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Song title:      Serenading In The Trenches
Original Album:	 Pleasure

Words and Music by Sondre Lerche
Copyright © 2017 Import Records
Published by Import

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


VERSE1:
Notes:
There are no chords in VERSE1 until the second "...burning a flag...".
The voice provides the melody. However, I've indicated chords that would
support the melody that the voice sings, which you might want to play if
you're a solo acoustic guitar.

Chords:
G/D    xx0033 or x55433    D7  x545xx
D7sus4 xx0213 or x05535
                                                    
[G/D]                                              [D7sus4]
N.C.
  Thought I saw you at the finish line and you were burning a flag
            [G/D]
and you were biding your time

[G/D]
N.C.                                                D7
  Thought I saw you at the finish line and you were burning a flag
and you were biding your time, and you were biding your time,
and you were biding your time, and you were...


BRIDGE:
Chords:
G6      x55430    D7     x5453x    G/D x55433
C#m7b5  x4545x    Gdim7  x4535x

G6                              C#m7b5
  Tripped on my compact(?) as I fled   on foot 
D7                              N.C.  
  Shed all my luggage, and your fuck-me-boots 
Gdim7
  Cute as a button on a wounded high-horse 
D7
Sink into the quicksand of desire and remorse 


G6                                  C#m7b5
  Pissed off and juiced up, with my back   to the wall 
D7                           G/D
  Blindfolded, eager to give into the fall 
Gdim7
  Stripped of the structures that boggled my mind 
D7 
  Sink into the quicksand, making up for lost time 


CHORUS1:
Chords:
G/D    x55430    Am7  575555
D7     x5453x    D9   x5455x
Gdim7  x4535x

G/D
  Serenading in the trenches - Do you wanna pretend we’re dead?
D7                           G/D
  Serenading in the trenches - Do you wanna make love instead?
Gdim7                 Am7
  Cute-ass casualties,   clueless come-ons
D7                     D9  
  Our aborted mission,   our self-indulgence


VERSE2:
Chords:
G/D    x55430    D7    x5453x
C#m7b5 x4545x    Gdim7 x4535x

G/D                            C#m7b5
  Bled out from paper cuts all over the news 
D7                            G/D
  Softened the bruises with a one-sided truce 
Gdim7
  Stripped of our passions, in a lukewarm embrace 
D7
  Sink into the quicksand of stale dignity and grace 


VERSE3:
Chords:
G/D    x55430    D7     x5453x
C#m7b5 x4545x    Gdim7  x4535x

G/D                                C#m7b5
  Keep it up, keep on, try keeping up     with myself 
D7                               G/D
  Old ideas, splinters, put that shit on the shelf 
Gdim7
  Slumbering limbo, laurels resting on me 
D7
  Sink into the quicksand of a ruthless memory 


[repeat CHORUS1]

[repeat VERSE1]

[repeat CHORUS1]


CHORUS2:
Notes:
This is sung over a repeated CHORUS1.

Chords:
G/D   x55430    Gdim7 x4535x
D7    x545xx    Am7  575555

G/D
  Oh what a beautiful boy child, oh boy, the man of my dreams 
                              D7
Oh what a big boy, what a boy child, oh man, oh boy, what a dream

   Gdim7                              Am7
Oh boy, you’re preaching to the wrong choir, I know what’s up, my time is up 
  D7
I know what’s up, my time is up