Help Save The Youth Of America chords by
Billy Bragg

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Key: G major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Help save the
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youth of America
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Help save them from themselves
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Help save the sun-tanned
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surfer surfer boys
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And the Californian girls

Verse 2
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When the lights go out in
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the rest of the world
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What do our cousins say?
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They're playing in the sun and having fun,
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fun, fun
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'Til Daddy takes the gun away

Verse 3

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From the Big Church to the Big River

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And out to the Shining Sea

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This is the Land of Opportunity

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And there's a monkey trial on TV

Verse 4

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A nation with their freezers full

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Are dancing in their seats

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While outside another nation

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Is sleeping in the streets

Verse 5

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Don't tell me the old, old story

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Tell me the truth this time

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Is the Man in the Mask or the Indian

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An enemy or a friend of mine?

Interlude 1

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Verse 6

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Help save the youth of America

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Help save the youth of the world

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Help save the boys in uniform

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Their mothers and their faithful girls

Verse 7

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Listen to the voice of the soldier

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Down in the killing zone

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Talking about the cost of living

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And the price of bringing him home

Verse 8
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They're already shipping
the body bags
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Down below the Rio Grande
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But you can fight
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for democracy at home
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And not in some foreign land

Verse 9

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And the fate of the great United States

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Is entwined in the fate of us all

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And the incident at Tschernobyl proves

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The world we live in is very small

Verse 10
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And the cities of Europe
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have burned before
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And they may yet burn again
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And if they do I hope you understand
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That Washington will burn with them
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Omaha will burn with them
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Los Alamos will burn with them
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