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Leaving Beirut

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 C                                       E                           E7 
Are these the people that we should bomb
 F                           G 
Are we so sure they mean us harm
 C                                         E                         E7 
Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime
 F                                                   G 
Is this a mountain that we really want to climb
 C                                 E                     E7 
The road is hard, hard and long
 F 
Put down that two by four
 G                                                                             C 
This man would never turn you from his door
                       E             E7 
Oh George! Oh George!
 F                                                           G                                                               C 
That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small
 C                               E                                 E7 
When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart,
 F                                                         G                                                     C 
Fulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car
                                                                     E                                   E7 
We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze
 F                                                                     G 
Got bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops
 C                                                             E                               E7 
But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes
 F 
Our dads had helped them win the war
 G                                                                           C 
When we all knew what we were fighting for
                                                                 E                         E7 
But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge
 F                                                               G 
The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge
 C 
Is gentleness too much for us
               E                         E7       F 
Should gentleness be filed along with empathy
       G 
We feel for someone else's child
 C                                                                 E                             E7 
Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong
 F                                                         G 
Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise
 C                                               E                             E7 
America, America, please hear us when we call
 F 
You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
 G 
You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell
 C 
You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,
 E                               E7 
Wildernesses and malls
 F 
Don't let the might, the Christian right,
 G                                                                                           C 
Fuck it all up for you and the rest of the world
 C                                                 E                               E7 
Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you
 F                                                   G 
Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules
 C                                                       E                                   E7 
History's not written by the vanquished or the damned
 F                                                   G 
Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam
 C                                             E                             E7 
In 1961 they took this child into their home
 F                                                                     G 
I wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon
 C                                                 E                       E7 
If I could find them now, could I make amends?
 F                                   G                       C 
How does the story end?