The Perfect Bomb chords by Tom Paxton

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Key: F#F#

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Some friends and I have worked
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for years in deepest secrecy
D MajorD
The work went on around the clock and
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I look for a treat
D MajorD
We've built the perfect
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weapon, we're unveiling it today
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It turns the tanks to butter,
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but the people walk away.

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Oh The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G             D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
D MajorD
It's impossible to stop,
   E MajorE        A augmentedA
I can hardly wait to drop
D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G         D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
G+G           A augmentedA
I'll tell you what I'm counting on,
  D MajorD A augmentedA  D MajorD
the bomb, the bomb

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
The blast extends for
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miles and it doesn't harm a soul
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Every missile warhead turns into a lump of coal
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The guns all turn to licorice,
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the knives all break in two
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The grenades are filled with flowers,
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colored red and white and Blue.

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Oh The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G             D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
D MajorD
It's impossible to stop,
   E MajorE        A augmentedA
I can hardly wait to drop
D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G         D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
G+G           A augmentedA
I'll tell you what I'm counting on,
  D MajorD A augmentedA  D MajorD
the bomb, the bomb

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
The wonders of our
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perfect bomb are very strange to tell
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It doesn't only change the guns,
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it changes hearts as well
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An instant of exposure to its penetrating ray
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Will turn a Yassar Arafat into a Danny Kay

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Oh The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G             D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
D MajorD
It's impossible to stop,
   E MajorE        A augmentedA
I can hardly wait to drop
D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G         D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
G+G           A augmentedA
I'll tell you what I'm counting on,
  D MajorD A augmentedA  D MajorD
the bomb, the bomb

🎸 Verse:
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But perhaps its greatest feature,
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its happiest surprise
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Is the way our perfect weapon
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searches out the meanest lies
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It captures them completely,
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and before the bomb is through
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Every word a politician says is absolutely true

🎸 Outro:
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Oh The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G             D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
D MajorD
It's impossible to stop,
   E MajorE        A augmentedA
I can hardly wait to drop
D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bomb, the bomb,
  G+G         D MajorD
we finally built the perfect bomb
G+G           A augmentedA
I'll tell you what I'm counting on,
  D MajorD A augmentedA  D MajorD
the bomb, the bomb
G+G           A augmentedA
I'll tell you what I'm counting on,
  D MajorD A augmentedA  D MajorD
the bomb, the bomb