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Paul Mccartney
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Key: C major•
Verse 1
A
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B
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Despite repeated warnings
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Our danger's up ahead
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D
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The captain won't be listening

To what's real said
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Verse 2
A
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B
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It feels that there's a good chance
Dm
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E
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That we've been misled
Em
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D
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And so the captain's planning
E
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To steam ahead
Verse 3
Am
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What can we do, what can we do
F
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What can we do to stop
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This foolish plan going through
Am
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G

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What can we do, what can we do
F
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E
E

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This man is bound to lose his ship
G
G

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and his crew
C
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D
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Verse 4
A
A

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B
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2

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Despite repeated warnings
Dm
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E
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A
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From those who are to know
Em
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Well, he's got his own agenda

And so we'll go
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Verse 5
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We shout the loudest
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We'll not always be the smartest
E
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But they have their promised moments
Am
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Right before they fall
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G

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Red sky in the morning
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Doesn't ever seem to face him

But a sailor's warning signal
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Should concern his soul
Interlude 1
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Gm
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3

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How can we stop him?
Verse 6
Cm
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Gm
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3

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Grab the keys and lock him up
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Cm
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Gm
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If we can do it, we can save the day
Verse 7
C
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The engineer is with his wife
Em
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and daughter Janet

But he misses them so
C
C

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Although he's working with

the best crew on the planet
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They'll never want him to go
C
C

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He had a premonition

He said that something's wrong
Em
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And by his own admission

He knew it all along
C
C

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The captain's crazy but he

doesn't let them know it
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He'll take us with him if we don't do

something soon to stop him
C
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Gm
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3

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Gm
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Verse 8

G
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How can we stop him?
Cm
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Gm
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Grab the keys and lock him up
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Cm
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Gm
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If we can do it, we can save the day
Interlude 2
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Dm
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C
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Verse 9
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No brakes, the engineer cries
Em
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The cabin's gonna leak, that's

when the temperatures rise

The heat is going up,

the engine's gonna blow
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And we're gonna be left down below,
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down below
Interlude 3
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G
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Bm
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2

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Em
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Gm
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Am
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Gm
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Am
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Verse 10
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Gm
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Yes we can do it
C
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Gm
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3

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Yeah, we can do it now
C
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Gm
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Yes we can do it
Interlude 4
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Gm
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Cm
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Am
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Verse 11
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Gm
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Yes we can do it
C
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Gm
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Yeah, we can do it now
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Gm
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Yes we can do it
C
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Gm
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Yeah, we can do it now
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Gm
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Yes we can do it
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Gm
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C
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Yeah, we can do it now
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Oh yeah
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Gm
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Verse 12
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Even life would work out

the way you plan it
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And that'd be so fine

for the wife and Janet
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Sometimes you might have

to battle through it
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But that's the way you learn
Verse 13

how you got to do it
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Yes we can do it
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Yeah, we can do it
C
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G
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Yes we can do it
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Yeah, we can do it
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Verse 14
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B
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Despite repeated warnings
Fdim
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Our danger's up ahead
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While the captain wasn't listening

To what was said
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Verse 15
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So we went to the captain
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And told him to turn round
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But he laughs in our faces
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Says that we are mistaken
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So we gather around him
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And everyone stood around him
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Oh, but he should have listened
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To the will of the people
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It's the will of the people

It's the will of the people
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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • A

  • B

    2

  • Dm

  • E

  • Em

  • D

  • Am

  • G

  • F

  • C

  • Gm

    3

  • Cm

    3

  • Bm

    2

  • Bb

  • Eb

    6

  • Fdim

    3

Capo: 0

Transpose: 0

0

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The original key of Despite Repeated Warnings by Paul McCartney is C major.

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