Fifty In Five chords by Hilltop Hoods

Tuning: Standard

♫ Intro:

Am Am7 FM7 E E/G#   (x2)


♫ Verse 1:
Am
Terror cleared the skyline
    Am7
and anger clouded judgement
        FM7
So they spent a thousand night times
       E               E/G#
In the desert fighting something
          Am
that they couldn't find
             Am7
That made it something that

they couldn't fight
FM7
Left us all lamenting, all the
E                E/G#
wrongs that they couldn't right
Am
This is for the second time
           Am7
that we've been here before
         FM7
From Vietnam to Saddam,
          E           E/G#
we always needing a war
Am                     Am7
Neo Conservatives rose up like Viet Cong
N.C
Their fingers on the trigger,

we won't be here for long


♫ Verse 2:
     Am             Am7
They killed MLK and named a day

after him
     FM7
They killed JFK and named an
E       E/G#
airport after him
     Am                        Am7
Some guy shot a monster called Reagan

so he could bone
  FM7
A girl named Jodie Foster,
   E         E/G#
if only he'd known
          Am
We tested nukes in the atmosphere,
    Am7
the sea and the dirt
         FM7
And they tested all these missiles
        E           E/G#
just to see if they worked


♫ Verse 3:
    Am
Now France got 'em, Russia got 'em,
Am7
India and Pakistan
  FM7
Korea want 'em, States want 'em,
E              E/G#
pointed at the Taliban
  Am
Iran and Afghanistan,
Am7
sands of the Arab lands
FM7                     E
Orders from portable commands in
         E/G#
armoured caravans
Am           Am7
Internet, 3G cellular phones
       FM7                E
Serial killers built mini-cells
         E/G#
in their homes


♫ Verse 4:
           Am             Am7
And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy,

Son of Sam
FM7                 E
Macarena, Superman, Chicken Dance,
E/G#
Running Man
Am               Am7
Generation X and Generation Y
        FM7
And the generation next will
   E           E/G#
degenerate and die
              Am
'Cause we got holes in the ozone
        G
that we put there ourselves

Now the poles are a no-go,
        Bm        C
earth's cooking itself


♫ Verse 5:
             Am
And we can't look at ourselves
          Am7            FM7
So we got saline, botox, eighteen,
           E         E/G#
fake tits, nineteen, detox
Am
Don't stop, get it, get it,
Am7
can't afford it, get it credit
FM7                               E
Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat
         E/G#
When you better shed it!


♫ Verse 6:
Am                      Am7
Ab Swing, Blue Blocker, Tupac or Biggie
FM7                     E          E/G#
East Coast, West Coast, Fat Joe or Fifty
Am                   Am7
Thatcher, the shifty Iron Lady, Tony Blair
  FM7                 E
A princess died, some say
               E/G#
'cause she got Dodi there
Am                Am7
Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise of
   FM7
No children in poverty,
          E               E/G#
wish that could have been honest


♫ Verse 7:
       Am
We had Abbott and Costello,
Am7
right wing overlords
FM7
Promises and children,
     E              E/G#
they threw 'em both overboard
Am                   Am7
Overwrought refugees thrown to a group home
   FM7
Or jailed for the crime of
E             E/G#
looking for a new home


♫ Verse 8:
Am                        Am7
Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died
            FM7
Genocide in Africa, Serbia,
   E      E/G#
Cambodia, pesticides
Am          Am7
Bio-toxins, chemical warfare
FM7
All's fair in love and war,
     E            E/G#
more work for the pallbearer
Am                  Am7
More terror, more unjust

search and seizures
  FM7
A tidal wave came and claimed the
E            E/G#
coast of Indonesia


♫ Verse 9:
Am                Am7
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California
FM7
Greenhouse gas turned the
E            E/G#
world into a sauna
    Am                 Am7
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters
   FM7                E
Of partners, mourners fathers
    E/G#
and daughters
     Am
They chased us, caught us,
Am7
numbered us to sort us
FM7
Raped us, scorned us,
   E             E/G#
to break us they bought us
Am                      Am7
Third world kidneys for captains

of industry
FM7
Uprising in the street,
  E               E/G#
corruption in the ministry
  Am                        Am7
A blowj*b brought about the fall

of a dynasty
    FM7           E          E/G#
And MP3's saw the fall of an industry


