Alphadena

Transpose
Year: 2010
Album: Rancho Tetrahedron

VERSE 1
Bm7b5 
Bm7/A 
There is a mansion out  
E7#9 
there in the trees
 
Where  
Bm7/A 
colonial gentry took  
Eaug 
pleasure
Eb6 
They tamed land and  
Am7b5 
serf with e
D7 
questrian 
 
 
Gm 
poise 
 
 
G7 
 
The  
Bm7/A 
chairman’s arriving on  
E7#9 
his four-wheeled perch
Bm7/A 
Then come advocates,  
Eaug 
frowning
Eb6 
Then those with  
D7sus4/A 
ghosts in their eyes
CHORUS 1
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning yet?  
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning yet?  
C# 
 
Ebm 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
VERSE 2
Asus2 
What did you say  
D13b5 
when he  
E7#5 
touched 
 
you?
Asus2 
Speak up, louder, no  
D13b5 
coaching 
 
 
D13 
Eb6 
Short recess, no  
D7sus4 
leeching 
 
press
Eb/G 
This is how we  
G7/F 
make 
 
redress
 
Bm7/A 
Blighty left  
Cmaj7/E 
us 
 
bereft
Bm7/A 
So we sent forth witch  
Cmaj7 
doctors
Cm 
Those peasant  
C6sus2/E 
children were blessed
CHORUS 2
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning yet?  
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Ab 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Better  
Bb 
to forget  
C# 
 
Ebm 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
INTERLUDE
 
You  
Ebm/F 
gave use that lingo and  
Ebm6/F 
war
 
We  
Bb9 
gave dreamer sons, some had flaws
 
The  
Ebm/F 
Romans are laughing, you  
Ebm6/F 
know
 
And re
Bb9 
fusing to pay up or go  
Ab 
 
F# 
 
Ab 
 
F# 
VERSE 3
 
Now  
Bm7/A 
names have been uttered and  
E7#9 
cash may change hands
Bm7/A 
After more letters and  
Eaug 
hearings
 
Now  
Eb6 
back to John Bull’s  
D7sus4/A 
Skid Row with you
CHORUS 3/OUTRO
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Abadd9/C 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning yet?  
C# 
 
Abadd9/C 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Are you  
Bb 
learning? 
 
 
C# 
 
Abadd9/C 
 
Abm6/F 
 
Better  
Bb 
to forget the  
C# 
Roman debt  
Ebm 
 
Your betters left in trust for you  
F7sus4 
 
F7 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
 
F7sus4 
 
F7 
 
Ebm