Bastille Day chords by Rush

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Advanced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwF75XNgdg

Intro:
G A G A G A G F# E x2
A B A B A B A G# F# x2

E G C D A D  E G C D C D x4

Verse 1:
   E     G   C      D  A D
Ooh, there's no bread, let them eat cake.
 E     G   C      D  C D
There's no end to what they'll take.
 E     G     C   D  A D
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth.
 E    G   C    D  C D
Wash the salt into the earth.

Chorus 1:
 G      F# G  C   B   A
But they're marching to Bastille Day.
  G        A        D
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize.
 G    F# G  C    B  A
Free the dungeons of the innocent.
   G          A        D
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise.

Instrumental:
E G C D A D  E G C D C D x2

Verse 2:
   E      G    C   D  A D
Ooh, bloodstained velvet, dirty lace.
 E   G    C   D  C D
Naked fear on every face.
 E    G     C    D  A D
See them bow their heads to die
  E     G   C    D  C D
As we would bow as they rode by.

Chorus 2:
 G     F# G  C   B   A
And we're marching to Bastille Day.
  G        A        D
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize.
 G    F# G  C   B  A
Sing oh choirs  of cacophony.
  G          A        D
The king has kneeled to let his kindgom rise.

Instrumental:
G F# C B  G A D
G F# C B  G A E

Solo:
G F# G E F E C D E
G F# G E F A

C D E

D A  D A  D A  G F# E x2

E B  E B  E B  A G# F# x2

C# D C# G# A A x3

D Eb D A A# A# x3

B C B F# G G x3

E G C D A D  E G C D C D

Verse 3:
 E   G     C   D   A D
Lessons taught but never learned.
 E  G    C   D  C D
All around us anger burns.
 E     G   C    D  A D
Guide the future by the past.
 E  G    C     D  C D
Long ago the mould was cast.

Chorus 3:
 G    F#   G C   B   A
For they marched up to Bastille Day.
  G     A         D
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize.
 G    F# G C    B  A
Hear the echoes of the centuries.
 G      A       D
Power isn't all that money buys.

Outro:
G F# C B  G A D
G F# C B  G A E

D A  D A  D A  G F# E x2

E B  E B  E B  A G# F# x2

C# D C# G# A A x3

D Eb D A A# A# x3

E F E B C C x3

G  F#  G  C  B   A
G  A   D
G  F#  G  C  B   A
G  A   G  A  G