C5 E5 E5 Are these the people that we should bomb F5 G5 Are we so sure they mean us harm C5 E5 E5 Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime F5 G5 Is this a mountain that we really want to climb C5 E5 E5 The road is hard, hard and long F5 Put down that two by four G5 C5 This man would never turn you from his door E5 E5 Oh George! Oh George! F5 G5 C5 That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small C5 E5 E5 When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart, F5 G5 C5 Fulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car E5 E5 We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze F5 G5 Got bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops C5 E5 E5 But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes F5 Our dads had helped them win the war G5 C5 When we all knew what we were fighting for E5 E5 But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge F5 G5 The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge C5 Is gentleness too much for us E5 E5 F5 Should gentleness be filed along with empathy G5 We feel for someone else's child C5 E5 E5 Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong F5 G5 Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise C5 E5 E5 America, America, please hear us when we call F5 You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle G5 You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell C5 You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches, E5 E5 Wildernesses and malls F5 Don't let the might, the Christian right, G5 C5 Fuck it all up for you and the rest of the world C5 E5 E5 Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you F5 G5 Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules C5 E5 E5 History's not written by the vanquished or the damned F5 G5 Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam C5 E5 E5 In 1961 they took this child into their home F5 G5 I wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon C5 E5 E5 If I could find them now, could I make amends? F5 G5 C5 How does the story end?
