Key: E
Introduction: Em C Em C Em C Em C
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It was on the stroke of midnight
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On the final Christmas Eve
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People all around were saying
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"What do you believe?"
Em C
Streets were laid with burnished gold
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Statues made of chrome
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Up spoke the wicked messenger
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"You're welcome to my home"
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
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verse 2
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Then tempers started flaring
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As the heat began to rise
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Fields of corn and rapeseed
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Turned to dust before their eyes
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People started blaming
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The changing weather map
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The chrome began to tarnish
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The gold was sold for scrap
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
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verse 3
Em C
Then just before the end of time
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The sun began to dim
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People of the world began
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To sing a common hymn
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The Muslim kissed the Hindu
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The Hindu kissed the Jew
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The Jew kissed all the Buddhists
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And the Christians joined the queue
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright
G Am
Everything's going to be alright
Em C
Everything's going to be alright