Key: B
Introduction:
Bm
I have seen the diamond stylus,
G
Cut a groove from north to south,
Bm G
Heard them calling from the islands for a better day,
Bm
One by one they tell their story,
G
One by one it's just the same,
F#m
"They've taken our leaders,
G
And all their believers are paralysed,
Bm A Bm
And now we can't turn back, somebody is watching you!
Bm A Bm
Don't turn round, yesterday's gone!
Em Bm C
And even the children are waking at midnight in tears,
Didn't anyone hear? Mother, mother, mother..."
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
Bm Em Bm GA Bm
Ooooh, aaah, ooooh, aaah,
Bm
Looking out my bedroom window,
G
I remember early days,
Bm G
When the shot that wounded millions took our breath away,
Bm
But now the shadow of a gunman,
G F#m
With his balaclava eyes, is making the news,
G
Calling out the warnings on the telephone,
Bm A Bm
"You're in the line of fire, wish there was another way!
Bm A Bm
Line of fire, anything goes,"
Em Bm C
And who is the winner, and what will the minister say,
At the end of the day? Never, never, never, never!
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
Bm G
This is bella soma, this is bella soma,
Em Bm
This is bella soma, this is bella soma,
Em C
This is bella soma, this is bella soma,
Mother, mother, mother...
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
G A C D Em
Hush child go to sleep, it's only the sound of a gun,
G A C D B Em
Hush child do not weep, it's only the sound of a world on the run,
C D Em BmEm CA DA
You're hearing the sound of a gun.