{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2773630,"song":"The Biggest Windmill","artist":"David Rovics","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11535831-the-biggest-windmill-chords-by-david-rovics/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2773630?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was in the 1970’s, the fuel crisis had begun[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe choices were presented to us as if we had none[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLeaders of industry said they could solve the problem[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBy mastering the power of the radioactive atom[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome folks in western Jutland got a notion in their heads[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey thought there might be something they could offer up instead[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA few hundred people gathered in a little place called Tvind[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd declared their will to harness the power of the wind[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere were many who said their science wasn’t sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat such a mighty windmill would simply topple to the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome of them were scientists, the vast majority were not[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut they knew with years of effort you could do a lot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWord about the project spread far and wide[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA hundred thousand visitors came to help and to advise[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nUntil one day these windmill builders drove in with a crane[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd lifted up their giant wings with a mighty chain[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen Tvindkraft was completed it reached up to the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIts wings churned in the air at 54 meters high[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe critics all fell silent, no one now was jeering[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs even industry agreed this was some damn fine engineering[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe wind regaled Jutland from the north Atlantic sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs it was seamlessly converted into electricity[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt was power for the people, leukemia for none[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen they declared in Denmark just south of the midnight sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey gave away the patents, they said knowledge should be free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd their plans were copied by a new-born industry[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSoon Denmark would be known as the windmill-building nation[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd it all started with some hippies at the Tvindkraft power station[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDebates were held in parliament about which way things should go[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBuild a nuclear reactor, the majority said no[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt could have gone quite differently — in much of the world it did[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nExcept for those in Ulfborg who said we’re getting off the grid[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 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