Chords with lyrics
THE BALLAD OF BILL HUBBARD
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FF
G minorGm
G minorGm
D7D7
WHAT GOD WANTS PART I
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G minorGm
The kid in the corner looked at the priest
And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar
The priest said,
God wants goodness
God wants light
God wants mayhem
God wants a clean fight
What God wants God gets
E minorEm
Don't look so surprised
C majorC
It's only dogma
C majorC
The alien prophet cried
F/E
The beetle and the springbok
Eb MajorEb
Took the Bible from its hook
Dsus4Dsus4
The monkey in the corner Wrote
D MajorD
the lesson in his book
G minorGm
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets
God wants peace
God wants war
God wants famine
God wants chain stores
What God wants God gets
God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants semtex
What God wants God gets
E minorEm
Don't look so surprised
C majorC
I'm only joking
C majorC
The alien comic cried
F/E
The jackass and hyena
Eb MajorEb
Took the feather from its hook
Dsus4Dsus4
The monkey in the corner
D MajorD
Wrote the joke down in his book
G minorGm
What God wants God gets
God wants boarders
God wants crack
God wants rainfall
God wants wetbacks
What God wants God gets
God wants voodoo
God wants shrines
God wants law
God wants organized crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good
C majorC
God wants bad
C majorC
What God wants God gets
PERFECT SENSE PART I
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Eb MajorEb
FF
DbDb
Eb MajorEb
AbAb
The monkey sat on a pile of stones
DbDb
And stared at the broken bone in his hand
GbGb
And the stains of a Viennese quartet
DbDb
Rang out across the land
DbDb
The monkey looked up at the stars
GbGb
And thought to himself
CbCb
Memory is a stranger
History is for fools
E MajorE
And he cleaned his hands
In a pool of holy writing
A augmentedA
Turned his back on the garden
BB
And set out for the nearest town
E MajorE
Hold on hold on soldier
When you add it all up
A augmentedA
The tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
D MajorD
And an ounce of pride in each ledger
And the Germans killed the Jews
And the Jews killed the Arabs
G+G
And the Arabs killed the hostages
And that is the news
A augmentedA
And is it any wonder
That the monkey's confused
D MajorD
He said Mama Mama
The President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading
G+G
These technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
C majorC
Don't make us laugh
You're a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory is a stranger
FF
History is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty
G+G
And they gave him command
Of a nuclear submarine
And sent him back in search of
C majorC
The Garden of Eden
PERFECT SENSE PART II
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C majorC
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
G+G
Pounds shillings and pence
DmDm
Can't you see
C majorC
It all makes perfect sense
C majorC
Little black soul departs in perfect focus
C majorC
Prime time fodder for the News at Nine
Bb majorBb
Darling is the child warm in the bed tonight
C minorCm
Hi everybody I'm Marv Albert
And welcome to our telecast
Eb MajorEb
Coming to you live from Memorial Stadium
It's a beautiful day
FF
And today we expect a sensational matchup
But first our global anthem
Bb majorBb
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
FF
Pounds shillings and pence
C minorCm
Can't you see
Bb majorBb
It all makes perfect sense
And here come the players
F minorFm
As I speak to you now the captain
Bb majorBb
Has his cross hairs zeroed in on the oil rig
It looks to me like he's going to attack
F minorFm
By the way did you know that a submarine
Captain earns 200,000 dollars a year
Bb majorBb
Oh that's less tax Marv yeah less tax
Uh thank you Emery you're welcome
Bb majorBb
Now back to the game he fires one yes
There goes two both fish are running
DbDb
The rig is going into a prevent defense
Eb MajorEb
Will they make it I don't think so
AbAb
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Eb MajorEb
Pounds shillings and pence
DbDb
Can't you see
AbAb
It all makes perfect sense
DbDb
Can't you see
AbAb
It all makes perfect sense
THE BRAVERY OF BEING OUT OF RANGE
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D MajorD
D
D MajorD
D
A/D
You have a natural tendency, to squeeze off a shot
D MajorD
You're good fun at parties, you wear the right masks
D MajorD
You're old, but you still like a laugh in the locker room
D MajorD
You can't abide change, you're at home on the range
A/D
You opened the suitcase, behind the old workings
D MajorD
To show off the magnum, you deafened the canyon
Dsus2Dsus2
A augmentedA comfort a friend, only upstaged in the end
By the Uzi machine gun
D MajorD
Does the recoil remind you...
