The Happy Dictator keyboard

The Happy Dictator

• Intro

(Albarn/Mael/Mael)
From the album 'The Mountain'
Tabbed by STET
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Intro
F  Dm         E                        A  E
     I am the one to give you life again
         A                Am
I am the one to save your soul
 B   A   F#  |   B   A   E
Amen


Verse 1
       B
As the shadows, they are forming, come and join me centre stage
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
           B
If you are empty and abstracted and your broken heart is full of rage
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)
B
In a world of fiction, I am a velvet glove
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
B
I am your soul, your resurrection, I am the love
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)


Interlude
B


Verse 2
   B
So look out to the west now, see where the devil lies
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
    B
Its pharmakon is with you and your empire it is paralysed
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)
     B
I'll propagate eternity and seal it with my kiss
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
   B
So look into the coffin and let me grant your wish
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)


Chorus
Am          E    G#m7/D#
No more bad news
           C#m             E
So you can sleep well at night
        A              Am           B
And the palace of your mind will be bright


Verse 2
B
Everything is slowing down yet everything is faster
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
      B
While everyone is consuming I'll save you from yourself
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)
 B
Upon this world of fiction my love I will bestow
 A                F#
(Oh, what a happy land we live in)
          B
And as we march into the future happiness will grow
 A                E
(Oh, what a happy land, oh yeah)


Chorus
Am          E    G#m7/D#
No more bad news
           C#m           E
So you can sleep well at night
        A              Am           B
And the palace of your mind will be bright


Verse 3
B
Everything is slowing down yet faster (Will be bright)
   A                        F#
Consuming us, I'll save you from yourself (Will be bright)
   B
My love bestowed upon this world of fiction (Will be bright)
A                   E
March to the future happiness grows (Will be bright)
B
Are you not better off than ever? (Will be bright)
A                  F#
Are you not better off right now? (Will be bright)
B
When have you felt this way, I ask you (Will be bright)
A                         E
When have you felt better off than right now? (Will be bright)


Bridge
C  Cadd9        E                          C
       I am the one to give you life again
Cadd9    A                Am
I am the one to save your soul
 Am
Amen


Chorus
   Am       E            G#m7/D#   C#m    E
No more bad news (Moun - tains and rain - bows, palaces of love)
           A
So you can sleep well at night
        Am                          E
And the palace of your mind will be bright
        G#m7/D#   C#m    E
(Moun - tains and rain - bows)
           A
So you can sleep well at night
        Am                          E         G#m7/D#  C#m  E
And the palace of your mind will be bright (Palaces of love)


Outro
           A                           Am                          E
So you can sleep well at night and the palace of your mind will be bright...

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