e|-----------0---------------------|
B|-------1-----1-------------------|
G|---2-----2-----2-----------------|
D|-----2---------------------------|
A|-0---------------0---------------|
E|---------------------------------|


[Riff 2] 2x
[Riff 1]
[Riff 2]

End on [Am]