E minorEm
Remind you of sex
D MajorD
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next
D MajorD
Old timer who you gonna kill next
(repeat chord pattern)
I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris
I swam in your pools and lay under your palm trees
I looked in the eyes of the Indian
Who lay on the Federal Building steps
And through the range finder over the hill
I saw the frontline boys popping their pills
Sick of the mess they find
On their desert stage
And the bravery of being out of range
Yeah the question is vexed
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next
Old timer who you gonna kill next
Bridge
A augmentedA
A majorA
D MajorD
Ooh.............
Hey bartender, over here
Two more shots and two more beers
Sir, turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They're really great for righting wrongs
You hit the target and win the game from bars
3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away
D MajorD
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim with the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train with the bravery of being out of range
We gain terrain with the bravery of being out of range
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
LATE HOME TONIGHT PART I
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Gmaj7Gmaj7
Gm6Gm6
D MajorD
Standing at the window
Gmaj7Gmaj7
A augmentedA farmer's wife in Oxfordshire
D MajorD
Glances at the clock it's nearly time for tea
She doesn't see
Gm6Gm6
The phantom in the hedgerow dip its wings
Doesn't hear the engine sing
E minor 7Em7
But in the cockpit's techno glow
A augmentedA
Behind the Ray Ban(R) shine
BdimBdim
The kid from Cleveland
In the comfort of routine
Gmaj7Gmaj7
Scans his dials and smiles
Gmaj7Gmaj7
Secure in the beauty of military life
E minor 7Em7
There is no right or wrong
Only tin cans and cordite and white cliffs
A7A7
And blue skies and flight flight flight
D/AD/A
The beauty of military life
D MajorD
No questions only orders and flight only flight
E minor 7Em7
What a beautiful sight in his wild blue dream
A7A7
The eternal child leafs through his War magazine
And his kind Uncle Sam feeds ten trillion in
D MajorD
Change into the total entertainment
Combat video game
E minor 7Em7
And up here in the stands
The fans are goin' wild
A7A7
The cheerleaders flip
When you wiggle your hip
And we all like the bit when you take
The jeans from the refrigerator and
D MajorD
Then the bad guy gets hit
E minor 7Em7
And were you struck by the satisfying
Way the swimsuit sticks to her skin
A7A7
Like BB gun days
When knives pierce autumn leaves
But that's okay see the children bleed
A7aug
It'll look great on the TV
Gm6Gm6
Gmaj7Gmaj7
And in Tripoli another ordinary wife
E minor 7Em7
Stares at the dripping her old man hadn't
A7A7
Time to fix
Too busy mixing politics and rhythm
D6D6
In the street below
LATE HOME TONIGHT PART II
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D MajorD
Hark the wire service sing
E minor 7Em7
Clear the satellite link
Check the fax machine
A7A7
Hold the lead story boys
D MajorD
There's some great pictures coming in
Now the pilot's heartbeat slows
E minor 7Em7
Palms dry out
No questions only orders
A7A7
And the F-1 glides in nose-up
Through the cloudbase and the
Ground crew cheers as he puts down
D MajorD
His landing gear
D7D7
Hey boy you're a hero take this cigar
C majorC
Back home in Cleveland
A augmentedA
All the papers and local TV stations
D MajorD
Will be calling your ma
E minor 7Em7
And the farmer's wife
Shoos the cat off the chair
A7A7
She says sit down my dear
Was the milking all right
D MajorD
Our American friends are late home tonight
TOO MUCH ROPE
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Gm6Gm6
Cmaj7Cmaj7
G+G
C7C7
When the sleigh is heavy, and the timberwolves are getting bold,
Am7Am7
You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship
D MajorD
With your toe.
