Biography:
Dan Mangan (born Daniel Mangan in Vancouver on April 28, 1983) is a Canadian indie folk-rock singer-songwriter. He has done U.S. tours with The Walkmen, Decemberists and Okkervil River. In Europe he has performed twice at the Glastonbury Festival. In 2010 he gained a Polaris Music Prize short list nomination for his sophomore album Nice, Nice Very Nice. At the 2012 Juno Awards, Mangan was awarded New Artist of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year for Oh Fortune
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Other songs:
- Jeopardy
- Road Regrets
- Robots
- Sold
- The Indie Queens Are Waiting
- Basket
- About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
- About As Helpful As You Can Get Without Being Any Help At All
- Ash Babe
- Cold In The Summer
- Daffodil
- Et Les Mots Croises
- Et Les Mots Croisses
- Fabulous
- Fair Verona
- Fool For Waiting
- If I Am Dead
- Jude
- Just Fear
- Leaves Trees Forest
- Mouthpiece
- Not What You Think It Is
- Oh Fortune
- Pine For Cedars
- Post War Blues
- Race To The Bottom
- Reason To Think Aloud
- Regarding Death And Dying
- Rows Of Houses
- Set The Sail
- So Much For Everyone
- Some People
- Starts With Them
- There Is No Such Thing As Wasted Love
- Tinas Glorious Comeback
- Troubled Mind
- Whistleblower
- Xvi
- You Silly Git
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Post War Blues - Dan Mangan
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Standard tuning, Capo on 5th fret if using Dan's chord construction.
Most chords are finger picked with thumb striking root note on 1st and 3rd beat
and fingers strumming higher notes on 2nd and 4th beats.
Listen to the song for a better feel, this video has him playing acoustically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16z4-SSFeo0
Chords with an * are strummed rather than finger picked.
This is how Dan plays the chords, standard construction works just as well:
D 10 9 12 11 x x
A 6 7 11 9 x x
Bm 7 9 9 7 7 7
G x 10 12 12 12
D
Let's start a war for the kids
A
A purpose for which to unite
D
Make them some words they can mince
G* D A
What they don't know, They won't mind
D
Find them a foe for the fight
A
And stories to tell as they age
D
Then maybe time will decide
G* D A
Which ones keep and which ones fade
Chorus:
Bm * D
There's the deepest sleep in my life,
Bm* D
from which I am slowly coming to
A* Bm*
And every morning I wait for the news
A*
oh this is, this is post war blues
guitar solo
Make me a means to an end
Oh make me an ending in sight
Make me insightful again
What I can't see, I can't fight
Make me a fire to burn
burn all the letters I wrote
write me a list of concerns
If we are at peace
If we are at ease
I want to know
Chorus:
There's the deepest sleep in my life
from which I am slowly coming to
And every morning I wait for the news
Oh this is, this is post war blues
Oh this is, this is post war blues
Post War Blues - Dan Mangan
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Standard tuning, Capo on 5th fret if using Dan's chord construction.
Most chords are finger picked with thumb striking root note on 1st and 3rd beat
and fingers strumming higher notes on 2nd and 4th beats.
Listen to the song for a better feel, this video has him playing acoustically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16z4-SSFeo0
Chords with an * are strummed rather than finger picked.
This is how Dan plays the chords, standard construction works just as well:
D 10 9 12 11 x x
A 6 7 11 9 x x
Bm 7 9 9 7 7 7
G x 10 12 12 12
D
Let's start a war for the kids
A
A purpose for which to unite
D
Make them some words they can mince
G* D A
What they don't know, They won't mind
D
Find them a foe for the fight
A
And stories to tell as they age
D
Then maybe time will decide
G* D A
Which ones keep and which ones fade
Chorus:
Bm * D
There's the deepest sleep in my life,
Bm* D
from which I am slowly coming to
A* Bm*
And every morning I wait for the news
A*
oh this is, this is post war blues
guitar solo
Make me a means to an end
Oh make me an ending in sight
Make me insightful again
What I can't see, I can't fight
Make me a fire to burn
burn all the letters I wrote
write me a list of concerns
If we are at peace
If we are at ease
I want to know
Chorus:
There's the deepest sleep in my life
from which I am slowly coming to
And every morning I wait for the news
Oh this is, this is post war blues
Oh this is, this is post war blues
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