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I Do Not Have The Power To Cause A Flood

by Grace Petrie

Biography:

Grace Petrie (born 1987) is a British folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leicester, UK. She was hailed in The Guardian as “a powerful new songwriting voice” in 2011.

Petrie writes indie folk rock songs (a couple with an acoustic punk twist), plays the guitar and sings with a voice that has been described by listeners as similar to Laura Marling, Kate Nash. From the humble beginnings of small gigs in her hometown in 2006 and a home-recorded debut album

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I Do Not Have the Power to Cause a Flood - Grace Petrie (and The Benefits Culture)

http://music.gracepetrie.com/track/i-do-not-have-the-power-to-cause-a-flood-2

Tuning: Standard

Tempo: 280bpm

Strumming pattern: d d dudu

lick:

e|-3---2---0------|
B|-3-----------3--|
G|-2--------------|
D|----------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|

At the very end, it becomes:

e|-3---2---0---2------|
B|-----------------3--|
G|--------------------|
D|--------------------|
A|--------------------|
E|--------------------|

In the final verse, there's a walk up from Em to C twice, but it's not really a walk up in that it's just a chord that goes:

e|-x-|
B|-x-|
G|-0-|
D|-0-|
A|-0-|
E|-2-|

So just play that for a bar between Em and C.

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CAPO ON 5 (this is for the studio version, in the BBC radio version she plays with a capo on 2)

Intro: G D G G C D G

G D G
I do not have the power to cause a flood

(walkdown)
C D G Em
I'm not like Storm from X-men who so ea-sily could

(walkdown)
C D G Em
Manipulate the weather, causing havoc where she stood

(strum once) (strum once, and pause)
C D G G G D
But if I had the power to cause a flood, I would
^
(pause for a bar here)
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C Cadd9 G
Oh I'd send a flood to Russia right to Putin's door,

D Em
The waves of my destruction spanning miles,

C Cadd9 G
To wash away the prejudice and then ne-ver more would he make

(strum once) (lick)
D
Statements that equate us all to pe-do-philes

C D G Em
But instead give all Pussy Riot a dame-hood

(play 3 bars of G before walking down to C at next verse)
C D G
If I only had the power to cause a flood
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C Cadd9 G
Oh I'd send one to Uganda where Museveni says

D Em
Gay and bi and trans-abnormals need a cure

C Cadd9 G
And until he finds one he's content to throw them all in jail

(strum once) (lick)
D
A life sentence of repentance but you can be sure that

C D G Em
Museveni definitely would

(play 3 bars of G before walking down to C at next verse)
C D G
Know it if I had the power to cause a flood
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C D G C D Em C
And for Je-rem-y Clarkson, it's all just a bit of fun

(strum once) (strum once)
C G
For our highly paid celebrities, to use language of bigotry,

(strum once) (walk up)
D Em
And then make no apology, because no one sees a link between

C G
The things he thinks it's fine to tweet, and people yelled at in the street

(walk up)
D Em
And kids abused in every school, and the time my windows were bricked through

C Cadd9 G D
And Putin and Museveni, for UKIP and for Jeremy, and banter from the Top Gear lads,

(walk up) (strum once) (strum once)
Em C G
Yeah it's PC gone fucking mad and that's all just fine a-nd good

(strum once) (final lick) (strum once, let ring)
D G
But if I had the power to cause a flood - you can bet I would

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