♫ Verse 10:
Am                  Am7
Doubled population, halved accommodation
FM7
Carved up resources and we
E                  E/G#
starved the poorer nations
Am                Am7
Beirut, Chechnya, all hell broke loose
FM7                     E
Berlin, nineteen eighty nine, man,
    E/G#
the wall fell
Am
Cold war ended but that
Am7
didn't stop more shells
FM7              E               E/G#
Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells
Am             Am7
  A world laid waste with addiction
     FM7
Tell Orwell truth's always
E              E/G#
stranger than fiction


♫ Verse 11:
    Am                          Am7
Big Brother's on closed circuit TV

and on cable
  FM7
Reality's now scripted,
  E             E/G#
celebrity's for sale
Am                 Am7
Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed
     FM7                          E E/G#
Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's
           Am
We had the Enron collapse and
Am7
white-collar crime and
  FM7                       E            E/G#
Investors they were taxed a dollar for a dime
    Am                      Am7
The blue chip companies and blue-sky mines
      FM7                    E          E/G#
We no longer choose sides we choose sidelines


♫ Bridge:
      Am
(Rich bleeding the kind,
      Am7
blind leading the blind)
     FM7                    E           E/G#
(And history repeats, no competing with time)
        Am                      Am7
(Gasses eating the minds of the Vets

that they bring home)
     FM7
(The plague of Agent Orange,
E        E/G#
Gulf War Syndrome)
Am                   Am7
 (Soldiers sent home Posttraumatic

stress leave)
 FM7              E            E/G#
(STD's 'cause the sleeve ain't sexy)
Am                             Am7
(AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper

with a bowling ball)
   FM7
(Metallica, kill 'em all,
E       E/G#
let god scold 'em all)


♫ Verse 12:
    Am              Am7
The Guildford Four, Chicago Seven
FM7             E        E/G#
Mumia, Mandela, Ocean's Eleven
Am                  Am7
Half past twelve on Friday the Thirteenth
FM7                E            E/G#
Dawn of the Dead a Nightmare On Elm Street
Am
Weapons free environment,
Am7
war zone, phone home
FM7                 E           E/G#
Melanoma grow as we soak in the ozone
Am                   Am7
Home-grown, (Hydro), Cocaine, (Nitro)
FM7                   E       E/G#
Werewolf in London, (American Psycho), check


♫ Verse 13:
Am                   Am7
Cyclones, bushfires, Bush firing Scuds
FM7
Baby Boomers, Woodstock,
     E               E/G#
what happened to the love?
     Am                         Am7
What happened to the cubs? They fed

'em to the wolves
FM7
Set a trial for pedophiles, they
E              E/G#
let 'em in the schools!
Am                       Am7
Set 'em on the students, turned

'em on the kids and
FM7                         E
Everyone responsible should burn
              E/G#
for what they did!


♫ Verse 14:
            Am
And if they try to deny
        Am7
then an eye for an eye, the
FM7
Government and church on which
   E        E/G#
we try to rely, both
Am                           Am7
Rob us 'til it hurts chasing lie

after lie like
FM7                  E          E/G#
Astronauts chasing a pie in the sky, they
Am
Landed on the moon but can't
Am7
seem to return there
FM7
Makes some question if they
E           E/G#
ever really were there
Am                      Am7
 And if they were there now

and they looked back
FM7                        E
 Could we look them in the eye,
         E/G#
could we look back?
Am                        Am7
 'Cause when we look back at

what we have done
          FM7        E       E/G#
Can you believe what we've become?


♫ Outro:
Am              Am7
 And as we walk into the sun
          FM7                  E  E/G#
Can you believe what we have become?
Am          Am7
 As we walk into the sun

FM7 E Am





Chords used in Fifty in Five by Hilltop Hoods:
Am, Am7, Bm, C, E, E/G#, FM7, G