Key: C
Introduction:
Fm7(b5)(aka Fº
X X 3 4 3 4
F#m7(b5)(aka F#º
X X 4 5 4 5
C7M
0 3 2 0 0 0
C°
X 3 4 2 4 X
F/C
X 3 3 2 1 1
(1st slide guitar)
G7 C C7M
We've got to save the world
Bb D7 F#m7(b5) G
Someone else may want to use it
Bb A7
So far we've seen
Dm
This planet's rape,
G#7 G
how we've abused it
G7
We've got to save the world
Interlude
C G
The Russians have the biggest share
C G
With their long fingers everywhere
F A7
And now they've bombs in outer space
F Fm C
With laser beams and atomic waste
C G
Rain forest chopped for paper towels
C G
One acre gone in every hour *
F A7
Our birds and wildlife all destroyed
F Fm C° F/C
To keep some millionaires employed (different interlude)
G7 C C7M
We've got to save the whale
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse it
Bb A7
But dog food salesmen
Dm G#7 G
Persist on kindly to harpoon it
G7
We've got to save the world
C G
The armament consortium
C G
They're selling us plutonium
F A7
Now you can make your own H-bomb
F Fm C
Right in the kitchen with your mom
C G
The nuclear power that costs you more
C G
Than anything you've known before
F A7
The half-wit's answer to a need
F Fm C
For cancer, death, destruction, greed
G7 C C7M
We've got to save the world
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Someone's children they may need it
Bb A7
So far we've seen
Dm G#7 G
The big business of extinction bleed it
G7 C Cº F
We've got to save the world
C G
We're at the mercy of so few
C G
With evil hearts determined to
F A7
Reduce this planet into hell
F Fm C
Then find a buyer and make quick sale
C G
To end upon a happy note
C G
Like trying to make concrete float
F A7
Is very simple knowing that
F Fm C C° F
God in your heart lives
G G7 C C7M
We've got to save the world
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Someone else may want to use it
Bb A7
It's time you knew
Dm
How close we've come
G#7 G G7
We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save
C Cº Fm7(b5) C
We gotta save the world.