{"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":594032,"song":"Leaving Beirut","artist":"Roger Waters","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11571545-leaving-beirut-chords-by-roger-waters/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/594032?type=chord","rating":4.67473,"votes":3,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t     [ch]E[/ch]\t\t    [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAre these the people that we should bomb[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAre we so sure they mean us harm[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIs this our pleasure, punishment or crime[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs this a mountain that we really want to climb[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nThe road is hard, hard and long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nPut down that two by four[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\t\t\t\t\t[ch]C[/ch]\r\nThis man would never turn you from his door[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t   [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nOh George! Oh George![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t       [ch]G[/ch]\t                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t [ch]E[/ch]\t\t   [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nWhen I was 17 my mother, bless her heart,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t      [ch]G[/ch]\t\t\t\t  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t\t\t  [ch]E[/ch]\t\t     [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nWe motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t\t    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGot bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t        [ch]E[/ch]\t         [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBut everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nOur dads had helped them win the war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\t\t\t\t       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen we all knew what we were fighting for[/tab]\r\n[tab]\t\t\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\t      [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBut now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t\t [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIs gentleness too much for us[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\t     [ch]E7[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nShould gentleness be filed along with empathy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe feel for someone else's child[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t\t  [ch]E[/ch]\t\t  [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nEvery time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSomeone else's child dies and equities in defence rise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t [ch]E[/ch]\t\t [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAmerica, America, please hear us when we call[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\t\t [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nWildernesses and malls[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nDon't let the might, the Christian right,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\t\t\t\t\t       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFuck it all up for you and the rest of the world[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t  [ch]E[/ch]\t           [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nNot in my name, Tony, you great war leader you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTerror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t     [ch]E[/ch]\t\t\t[ch]E7[/ch]\r\nHistory's not written by the vanquished or the damned[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t[ch]E[/ch]\t\t[ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIn 1961 they took this child into their home[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t\t\t    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\t\t\t  [ch]E[/ch]\t       [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nIf I could find them now, could I make amends?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\t\t   [ch]G[/ch]\t\t[ch]C[/ch]\r\nHow does the story end?[/tab]\r","plain_text":"","chords":["C","E","E7","F","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}