Someone's Singing New York New York
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1.Nothing has happened in my old town
To@
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Since the line closed down My old Stu-debaker's gone
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Nothing has happened to the people round here In nearly twenty five years
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Then everything started to go wrong Someone's
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singing in the street a-gain New York New York Someone's
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singing in the street a-gain New York New York Someone's
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singing in the street a-gain New York New York
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old Dean's Road has a kerb and gutter Kentlyn looking like a new Calcutta
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They're spending money like it doesn't matter now
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There's a mall where the cricket pitch used to be There's a carpark
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round my favourite tree There's a toll where we used to drive for free
DS% al @ @
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Someone's singing in the street a-
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gain New York New York Someone's singing in the street a-
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gain New York New York Someone's singing in the street
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Someone's singing in the street Someone's singing in the street a-
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gain New York New York
2.Whatever happened to my old town
When the blinds came down
Air conditiotned so there's no one outside
Whatever happened to the people round here
Nobody comes near
Does loose talk cost lives?
3.Whatever happened to my weatherboard town?
It's Hardiplank now
This old town is too far gone
World Is Almost At Peace
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Oh When the
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world is almost at peace tell me When the world is almost at
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peace tell me 1.When I first saw the light of day It took my breath a-
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way My skin can't win against cold steel No matter how I
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feel When I first saw the light of day I let it slip a-
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way till fortune came across my sleep More than I can say
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in Oh When the world is almost at peace tell me
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When the world________
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When I first saw the light of day It took my breath a-
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way My skin can't win against cold steel No matter how I
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feel A perfect day be-gins Children sing Salvation Army band plays_
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______ Saints come marching in Oh
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When the world is almost at peace tell me
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2.All I see is concrete from my room
For someone else's boom
All ships get lifted by the tide
Lifted up in time
A perfect day begins
Children sing Salvation Army band plays
Saints come marching in
Runaway Bay
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try side Ghosts beyon the fi-bro zone Bush-fire summers closing on the
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army huts at In-gleburn Leave your friends and debts behind
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Leave your best dress on the line There was no boom to buy this time
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No waves to ride Where once we ran we stand at Runaway Bay Where
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once were trees is sand at Runaway Bay Where once was forest is
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wasteland Where once was good is bad land Where once we walked we run to Runaway
To@
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E--------------|--------------|--------------| I never found the Golden Mile
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But the red doors of Kalgoorlie Were always open
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wide To pass some time To put me back on
DS% al @ @
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line once we ran we
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stand at Runaway Bay Where once were trees is sand at Runaway
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Bay Where once was forest is wasteland Where once was good is
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bad land Where once we walked we run to Runaway Bay
Rpt ad lib
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I never found the Golden Mile___________
2.I worked the Snowy Mountain Scheme
I cut the northern Queensland cane
I farmed out on the western plain
It's much the same
I'm sleeping under stars tonight
There's colours in the sky tonight
A hundred voices come to mind
Talk to me sometimes
It Doesn't Take A House To Fall On Me
The "D" chord in the verse alternates between "D" and "D/A"
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1.When the sun sweeps over the hor-izon
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When the moon hangs heavy on the land When my heart hangs
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heavy on your memory my love I will sing the words you may not under-stand
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That it doesn't take a boat to cross the desert That it
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doesn't take a stone to swim the sea And for all of the phone calls you
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never re-turned well it doesn't take a house to fall on me 2.Now for
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me Did you read your future in your tea leaves in the morning
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Look to find me gone? Dreams that come by only for an instant
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Then like smoke they will be gone Oh_________ Oh_________
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me Once I stood you in good stead with my ac-quaintance
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Once you stood on my shoulders to see but for all of the
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times when you plain stood me up Now it doesn't take a house to fall it
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doesn't take a house to fall it doesn't take a house to fall on me
2.Now for all of my time in seventh heaven
And for all of your attention paid to me
And for all of the vows that we never exchanged
I just thank the Lord that I woke up to see
That it doesn't take the earth to move a mountain
That it doesn't take a lock to hold a key
