Standard tuning [EADGBE]
NO Capo

[Intro]
G5 , C5 , D5 , D5 (3rd fret), D5 (5th fret) [x2]

[Verse 1]
G5                C5
We sent in the army
               D5
They sounded alarms we
       D (3rd fret)  D (5th fret)
Saw it coming from a mile away.
G5                 C5
We kept it off radar
                   D5
Cause we had to say our
D (3rd fret)       D (5th fret) Cadd9
Intentions were to save the   day.

[Pre-Refrain]
    G5      E5     D5
Why did you fail to see?

[Refrain] 
          G5
It was a gag
                   G5
It was all for a laugh
              C5
And they were shocked and they were awed
              C5 (4th fret)  D5 
and they were blown in         half
        G5
Fun and games
                    G5
We're just pulling legs
             C5
We knew this barrel of fun
          C5 (4th fret)  D5
Would be a powder          keg

[Verse 2]
We kept it all long-range
and made a regime change
You'd have thought it would have been a gas
But when it got ugly
We sat around smugly
Because you bought our little joke en masse

[Pre-Refrain]
Don't look at me that way

[Refrain]
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
We knew your sons and daughters
Would be blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg

[Bridge]
C5  G5
Put a smile on
G5          G/f#     G5    D5
We're the ones that you selected
C5       G5
Leave that dial son
G5           G/f#    G5  D5
Because we just got re-elected
C5 G5
In a  while our
G5       G/f#        G5   D5
Bill of rights will be rejected
G5           G/f#       G5   D5
and all the blame will be deflected
G5           G/f#    G5   D5
the forests will be unprotected
G5            G/f#      G5    D5
the nation's poor will be neglected
G5        G/f#    G5   D5
creation myth is resurrected
G5       G/f#    G5   D5
a new salute is genuflected
G5        G/f#      G5    D5
a gallup poll will be respected
G5       G/f#      G5   D5
gallows pole will be erected
G        G/F#    G/B Cadd9 D (Strum very fast, then mute the note at the end)
all this will go undetecteeeeeeeeeeeed

[Verse 3]
While you all slumbered
We sat and crunched numbers
Of all the causalities we could afford
There's no need to draft them
You could hear us laugh then
The poor and black all need the room and board

[Pre-Refrain]
Did I say that out loud?

[Refrain]
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
And now our very nation has been blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg

[Coda]
    G5                 E5
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
             C5                    C5 (4th fret)  D5
We knew this barrel of fun would be a powder           keg
    G5                 E5              C5
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
       C5 (4th fret)  D5
It's a powder           keg
    G5                 E5               C5            C9(4 Fr)  D5
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah [x2]

[End on G]