White Coats Chords
White Coats by New Model Army is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, E, G, F, Am, Em and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
Dm E Dm E
Dm E Dm E
verse 1
Dm E Dm E
Well, we know what makes the flowers grow, but we don't know why
Dm E Dm E
And we all have the knowledge of DNA, but we still die
G F E
We perch so thin and fragile here upon the land
G F E
And the earth that moves beneath us, we don't understand
Bridge
Dm E Dm E
verse 2
Dm E Dm E
So we rush towards the Judgement Day, when she reclaims
Dm E Dm E
A toast to the Luddite martyrs then, who died in vain
G F E
Down at the lab they're working still, finishing off
G F
How do we tell the people in the white coats
E
Enough is enough?
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, I listen to you pray as if some help will come
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, She will dance on our graves when we are dead and gone
Am G F
we are dead and gone
Bridge
Dm E Dm E
Dm E Dm E
verse 3
Dm E Dm E
You and I we made no suicide pact, we didn't want to die
Dm E Dm E
But we watch the wall, little darling, while the chemical trucks go by
G F E
This desperate imitation, now, of innocence
G F E
Those last few days at Jonestown ain't got nothing on this
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, I listen to you pray as if some help will come
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, she will dance on our graves when we are dead and gone
Bridge 2
G F E
G F E
verse 4
E F Am
Now beneath the fitted carpets, beyond the padded cells
E F Am
Within these crimes of passion, the naked truth she dwells
C F G C
And this fury's just a part and this thunder's just a part
C F G G
Desire is just a part, the cracking ice, the splitting rock
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, I listen to you pray as if some help will come
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, She will dance on our graves when we are dead and gone
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, to the suicide day, the blind man blunders on
F F Am Em G F
Hey, hey, She will dance on our graves when we are dead and gone
Am G F
we are dead and gone
Am G F
we are dead and gone
Am G F
we are dead and gone
Bridge
Dm E Dm E
Dm E Dm E
Outro
Dm E Dm E
As children learn about the world, we built that wall of sand
Dm E Dm E
Along the beach we laboured hard with our bare hands
G F E
We worked until the sun went down beneath the waves
G F E
And the tide came rolling splashing in, washed the wall away
G F
How do we tell the people in the white coats
E
Enough is enough ?
G F
How do we tell the people in the white coats
E E E
Enough is enough is enough?