Key: D
Introduction:
G C G/B Am
Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere,
D Bb+ Bm A/C#
And build them a home, a little place of their own
D Em C D Em7 D/F# G C
The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable tyrants and kings.
G C G/B Am
And they can appear to themselves every day,
D Bb+ Bm A/B Bm
On closed circuit T.V. to make sure they're still real
C D Em
It's the only connection they feel
C7+
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig,
D
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley,
C7+
Mr. Brezhnev and party, the ghost of McCarthy,
D
The memories of Nixon. And now adding colour,
G D/F# C
A group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati"
Em D
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
G D/F# C
They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles,
G D/F# C
And amuse themselves playing games for a while
G D/F# C
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
G D/F# Em D/F# G D/F# Em D C7+ D
G D/F# C D G D/F# C7+ D G D/F# C7+
G C G/B Am
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye,
D Bb+ Bm
With their favorite toys, they'll be good girls and boys
A/C# D Em C D Em7 D/F# G
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial wasters of life and limb
D/F# C G D/F# C9
Is everone in? Are you having a nice time?
D/F# C
Now the final solution can be applied
sounds best with distortion & chorus