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God Songs

Bad Religion

RockMedium for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
C×
D××
BDiagram coming soon
G
F#Diagram coming soon
Dsus4Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro:
  
Em C C C 
Em D B B 
 
(VERSE)
 
Em C Em 
G   F#  Em            C       Em 
And did those feet in ancient times 
G    F# Em  D     B           Em      
Trod on America's pastures of green? 
G   F#  Em           C       Em 
And did that anthropocentric god wane 
G    F# Em D            B           Em      
With their thoughts and beliefs all unseen? 
 
 
G F#    D         Dsus4  
I don't think so, 
D                                   Em         C Em 
He's up there with the others lying low 
G F#  D     Dsus4  
Vying with those  
B 
who you've traded your life to bless your soul. 
 
 
(VERSE)
 
Em C Em 
G   F#   Em        C          Em 
And have they told you how to think 
G        F#   Em      D          B     Em      
Cleansed your mind of sepsis and autonomy? 
G  F#   Em          C       Em 
Or have you escaped scrutiny 
G    F# Em  D             B         Em      
And regaled yourself with depravity? 
 
 
G   F# D     Dsus4  
Now we all see  
D                                Em         C     Em 
Religion is just synthetic frippery 
G F#    D  Dsus4  
Unnecessary 
B                               G  F#  Em 
In our expanding global cultural efficiency. 
 
 
(SOLO - the chords are the same as for the verse) 
 
 
G   F#    D     Dsus4  
And don't you fear  
D                                 Em         C     Em 
this impasse we have built to our future? 
G    F# D     Dsus4 
Ever so near,  
B        
And oh so austere. 
 
 
(OUTRO) (same as the intro)
 
Em C C C 
Em D B B 
 
 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · C · D · B · G · F# · Dsus4

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.