Barenaked Ladies - Helicopters
Tabbed By: Pseudo
Email: acook1@attbi.com

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


Most of the song is just the same chords over and over, and I'm about
90% sure about the chords during the bridge.


Verse 1

F                 Bb          Gm              C
This is where the helicopters came to take me away
F                 Bb               Gm
This is where the children used to play
F            Bb          Gm            C
This is only half a mile away from the attack
F                Bb                Gm
This is where my life changed in a day
C
And then it changed back

Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions
I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions
This is where the allies bombed the school,
They say by mistake
Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake
Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating


Chorus

F           Bb      Gm    C
And I'll be leaving soon
F       Bb      Gm       C
I'll be leaving soon


Verse 2

Just as soon as we were on the ground
We were back in the jet
Just another three day foreign tour we'd never forget
It's hard to sympathize with all this devastation
Hopping 'round from site to site like tourists on vacation

Bridge

F    Eb         D              Am          C
   I can't help anyone cause everyone's so cold
F      Eb        C#    C       F                 D
   Everyone's so skeptical of everything they're told
F              Bb      Gm           C
And even I get sick of needing to be sold


Verse 3

Though it's only half a month away, the media's gone
An entertaining scandel broke today, but I can't move on
I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
Everybody's laughing, while at me they point a finger
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer


And here's the little fill they do between the chorus and the next
verse and at the end of the song (I think this is actually on a flute)

e------------------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------------------------|
G---------10-10--------10-10--------10-10-12-10-12-9---|
D---10-12--------10-12--------10-12--------------------|
A------------------------------------------------------|
E------------------------------------------------------|

That's it.