Holy Wars The Punishment Due chords by Megadeth

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🤘 Verse 1:
E minorEm                 D MajorD
Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
A augmentedA                C majorC
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
E minorEm                  D MajorD
Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands


A augmentedA                    C majorC
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?
 E minorEm           D MajorD
A augmentedA country that's divided
Surely will not stand
  A augmentedA               C majorC
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand
  E minorEm                  D MajorD
The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
A augmentedA              C majorC
Don't look now to Israel
It might be your homelands
E minorEm
Holy wars

🤘 Verse 2:
E minorEm                     D MajorD
Upon my podium, as the Know it all scholar
E minorEm                             D MajorD
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
E minorEm                            D MajorD
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my
E minorEm                       D MajorD   E minorEm
Pulpit as the holier
Than-thou, could-be-messenger of God

🤘 Interlude:
e|--0---0---0--|x4
b|--0---5---0--|
g|--0---4---5--|
d|--2---2---4--|
a|--2---2---3--|
E MajorE|--0---0---0--|

🤘 Verse 3:
E minorEm       D MajorD
Wage the war on organized crime
A augmentedA               C majorC         D MajorD
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
E minorEm                D MajorD
  Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
A augmentedA          C majorC   D MajorD
 Either way they die. They die

🤘 Solo:
G+G Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb G+G F# minorF#m FF E minorEm

🤘 Interlude:
e|--0---0---0--|x2
b|--0---5---0--|
g|--0---4---5--|
d|--2---2---4--|
a|--2---2---3--|
E MajorE|--0---0---0--|

🤘 Verse 4:
   E minorEm             D MajorD
They killed my wife and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
A augmentedA         C majorC  D MajorD
 First mistake  last mistake
E minorEm          D MajorD
Paid by the alliance
to slay all the giants
A augmentedA        C majorC    D MajorD
 Next mistake  no more mistakes!

🤘 Solo:
G+G Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb G+G F# minorF#m FF E minorEm

🤘 Verse 5:
E minorEm            D MajorD
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
 A augmentedA              C majorC
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't Thinkin' it
E minorEm                       D MajorD
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
 A augmentedA              C majorC
I know what I said, now I must  scream
    E minorEm  D MajorD
of the ov-er-dose
    A augmentedA       C majorC
And the lack of mercy killers
   E minorEm       D MajorD
Mercy killings, mercy killers
    A augmentedA
Killers killers killers
C majorC              D MajorD         E minorEm
Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away.

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