And for all of the letters that I only wrote
Well it doesn't take a house to fall on me
3.When the starling strike a note at daybreak
When the blackbird sings a reverie
And in all of the dreams I imagine my love
That they whisper words you never spoke to me
That it doesn't take a cloud to build a castle
That it doesn't take a jury to agree
That unless you're confined to a hospital bed
Then it doesn't take a house to fall on me
Wooden Ship
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Want to sail on a
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wooden ship Want to sail on a wooden ship
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(End riff) Want to sail on a wooden ship down the coast of Afri-
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ca Want to sail on a wooden ship
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Want to sail on a wooden ship to the Gulf of Mexi-co Want to sail on a
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wooden ship 1.Shipwrecks to the surface Like vol-
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canoes grains of sand Opium Road desper-ados under-stand
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Deep sleep demon doctors In their temples wash their hands
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Cedars of Lebanon burn o'er the land (play riff)
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I don't mind I don't mind
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I don't mind (play riff)
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a thousand years a-go
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Want to sail on a wooden ship down the Gulf of Mexi-co
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Want to sail on a wooden ship
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Rpt to fade
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(play riff)
2.History in the making
Turn the pages, you were there
Cormorants hunt like torpedoes of the air
Million bays of islands
Walls are weeping, Wailing Wall
Industry sweat in your footsteps fall
Transcribed by Joakim Lindblad
The Hungry Mile
Piano intro over these chords:
F#... B C# F# B G#m C# F# F# B C# A#m B
B F# B F# B G#m G#m C# C# F# F#...
F#
In truth it is colder The waterside winter
A
Than a roving a fugitive life No-one cries harder
B F#
Than a child without supper At least we've got blankets at night
They read out the names on the wireless each day
The stevedores meet by the towers
To work on their ships with their cargoes to load
If you're lucky they'll give you the hours
There's a man in an old coat, early each morning
Grave as a hangman he stands
Says that no-one is served by the Government nerve
It's worse if you work with your hands
The lines on his face are not lines of disgrace
But the lines at the dockside are long
When Port Jackson steamships call you out
B
You work and work for a song Work and work for a song
F#
Give me a job on the hungry mile
F# A B
Give me a job on the hungry mile......
Transcribed by Joakim Lindblad.
Keep You To Myself
You will
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never go hungry in your life
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Never need shelter at night You will
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eat at my table Knock on my door
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Ever need something, call I'll keep you to
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myself Won't mention anyone I'll keep you to
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myself Won't ask for anything If you
D Am
feel like a stranger sometimes
G G
Ever in danger sometime You will
D Am
never go begging, out in the cold
G A
Innocence rescued, before it is sold
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The street of freaks' a ghostown now
A C#m
The street of freaks' is no place now I'll keep you to
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myself Won't mention
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anyone I'll keep you to
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myself Won't ask for
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anything Won't ask for anything
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The street of freaks' a ghostown now
A C#m
The street of freaks' is no place now I'll keep you to
E B
myself Won't mention
C#m A
anyone I'll keep you to
E B
myself Won't ask for
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anything I'll keep you to
E B
myself Won't mention
C#m A
anyone I'll keep you to
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myself Won't ask for
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anything Won't mention anyone
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I'll keep you to myself.
Transcribed by Joakim Lindblad
Privileged Shoes/Minds of Machinery
|E A |D |E A |B D |E A |D |E A |
|E A |B D ||:E A |D |
1.You're standing in the shoes of privilege You're
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wearing your privileged shoes You're walking with Jesus
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|1,2,4. ||3,5,6.
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Walking with the privileged few If you
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want to be saved get a recognised guru If you
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want to succeed better do what I do 4.We're
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mind of machinery
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In the presence of beauty
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I only see ugly
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Minds of machinery
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Dirty as west coast politics In the valley of dirty The
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dirtiest folks play dirty tricks When it's all clean 'n' shiny
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Someone was tracking our dirty steps Now I don't see the shiny I
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only see dirty Minds of machinery
Rpt ad lib
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Minds of machinery
2.You're sleeping on the bed of privilege
Staying on the privileged floor
No need to worry, no need to worry any more
3.You're almost what I'd call respectable
Is this the new respectable you
You're dancing in the shoes of society, so how do you do
4.We're living in a land that's plentiful
There's plenty enough on the farm
When I knocked on your door for charity, you set the alarm
5.Some people say you're despicable
You're wearing despicable shoes
But when it comes the time for an autograph, you're joining the queue
If you want to get real get some trees to plant out
If you want to get rich better get an accountant
6.Instrumental
If you want to be saved get a recognised guru
If you want to succeed better do what I do
Get a mind of machinery
Transcribed by Joakim Lindblad
The Wolves Close In
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One night a runaway train will shake you from your sleep no, no, no, no
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What if the runaway train and civilization meet?
