G D Em
C *

 ( * - picking looks something like this.

     C
   e-------------------------- | 
   B-3-------------3---------- | 
   G---2------2--------2------ | 
   D-----0------0------- 0---- | 
   A-------1---------1-------- | 
   E-------------------------- | 

   alt.

     C
   e-------------------------- | 
   B-3--------3--------------- | 
   G---2--------2---2------2-- | 
   D-----0--------0---0------- | 
   A-------1------------1----- | 
   E-------------------------- | 
      (you can pick G* with the same principles) )


       G                 D             Em                     C *
It was well concieved in theory but it does'nt work in life.
G              Em             C                        C *
Comrade has to wonder: "is it ever worth the effort?"
             G                  D           Em                
C *
Well I dont know, but I've been told not to hang onto my hope.
             G                  Em                 C          
           C *
Well I dont know what I've been told and I've been listening all my life.


G              D                 Em
If you're ever less then certain about the world
G *                                 C *
please dont let the worry make its way into your work
G                      D             Em
and if you would stick up for me and face some adversity,
G *                            C *
know that I would only do the same.

             G                 D             Em              C     C
Cause it was well concieved in theory but it does'nt work in life.
G             Em              C           D      D
Me I will not write it of not ever having tried.
     G                           D           Em           C   C
Well I don't know, but I've been told not to hang onto my hope.
     G                           Em                 C         
       D
Well I don't know what I've been told but these are lies and they get old.

D

   G              D            Em             C
So look me in the eyes under expanding winter skies,
              G                  Em              C
you'll find a feeling there that never knows the cold.
G              D            Em            C
Look me in the eyes and the sceptic in me dies,
G            Em           C                D
scepsis is a fool, we are exeptions to the world.

D

        G                D               Em                   
C
This is our land this is our land I will cross it holding your hands.
G             Em          C             D
Kursk down to Moscow will not be turned away.
        G                 D                Em               C
This is our land, this is our land, I will cross it holding your hands.
G                      Em          C              D
The crocked streets of Petersburg, we are all the same

D

   G              D                Em         C
So if you're ever less then certain about the world
G                   Em             C             D
please dont let the worry make its way into your work.
    G                  D                Em              C
And if you would stick up for me in the face of great adversity
G                 Em          C               D
know that I would do the same know we are the same.

D

G                  D               Em           C
If you would stick up for me speek highly and poeticly,
G             Em         C               D
you can be my personal ambassador to the world,
    G              D                 Em             C
and if you're ever less then certain I will be your iron curtain
G              Em              C            G    
G  (alt. G G/E )
I will be your Berlinwall, and I will never fall

Tabbed by Jacqueline and Erik.