The Perfect Bomb chords by Tom Paxton

• Capo on 4th

Key: F#

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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