| pre>the latest i looked at this was the live version on
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| «the last rock and roll tour" — graham parker and the figgs.
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| This version works fairly well for me now.
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| Intro: b / e / b / e (twice)
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| First b 799 677 first e 779 997 second b 224 442 second e 022 100
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| B e b e b e b e The jug heads hit the city from every country round the globe
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| B e b e b e b e The ships pulled in the drinks were free the ticker tape came out in rolls
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| B e b e b e b e I was sitting in a bar watching this on tv
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| B e b e b e b e To me it looked like a failure but they called it victory
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| Bridge 1
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| G#m b c#m7 f#
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| Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that’s great
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| G#m b c#m7 f#
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| You’re just dreaming anyway if you don’t get irate
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| Chorus (twice)
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| B e b e b e b e Come on turn it into hate turn it into hate
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| Send your little boys and girls to go and play in a giant sandbox
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| Put your movie stars on the cover of people for goin’in for a detox
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| Let your happy-face news readers share a little joke
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| At the end of the night’s transmission
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| Let’s see the world through the eyes
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| Of some clown gonna make all of your decisions
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| Bridge 2
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| Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that’s great
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| It’s all been manufactured like the junk that’s on your plate
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| Chorus repeat, then instrumental break, then intro repeat
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| Some of them lead the marching band suddenly they’re war heroes
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| Some of them fall in a foreign land suddenly they’re just zeroes
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| Some of us go back to sleep some of us learn to fear it There’s a siren blowin’in your heart you just don’t want to hear it Bridge 3
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| Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that’s all right
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| Ah just don’t start a fight with anyone rich and white
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| Chorus repeat
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| B e b e b e b e Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it turn it into hate |