C Are these the people E that we should E7 bomb
F Are we so sure G they mean us harm
C Is this our pleasure, E punishment or E7 crime
F Is this a mountain that we G really want to climb
C The road is hard, E hard and lon E7 g
F Put down that two by four
G This man would never turn you from his d C oor
Oh George! E Oh Georg E7 e!
F That Texas education must have G fucked you up when you were very C small
C When I was 17 my E mother, bless her E7 heart,
F Fulfilled my summer dream she G handed me the keys to the ca C r
We motored down to Paris, fuelled E with Dexedrine and E7 booze
F Got bust in Antibes by the cops and G fleeced in Naples by the wops
C But everyone was kind to us, we E were the English E7 dudes
F Our dads had helped them win the war
G When we all knew what we were fighting C for
But now an Englishman abroad is E just a US stoo E7 ge
F The bulldog is a poodle snapping G round the scoundrel's last refuge
C Is gentleness too much for us
Should E gentleness be E7 filed F along with empathy
We G feel for someone else's child
C Every time a smart bomb does its s E ums and gets it E7 wrong
F Someone else's child dies and G equities in defence rise
C America, America, please E hear us when we E7 call
F You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
G You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell
C You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,
E Wildernesses and E7 malls
F Don't let the might, the Christian right,
G Fuck it all up for you and the rest of the worl C d
C Not in my name, Tony, you E great war leader E7 you
F Terror is still terror, who G soever gets to frame the rules
C History's not written by the E vanquished or the d E7 amned
F Now we are Genghis Khan, Lu G cretia Borghia, Son of Sam
C In 1961 they took this c E hild into their E7 home
F I wonder what became of them in the G cauldron that was Lebanon
C If I could find them now, E could I make E7 amends?
F How does the story G end? C
This is one of my favourite songs by Roger Waters and is incredible live. Any feedback,
or corrections are welcomed martywalsh19@hotmail.com
Roger Waters
