{"id":206,"date":"2024-07-12T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2024-07-12T03:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:24:52","slug":"wheat-kings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/?page_id=206","title":{"rendered":"Wheat Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\/tab\/the-tragically-hip\/wheat-kings-chords-86554\">https:\/\/tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\/tab\/the-tragically-hip\/wheat-kings-chords-86554<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Intro]<br>G C G C<br>G C G C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 1]<br>G C G C<br>Sundown in the Paris of the prairies<br>G C G C<br>Wheat kings have all their treasures buried<br>G C G C<br>And all you hear are the rusty breezes<br>G C G C<br>Pushing around the weathervane Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Instrumental]<br>G C G C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 2]<br>G C G C<br>In his Zippo lighter he sees the killer&#8217;s face<br>G C G C<br>Maybe it&#8217;s someone standing in the killers place<br>G C G C<br>Twenty years for nothing, well that&#8217;s nothing new, besides<br>G C G C<br>No one&#8217;s interested in something you didn&#8217;t do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Chorus]<br>D G C G C<br>Wheat kings and pretty things,<br>D G C G C<br>Let&#8217;s just see what the morning brings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 3]<br>G C G C<br>There&#8217;s a dream he dreams where the high school is dead and stark<br>G C G C<br>It&#8217;s a museum and we&#8217;re all locked up in it after dark<br>G C G C<br>Where the walls are lined all yellow, grey and sinister<br>G C G C<br>Hung with pictures of our parents&#8217; Prime Ministers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Chorus]<br>D G C G C<br>Wheat kings and pretty things<br>D G C G C<br>Wait and see what tomorrow brings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 4]<br>G C G C<br>Late breaking story on the CBC<br>G C G C<br>A nation whispers, &#8220;We always knew that he&#8217;d go free&#8221;<br>G C G C<br>They add, &#8220;You can&#8217;t be fond of living in the past<br>G C G C<br>Cause if you are then there&#8217;s no way that you&#8217;re gonna last&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Chorus]<br>D G C G C<br>Wheat Kings and pretty things<br>D G C G C<br>Let&#8217;s just see what tomorrow brings<br>D C<br>Wheat Kings and pretty things<br>C D<br>Ah that&#8217;s what tomorrow brings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Outro]<br>C D C D C G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\/tab\/the-tragically-hip\/wheat-kings-chords-86554 [Intro]G C G CG C G C [Verse 1]G C G CSundown in the Paris of the prairiesG C G CWheat kings have all their treasures buriedG C G CAnd all you hear are the rusty breezesG C G CPushing around the weathervane Jesus [Instrumental]G C G C [Verse 2]G C G CIn his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/?page_id=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wheat Kings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/music.lukespeers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}