Holy Wars The Punishment Due chords by Megadeth

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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



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

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

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

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

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