Key: G major
Intro 1
F#
Verse 1
F#
Now your Father has told you
G#m
Son you're naive
C#
To still be out lookin'
F#
For something to believe
The realities of power
G#m
Are above your ideals
C#
And he sure has good reasons
F#
For the way that he feels
Verse 2
F#
For man has never hesitated
G#m
To do violent deeds
C#
To rav age this earth
G#m
F#
And take more than he needs
Can there be any doubt
G#m
To the size of his crimes
C#
After all that we've seen
B
F#
Within our own times
Verse 3
F#
Oh but what kind of logic
G#m
In what kind of brain
C#
A#m
What manner of man
B
F#
Would think it was sane
What kind of soul
G#m
And what heart that beats
C#
A#m
Would chose to kill millions
C#
B
F#
For an honorable peace
C#
B
C#
Verse 4
B
F#
There are those who will argue
G#m
It's all too complex
C#
You must live past the present
B
F#
To see it's effects
As if the peasant in the fields
G#m
Hearing planes in the sky
C#
Waits for history to tell him
G#m
F#
It's his turn to die
Verse 5
F#
Now I'm sorry that you have to hear
G#m
These words tonight
C#
They're not pleasant to sing
B
F#
C#
They're not pleasant to write
F#
I know the tide of protest
G#m
Has passed us somehow
C#
Oh but when do you speak out
B
F#
If you don't speak out now
Verse 6
F#
Tell me What
kind of logic
G#m
In what kind of brain
C#
What manner of man
B
F#
Would think it was sane
What kind of soul
G#m
And what heart that beats
C#
Would chose to kill millions
B
F#
For an honorable peace
Verse 7
F#
Tell me
What kind of logic
G#m
In what kind of brain
C#
What manner of man
B
F#
Would think it was sane
What kind of soul
G#m
In what heart that beats
C#
Would chose to kill millions
B
F#
For an honorable peace
Verse 8
F#
Tell me What
kind of logic
G#m
In what kind of brain
C#
What manner of man
B
F#
Would think it was sane
What kind of soul
G#m
In what heart that beats
C#
Would chose to kill millions
B
A
F#
For an honorable peace
Outro 1
F#
G#m
C#
B
F#
B
F#
C#
G#m
C#
B
F#
G#m
C#
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