A minorAm
And they significantly edge closer to the gold...
G+G
Each man has his price, Bob...and yours was pretty low.
C7C7
Now history is short, the sun is just a minor star.
D MajorD
And the poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
A minorAm
Que sera sera, is that your new Ferrari car?
D MajorD
Nice... but I think I'll wait for the F-fifty
G7G7
You don't have to be a Jew...to disapprove of murder
Cmaj7Cmaj7
Tears burn my eyes;
Am7Am7
Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
Dm6Dm6
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote, "Give any one species
C majorC
Too much rope and they'll fuck it up?
C7C7
Last night on TV, a Vietnam vet took his beard and his pain
D MajorD
And his alienation of 20 years...back to Asia again.
A minorAm
Sees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating 'round.
FF
Meets a gook on a bike...a good enough guy,
D MajorD
With the same soldier's eyes.
Cmaj7Cmaj7
E minorEm
What does it mean, this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
Dm6Dm6
That it moves me so much, why all the fuss?
Fmaj7Fmaj7
It's only two humans being...it's only... two humans being;
G minorGm
Tears burn in my eyes...what does it mean? This tender TV?
C7C7
This tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
F7F7
And you don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder
G minorGm
Tears burn my eyes....Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
DmDm
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote:
FF
"Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up?”
G minorGm
Eb/GEb/G
WHAT GOD WANTS PART II
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TV Evangelist:]"Do you believe in a better day?
Do you have faith in a golden way?
If you do, then we must come together this day
Come together as one, united television audience
Brought together by the sound of my voice
United, united financially, united socially,
United spiritually, and all possible ways
Through the power of money
And the power of prayers...."
G minorGm
What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants dollars
God wants cents
God wants pounds, shillings, and pence
God wants guilders
God wants Kroner
God wants Swiss francs
God wants French francs
(Oui il veut des francs francais)
God wants escudos
God wants pesetas
Don't send lira
God don't want small potatoes
God wants small towns
God wants pain
God wants clean up rock campaigns
God wants windows
God wants solutions
God wants TV
God wants contributions
What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants silver
God wants gold
God wants his secret
Never to be told
God wants gigolos
God wants giraffes
God wants politics
God wants a good laugh
What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants friendship
God wants fame
God wants credit
God wants blame
God wants poverty
God wants wealth
God wants insurance
God wants to cover himself
What God wants God gets God help us all
WHAT GOD WANTS PART III
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C majorC
Don't be afraid, it's only business
C majorC
The alien prophet sighed
F/E
The vulture and the magpie took
Eb MajorEb
The cash box from its hook
Dsus4Dsus4
The monkey in the corner
D MajorD
Wrote the figures in his book
Em/DEm/D
Crazed the checkout lady's fingers
Flash across the till
C majorC
And the captain posts the menu of the day
E minorEm
And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
F/CF/C
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
C majorC
Get down on their knees and pray
F/E
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Eb MajorEb
Make up bags of change
Dsus4Dsus4
But the monkey in the corner
D MajorD
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
GbGb
G#G#
C#C#
Christ, it's freezing inside
D#D#
The veteran cries
D/AD/A
The hyenas break cover
A augmentedA
And stream through the meadow
C#C#
And the fog rolls in
D#/D#
To his bottle of gin
D/AD/A
So he picks up a stone
A augmentedA
That looks like a bone
D MajorD
And the bullets fly
And the rivers run dry
D/C#
And the fat girls sigh
C majorC
And the network anchor persons lie
Bsus4Bsus4
And the soldier's alone
In the video zone
BB
But the monkey's not watching
He's slipped out to the kitchen
To pile the dishes
E minorEm
And answer the phone
WATCHING TV
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*D **Ddim5
(repeat as necessary)
E minor 7Em7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
E minor 7Em7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
A7A7
A7
D MajorD
E minor 7Em7
