Marching Orders Chords
Marching Orders by New Pornographers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B, F#m, D and C#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:: E E A, B) (4x)
E A B E A B E
What do these marching orders mean? Some halflit fairy tale I move bout their dreams
A B E A B E E A, B (2x)
It’s what they do, step one-two. Marching ten paces in front of you
E A B E A B E
Let’s put this countdown clock away. Unfinished parts of the deathray on the lawn
A B E A B E E A, B (2x)
Let them rust. Turn to dust, what the heart can’t imagine will trust
F#m B E D
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#m B E D
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
E A, B (2x)
E A B E A B E
What do these marching orders say? Spelled out in a forgotten language, they leave
A B E A B E E A, B (2x)
the voice wrecked, don’t connect, what the fuse was there to protect.
F#m B E D
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#m B E D
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
E, (elec. strum once:) E, F#m, C#m, B, E, F#m, C#m
E F#m C#m B E F#m C#m
C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it!
E F#m C#m B E F#m C#m
C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it!
F#m B E D
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#m B E D
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#m B E D
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#m B E D E
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
E A B E A B E A B
All your marching orders stay? Are we as past as many ways oh hell no, we won’t go,
E A B E A B E A B
Say hell no, we won’t go, Say hell no, we won’t go, say hell no, we wont go.
(OUTRO): E A, B) x4
End on E