Road to peace chords by
Tom Waits

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Key: A minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Young Abdel Mahdi

Shahmay was only 18 years old,

He was the youngest of nine children

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He never spent a night away from home.

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And his mother held his photograph

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up in the New York Times

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To see the killing has in tensified

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along the road to peace

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He was a

Verse 2

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tall,

thin boy with a whispy moustache

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Disguised as an orthodox Jew

On a crowded bus in Jerusalem,

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some had survived World War Two

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And the thunderous explosion blew out

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windows two hundred yards away

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With more retribution and seventeen

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dead along the road to peace

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Verse 3

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Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road

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passengers boarded bus 14A

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In the aisle next to the driver

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Abdel Mahdi Shahmay

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And the last thing that he said on

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Earth is, "God is great and God is good"

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And he blew them all to kingdom

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come upon the road to peace

Verse 4

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Now in response to this another kiss of

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death was visited upon

Yasser Taha, Israel says is an

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Hamas senior militant

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And Israel sent four choppers in,

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flames engulfed his white Opel

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And it killed his wife and his

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three year old child

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Leaving only blackened skeletons

Verse 5

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They found his toddler's bottle

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and a pair of small shoes

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And they waved them in

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front of the cameras

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But Israel says they did not know

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That his wife and child were in the car

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There are roadblocks everywhere

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and only suffering on TV

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Neither side will ever give up

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their smallest right

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Along the road to peace

Verse 6

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Israel launched its latest campaign against

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Hamas on Tuesday

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Two days later Hamas shot back

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and killed five Israeli soldiers

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So thousands dead and

wounded on both

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Sides most of them middle eastern civilians

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They fill their children full of hate

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to fight an old man's war

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And die upon the road to peace

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Verse 7

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"And this is our land we

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will fight with all

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Our force" say the

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Palastinians and the Jews

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Each side will cut off the hand of

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Anyone who tries to stop the resistance

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If the right eye offends thee then

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you must pluck it out

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And Mahmoud Abbas said

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Sharon had been lost

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Out along the road to peace

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Verse 8

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Once Kissinger said "we have no friends,

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America only has interests"

Now our president wants

to be seen as a hero

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And he's hungry for a re- election

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But Bush is reluctant to risk his future

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In the fear of his political failures

So he plays chess at his desk

and poses for the press

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Ten thousand miles from

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the road to peace

Verse 9

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In the video that they found at the home

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of Abdel Mahdi Shahmay

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He held a Kalashnikov rifle and

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he spoke with a voice like a boy

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He was an excellent student,

He studied so hard,

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it was as if he had a future

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He told his mother that he

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had a test that day

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Out along the road to peace

Verse 10

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The fundamentalist killing on both

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Sides is standing in the path of peace

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But tell me why are we arming the

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Is raeli army with guns

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and tanks and bullets?

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And if God is great and God is good

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Why can't he change the hearts of men?

Well maybe God himself is

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lost and needs help

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Maybe God himself he

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needs all of our help

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Maybe God himself is lost

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and needs help

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He's out upon the road to peace

Verse 11

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Well maybe God himself is

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lost and needs help

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Maybe God himself he

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needs all of our help

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And he's lost upon the road to peace

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And he's lost upon the road to peace

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Out upon the road to peace.

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The original key of Road to peace by Tom waits is A minor.

The primary chords used in Road to peace are Am, E, Dm.

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