In Tiananmen Square, Lost my baby there
E minor 7Em7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
A7A7
She was a short order pastry chef
A7A7
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
G/BG/B
She had shiny hair
D MajorD
She was the daughter of an engineer
E minor 7Em7
Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
E minor 7Em7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
A7A7
She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes
A7A7
She had almond eyes, She had yellow thighs
D MajorD
She was a student of philosophy
E minor 7Em7
Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose,
D MajorD
Shed a tear, For her bloodstained clothes
E minor 7Em7
She had shiny hair, She had perfect breasts
D MajorD
She had high hopes, She had almond eyes
G/F#
She had yellow thighs
D MajorD
She was the daughter of an engineer
C majorC
So get out your pistols, Get out your stones
C majorC
Get out your knives, Cut them to the bone
E minor 7Em7
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
C majorC
They built the dark satanic mills
C majorC
That manufacture hell on earth
E minor 7Em7
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
D MajorD
They are irrelevant to me
**D **Ddim5
And I grieve for my sister
People of China
Do not forget do not forget
The children who died for you
Long live the Republic
Did we do anything after this
I've a feeling we did
E minor 7Em7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
E minor 7Em7
We were watching TV, Watching TV
A7A7
She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now'
Cadd9Cadd9
She thought the Great Wall of China
A7A7
Would come tumbling down
G/F#
She was a student
D MajorD
Her father was an engineer
E minor 7Em7
Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
E minor 7Em7
My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
A7A7
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
A7A7
That no-good low-down dirty rat
C/BC/B
Who used to order his troops
D MajorD
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
E minor 7Em7
And in the spring of '48
E minor 7Em7
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
E minor 7Em7
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
D MajorD
Out of the state of China
E minor 7Em7
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
A7A7
And they armed the island of Quemoy
G+G
And the shells were flying across the China Sea
D MajorD
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan
Cadd9Cadd9
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
Cadd9Cadd9
She's different from Anne Boleyn
E minor 7Em7
She is different from the Rosenbergs
D MajorD
And from the unknown Jew
G+G
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
G/F#
Half superstar half victim
D MajorD
She's a victor star conceptually new
Cadd9Cadd9
And she is different from the Dodo
Cadd9Cadd9
And from the Kankanbono
E minor 7Em7
She is different from the Aztec
D MajorD
And from the Cherokee
Cadd9Cadd9
She's everybody's sister
Cadd9Cadd9
She's symbolic of our failure
E minor 7Em7
She's the one in fifty million
D MajorD
Who can help us to be free
G+G
Because she died on TV
THREE WISHES
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C minorCm
Cm (Repeat Trough lyric until change)
Reached back for the bottle
And rubbed against the lamp
Genie came out smiling
Like some Eastern tramp
He said, hey boy what's happening
What is going on
You can have three wishes
If you don't take too long
If you don't take too long
I said well
I wish they were all happy in the Lebanon
Wish somebody'd help me write this song
And I wish when I was young
My old man had not been gone
Genie said consider it done
Eb MajorEb
There's something in the air
Bb majorBb
And you don't know what it is
Eb MajorEb
You see someone through the window
Bb majorBb
Who you've just learned to miss
AbAb
And the road leads on to glory but
Eb MajorEb
You used up your last wish
Bb majorBb
Your last wish
And you want her to come home
C minorCm
Bring her home
Genie said I'm sorry
That's the way it goes
Where the hell's the lamp sucker
It's time for me to go
Bye
C minorCm
Cm
C minorCm
Cm
Eb MajorEb
There's something in the air
Bb majorBb
And you don't know what it is
Eb MajorEb
You see someone through the window
Bb majorBb
Who you've just learned to miss
AbAb
And the road leads on to glory but
Eb MajorEb
You used up your last wish
Bb majorBb
Your last wish
And you want her to come home
ITS A augmentedA MIRRICAL
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F# minorF#m
Miraculous you call it babe, you ain't seen nothing yet.