To@
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no, no, no, no There's one dream I've had be-fore
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I see the face, the face of a girl on board
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and so tread lightly
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I'm not afraid the promise is don't go kill yourself for this
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You've got a train A train to miss
DS%al@
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Don't go kill yourself for this no, no, no
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and so tread lightly Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in? Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in? Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in? Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in? Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in? Did the earth tilt
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slightly? Did the wolves close in?
2.The driver of a runaway train is drunk at the controls
His pockets lined with Kruggerands, his shoes are tipped with gold
In the spirit of wind and pine
I see the face, the face of a girl who's mine
3.Don't let a runaway train come take away your dreams
A hundred tons of nightmares roll down on your machines
Wreckery Road
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Silver Street I lived on Wreckery Road I work in Turkey Town
|Eb F |C |Eb F |C |
Rusted junk lies all around and the pictures have long been
|Eb F |C |Eb F |C |Eb F |
still the station posters peel at the end of someone's map why don't the
|C |Eb F |Dm |F C |Dm |F C |
skies just open up And de-liver me De-liver me De-
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liver me from this cold (keyboard riff)
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No strength left to riot
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Why can't the world just give and be quiet The wreckers have gone
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No victory won No victory won No victory
|Dm |F C |Dm |F C |Dm |F C |
won De-liver me De-
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liver me De-liver me from this cold
|N.C. | | | | | | | |C |
(keyboard riff)
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Wrong Side Of The River
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1.Gather round my drunken un-believers Batten down the hatchbacks come in-
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side We'll have us all some laughs and tell some stories
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Saddle up the barstools Come and take a ride You may have come from bitter disap-
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pointment You may have come as I did from a-far I
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thought I saw with pure and crystal vision From the tip of Cupid's arrow to the
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bottom of a jar Come along down with me To the wrong side of the river
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Come along down with me to the wrong__________ side of the river
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2.You may think Christ another hard luck story You
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may say he's a loser but you're wrong I simply packed up all of my ex-
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cuses I gathered up my heartaches I wrapped 'em in a bundle I
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tied 'em to a brick and then I put 'em in this song, yeah Come along down with
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with me To the wrong side of the river Come along down with me to the
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wrong_________ side of the river
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3.Seven summers gone the world exploded
I was staring out a window in chalk farm
Listening to the heater pipes eroding
Huddled round the radio, ignoring the alarm
Then all at once a siren overtook me
And shook me from my slumber with a song
That offered me salvation when it took me
To the place that I was born in, to the place where I belong
4.When every day the sun beats down upon you
And every night the heavens open wide
When all fair weather friends are driven from you
If you ever need an ally, solid at your side
Follow down the hillside to the valley
Look to where the water meets the land
If all the slaves of Hollywood desert you
Trust your heart's desire, offer me your hand
All Becomes Clear
|E A |E A |E A |E A ||:E A |
1.I feel the wind across my
|D A |E A |E A |D A |E A |
face I see a proud man fall from grace
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I've heard this battle's worth the blood I see chariots of
|D A |E A |E A |E A |D A |
dust I see a mighty army fall
|E A |E A |D A |E A |
A million immigrants step a-shore
|E A |B A |E A |D A |
With simple songs of hope Not simple songs of war
|E A |E A |C |D |
It all becomes clear from up here I can
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|1. |
|G | |C |D :||
hear my words returning We are nothing more than passengers here
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|2.
|D |E |C |
here The Gods are all emerging It all becomes clear from up
|D |G | |C |
here We've less to lose than we imagined We are nothing more than passengers
|D ||:E A |D A |E A |E A |D A |
here
Rpt ad lib
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2.Voice of velvet hands of steel
Inside the dens of the buccaneers
They say beware a bomber's moon
From the River Jordan to the sea
We blast away the earth the crust
White collar boom blue collar bust
I see wheat fields full of fire
Free men become hostages must