Chords with lyrics
Are these the people that we should bomb
FF G+G
Are we so sure they mean us harm
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime
FF G+G
Is this a mountain that we really want to climb
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
The road is hard, hard and long
FF
Put down that two by four
G+G C majorC
This man would never turn you from his door
E MajorE E7E7
Oh George! Oh George!
FF G+G C majorC
That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart,
FF G+G C majorC
Fulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car
E MajorE E7E7
We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze
FF G+G
Got bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes
FF
Our dads had helped them win the war
G+G C majorC
When we all knew what we were fighting for
E MajorE E7E7
But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge
FF G+G
The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge
C majorC
Is gentleness too much for us
E MajorE E7E7 FF
Should gentleness be filed along with empathy
G+G
We feel for someone else's child
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong
FF G+G
Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
America, America, please hear us when we call
FF
You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
G+G
You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell
C majorC
You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,
E MajorE E7E7
Wildernesses and malls
FF
Don't let the might, the Christian right,
G+G C majorC
Fuck it all up for you and the rest of the world
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you
FF G+G
Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
History's not written by the vanquished or the damned
FF G+G
Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
In 1961 they took this child into their home
FF G+G
I wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
If I could find them now, could I make amends?
FF G+G C majorC
How does the story end?
This is one of my favourite songs by Roger Waters and is incredible live. Any feedback,