F# minorF#m
They got Pepsi in the Andes, they got McDonalds in Tibet.
F# minorF#m
Yosemite's been turned into a golf course for the Japs,
F# minorF#m
The Dead Sea is alive with rap.
F# minorF#m
Between the Tigris and Euphrates, there's a leisure centre now
F# minorF#m
They got all kinds of sports, they got Bermuda shorts
F# minorF#m
They had sex in Pennsylvania, a Brazilian grew a tree
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA doctor in Manhattan, saved a dying man for free
B minorBm
It's a miracle
F# minorF#m
It's a miracle
D MajorD
It's a miracle
F#F#
Another miracle
G+G
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
F#F#
The human race has civilized itself
E minorEm
It's a miracle
E minorEm
F#sus4F#sus4
Verse 2
(continue chord pattern)
We got warehouses of butter, we got oceans of wine.
We got famine when we need it, we got designer crime.
We got Mercedes, we got Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls Royce,
Yeah, we got choice.
She said meet me in the Garden of Gethsemene my dear,
The Lord said Peter I can see your house from here.
An honest man finally reaped what he had sown.
And a farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loan.
It's a miracle
It's a miracle
It's a miracle
It's a miracle
Another miracle
G+G
By the grace of God Almighty and the pressures of the marketplace
F#F#
The human race has civilized itself
F#F#
It's a miracle
Verse 3
We cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theatre
But the operetta lingers
Then the piano lid comes down
and breaks his fucking fingers
It's a miracle.
AMUSED TO DEATH
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E minorEm
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
E minorEm
This supermarket life is getting long
E minorEm
What is the heart life of a colour TV
C majorC
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
G+G
Ooh Western woman
G+G
Ooh Western girl
B minorBm
New hounds sniff the air
E minorEm
When Jessica Hahn goes down
E minorEm
He latches onto that symbol of detachment
E minorEm
attracted by the peeling away of feeling
C majorC
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
G+G
Ooh Western woman
G+G
Ooh Western girl
G+G
Ooh Western woman
G+G
Ooh Western girl
D MajorD
And the children of Melrose
Dsus2Dsus2
Strut their stuff
G+G
Is absolute zero cold enough
D MajorD
And out in the valley warm and clean
G+G
The little ones sit by their TV screens
D MajorD
No thoughts to think
G+G
No tears to cry
B minorBm
All sucked dry
G+G
Down to the very last breath
A augmentedA
Bartender what is wrong with me?
A augmentedA
Why am I so out of breath?
A augmentedA
The captain said excuse me ma'am
A augmentedA
This species has amused itself to death
(intro notes comes in full force)
G+G
Amused itself to death
G+G
Amused itself to death
G+G
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
D MajorD
We bought and sold
G+G
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
D MajorD
we ohhed and aahed
D MajorD
we drove our racing cars
G+G
We ate our last few jars of cavier
D MajorD
And somewhere out there in the stars
D MajorD
A augmentedA keen-eyed look-out
G+G
Spied a flickering light
D MajorD
Our last hurrah
G+G
Our last hurrah
A augmentedA
And when they found our shadows
A augmentedA
Grouped around the TV sets
A augmentedA
They ran down every lead
A augmentedA
They repeated every test
G+G
They checked out all the data on their lists
B minorBm
And then the alien anthropologists
E minorEm
Admitted they were still perplexed
D MajorD
But on eliminating every other reason
G+G
For our sad demise
G+G
They logged the explanation left
B minorBm
This species has amused itself to death
E minorEm
Em
repeat and fade
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