World War III chords by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
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Verse 1
(E major) 3, 2, 1, (G major) 1984,
(A minor) World War III. (G major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor) (G major)
game of (A minor) business,
(G major) a game we shouldn't play
Because men with (A minor) gun
s killed all our sons
They (G major) blew us all away and
they called it (A minor) war
Paranoia, it's almost over
Nobody (G major) hears what the people say
(A minor) Paranoia, it's almost over
(G major) Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Realist (A minor) ically,
the bombs are ready
Technically, (G major) nuclear by name
Capability, (A minor) auto -destructive
Radioactive, (G major) death and flame
There was talk of a (A minor) fiery doom
Prophesied (G major) since the dawn of time
In a world of blood (A minor) shed, mass confusion
Killer (G major) diseases, (F sharp minor) pol (G major) lution and crime
Man is in con (A minor) flict with nature
And (G major) that is why there's so much sin
But Mother Nature's (A minor) delicate balance
Will (G major) fix it so (F sharp minor) nobody (G major) wins
In (A minor) World Catastrophe War Reaganomics
(G major) And nobody (F sharp minor) hears (G major) what the people say
(A minor) World It's a timing War Cata (G major) strophe
Ha ha ha ha ha
A thousand miles (A minor) away from home,
a mortally wounded (G major) soldier dies
And on the blood (A minor) stained battlefield,
his (G major) life flashes before his eyes
Before he died, (A minor)
the man saw Jesus and (G major) Jesus Christ
Took his hand and all the sol
(A minor) diers died in breath
The (G major) good Lord took them
to the promised land
But there's no people (A minor) living,
people dying,
every (G major) body disappear
After world (A minor) people living, people (G major) crying,
ha ha ha ha, the breakdown (A minor)
Pain (G major)
Pain (A minor)
Yeah, so let the music play
Pain (G major) (C major) (G major) (A minor) 1984,
see (G major) the world (D major) at war, (G major)
your darkest fears (A minor) of reality
are (G major) knocking down your door.
Drones an (A minor) d mutations,
clones (G major) and deviations,
and there is no (A minor) one that can escape
the (G major) nuclear revelation.
Because (A minor) war is a game of business,
and (D major) in the (G major) en d we fight.
The new, young,
and (A minor) old are bought and (G major) sold
And everybody thinks they're right
Well, paranoia, it's almost over
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
The (A minor) silver moon, the midnight stars
Jupiter (G major) collides with Mars
And (A minor) out of the darkness, spirits roar
To (G major) cast revenge on the Earth once more
The leaders of the world are (A minor) hypnotized
By (G major) wizards dark (D major) and in (G major) disguise
Brought (A minor) to Earth by an evil hand
To de (G major) vour souls (F sharp minor) in a (G major) brand new land
They make the leaders
(A minor) think that war brings peace
And (A major) now comes the (F sharp minor) one
with the (G major) mark of the beast
There's evil (A minor) behind closed doors
Of the (G major) year of 1984
Life is a (A minor) game of business
And (G major) in the end we fight
Cause Lou Young is (A minor) all
I've bought and sold
And (G major) everybody takes their right
War is (D major) a game of (A minor) business
A (G major) game we shouldn't play
Because Medgar's guns
killed (A minor) all our sons
And (G major) threw us all away (A minor)
(G major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor) (G major)
World (A minor) Catastrophe, (G major) War, Reganomics,
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
(A minor) Long ago, and all too soon,
two different (G major) wars fought on the moon.
One put the (A minor) craters on it first,
then we (D major) blew it fur (F sharp minor) ther in the (G major) universe.
