Living with war    (intro)

 

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C                        Am             C    - G

    I'm living with war every day,

C                        Am              F               G

    I'm living with war in my heart every day,

C                       Am            F     - G

    I'm living with war right now.

 

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1.    And when the dawn breaks          I see my fellow man,

C                                           G                   F          C

    and on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again.

                                            - G                   C

    And when the night falls,       I pray for peace,

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    try to remember peace.

 

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2.     I join the multitudes,       I raise my hand in peace,

C                                G                  F           C

    I never bow to the laws of the thought police.

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    I take a holy vow         to never kill again,

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    to never kill again.

 

C                        Am              F     - G

    I'm living with war in my heart,

C                        Am             F                   G

    I'm living with war in my heart and my mind,

C                        Am           F       - G

    I'm living with war right now.

 

    C                                           - G             

3.     Don't take no tidal wave,         don't take no mass grave,

C                                                  G                    F             C

    don't take no smokin' gun to show how the West was won.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    But when the curtain falls,       I pray for peace,

                   G           F

    try to remember peace.

 

    C                                       - G

4.     In the crowded streets,          in the big hotels,

C                                          G                F         C

    in the mosques and the doors of the old museum,

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    I take a holy vow        to never kill again,

                   G            F          - C ~ G-C ~

    try to remember peace.

 

F                                                                    C

    The rocket's red glare, bombs bursting in air,

F                                                                                C

    give proof through the night, that our flag is still there.

 

+ C - Am - C - G          - C - Am - F - G          - C - Am - F - G

 

C                        Am            C    - G

    I'm living with war everyday,

C                        Am             F               G

    I'm living with war in my heart everyday,

C                        Am           F       - G

    I'm living with war right now.

 

C                        Am           C        - G

    I'm living with war right now.

C                        Am             F               G

    I'm living with war in my heart everyday,

C                        Am           F      - G

    I'm living with war right now.

 

+ C - Am - C - G     - C - Am - F - G      - C - Am - F - G     - C

 

(orig. = capo 4th)    (Neil Young)