Christy Moore – Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette chords

[Verse 1]
Em                        C             D     EmThey dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war,
C          D                EmNo-one had ever seen such a terrible sight before,
    C                    D            EmThe world looked on with eyes wide to see where it might lead,
    C           D           EmThe politics of power, they passed around their seed,
         DIt was a time to remember, we never can forget,
                  Em         C         D       EmThey were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.

[Verse 2]
Em                  C               D            EmThey arose like the saviours of our modern human race,
     C         D            EmWith radiation haloes, that hung about their face,
         C          D              EmWith the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our ills,
C             D             EmA hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills,
         DSpeaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the sea,
           Em       C               D       EmWhile they crept in among us like a carrier disease.

[Verse 3]
Em               C              D                EmDeep down in the bunkers of the concrete and the lead,
C          D                 EmEinstein's disciples working steadily ahead,
       C           D               EmMaking heavy metal power-plants to fire the city lights,
C                       D                  EmAll you can hear in the underground is the humming through the night,
        DAnd the walls of tight security, circle all around,
           Em              C          D              EmWhere they spill out their poison and bury it in the ground.

[Verse 4]
Em              C               D        EmHoled up in the harbours hidden secretly away,
C             D               EmWar-heads and submarines await to make their play,
 C           D              EmThe military masterminds improve on their design,
    C             D             EmThe soldiers get  doped up and stumble through the lines,
          DWhile the spills into the rivers get carried out by the tide,
     Em        C           D       EmThey call this security, I call it suicide.

[Verse 5]
Em                C                D           EmOur statesmen and leaders on their politicians pay,
C                 D                        EmQuick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say,
              C          D             EmThey call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic wands,
            C            D               EmThis is the power of the future, And the future marches on,
         DAnd they call in all their favours, all their political gains,
          Em              C          D             EmWhile the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains.

[Verse]
Em               C                     D               EmI know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes,
C         D                  EmNot to be trusted with their hands at the controls,
      C              D              EmTheir eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
    C                 D           EmThe heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears,
   DTo listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet's,
             Em         C         D       EmLike playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.