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Illumination Tab

by Gogol Bordello


This song is one of those great three chord songs.  The rhythm changes in the chours but 
you listen to the CD you will get it.

The rhythm is played with hard down up down stokes but let the last down stroke ring a 
This is the same for all the verse.
Intro: (down up down) (down up down) (down up down) 
up down)

Verse:
                     
Don't believe them for a moment
            
For a second, do not believe, my friend
                            
When you are down, them are not coming
                 
With a helping hand
                             
Of course this is no us and them
                 (play like intro)   
But them they do not think the same
            
It's them who do not think

Chorus : the strumming is more casual here but the same chords

                          
They never step on spiritual path
                                       
They paint their faces so differently from ours
                    
And if you listen closely
                      (in intro rhythm)     
That war it never stops
    
That war it never stops