Both (A minor) of these were nuclear wars (D major)
breaking uni (G major) versal law
Then (A minor) falling stars and meteorites
dropped (G major) to earth by day and night
Twister (A minor) s, earthquakes, hurricanes,
volca (G major) noes,
droughts,
and torrential rain
Then one (A minor) day the UFOs
came (G major) to see (D major) the whole (G major) world explode
We will (A minor) pay our ultimate price
(A major) an (G major) d a (D major) lesson is (G major) to be learned
When we play (A minor) with nuclear fire,
everybody's (F sharp minor) gon (G major) na get burned
Because (A minor) war is a game of business
A game we (D major) shouldn't play
(G major) Because weapons gun
(A minor) s killed all our sons
And (G major) blew us all away (A minor) (G major) (A minor)
Yeah, so let the music play
Between (G major) the (A minor) boundaries
of time and space
Was the (D major) planet Earth and the (G major) human race
A world alive (A minor) and centuries old
When veins of (F sharp minor) dia mond,
(G major) silver, and gold
Snow -capped (A minor) mountains
over (A major) looked the land
(A minor) And the (G major) deep blue (D major) sea
made love (G major) with the sand
Full -grown (A minor) strands of evergreen hair
Kissed (G major) the sky with the breath of air
Where exotic fish (A major) once swam
(A minor) In the sea and the (A major) eagles
soared (G major) in the sky so free
But the (A minor) foolish clan that
walked the land
Was the (G major) creature that (F sharp minor)
they (G major) called man
They're (A minor) cannibalistic, paranoid fools
Trick (A major) ing each (D major) other with
(G major) games and blues
Train (A minor) ing their men to kill and fight
Moving (G major) and (D major) steering their
(G major) mechanized might
The (A minor) only thought that men (A major) had in mind
Was (G major) to conquer the world and
the rest of mankind
And (A minor) with the thought that they were right
They (G major) gave you permis (D major) sion
to take (G major) a man's life
The (A minor) ones you killed fought
just as hard
And you (G major) even had the nerve to pray to God
But God don't (A minor) want
to hear all your mess
When (G major) you ain't the one
that he laid to rest
The (A minor) devil's children were
no disgrace
Crushed (A major) and (F sharp minor) killed the (G major) human race
And while (A minor) they got rich
off the gains of war
What (G major) in the hell were you fighting for?
A silly ass (A minor) medal, a stupid parade
For (G major) all those (D major) in nocent people (G major) you slayed
And after that (A minor) you couldn't
even get a job
Cause (G major) fighting that war
made you a slob
Sergeant and (A minor) a major,
a corporal lieutenant
Titles (D major) and posi (F sharp minor) tions were all (G major) invented
You (A minor) and me and all this mess
Are just a (G major) bunch of little pieces
in a game of chess
It's (A minor) all the same
The third world war,
a (G major) bloodthirsty massacre
Just like before it's genocide
(A minor) Three billion tears feed (G major) ing on the war
Every 20 years, then one day,
we (A minor) heard the sound
of the (F sharp minor) whole damn world tum (G major) bling down
(A minor) Just (G major) one big (A minor) boom, and what do you know,
the (G major) world is a ghetto,
how you know?
Crumbling buildings all (A minor) around,
man's (G major) creation burned to the ground
Chaos, panic, (D minor) fear, pain,
(G major) days of (F sharp minor) radioact (G major) ive rain
Grotesque (A minor) fig ures burned alive,
(G major) mi raculously seemed to survive
Everything of reality (A minor) (G major) is a science fiction
On TV, mutant dog (A minor) s enslave the two fats
Eat (G major) men with guns in baseball bats
The (A minor) dead gon' die, the rooted won't cry
And (G major) everybody's asking
the question, why?
Until scores (A minor) of millions walk from the city
And thousands more (G major) went
underground below
With their heads held (A minor) down
in their own pity
Wonder (G major) ing where, (D major) they (G major) do not know
Cause in this game, we (A minor) had a chance
But we (G major) blew it,
for cheap thrills and romance
May (A minor) be one day we'll get another play
But un (G major) til then, remember what I say
Because life (A minor) is a game of business
And (G major) in the end, we (G major) swipe
The new, and (A minor) old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks (F sharp minor) they're (G major) right,
right?
(A minor) War is a game of business
(G major) A game we shouldn't play
(G major) Because men with guns killed all our sons
And blew us all away
(A minor) Hurrah! I have a dream (G major)
(G major) My four little children (D major) (G major)
One day live in a nation
where they will not be judged
by (F major) the color of their skin,
(G major) but by the content of their character.
So let freedom ring,
from the prodigious hilltops
of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring,
from the mighty mountains of New York.
(A minor) Let freedom ring
from the hyping allegations
of Pennsylvania.
(G major) Let freedom ring
from the snow -capped
rockies of Colorado.
Let (G major) (A minor) freedom (G major) ring
(A minor) from the curvaceous
slopes of California. (G major)
But not only that.
Let freedom ring
from Soul Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring
from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring
from every hill and foehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside.
Let freedom ring.
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Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
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