This took me forever to do amd get the right one so you better like it!
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Verse 1: Play two chords per line, play each chord 8 timesE|---------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------|G|---------------------------------------------------|D|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------|A|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------|e|--0--2--5--7--0--2--5--7---------------------------|
You and I in a little toy shopbuy a bag of balloons with the money we've gotSet them free at the break of dawn'Til one by one, they were gone E F# A B E F# A B |---0---2---5---7----0---2---5---7-------------------------------------||---0---2---5---7----0---2---5---7-------------------------------------||---1---2---6---8----1---2---6---8-------------------------------------||---2---4---7---9----2---4---7---9-------------------------------------||---2---4---7---9----2---4---7---9-------------------------------------||---0---2---5---7----0---2---5---7-------------------------------------|Back at base, bugs in the softwareFlash the message, "Something's out there"Floating in the summer sky99 red balloons go by.
Bridge: play this riff about 5 times...listen to song for exact strumming patterns
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Verse 2: Play two chords per line, play each chord 8 timesE|---------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------|G|---------------------------------------------------|D|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------| play twiceA|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------|e|--0--2--5--7--0--2--5--7---------------------------|
ninety nine red balloons
floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.
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Verse 3: Play two chords per line, play each chord 8 timesE|---------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------|G|---------------------------------------------------|D|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------| play twiceA|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------|e|--0--2--5--7--0--2--5--7---------------------------|
99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.
Bridge: play this riff about 5 times...listen to song for exact strumming patterns
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Verse 4: Play two chords per line, play each chord 8 timesE|---------------------------------------------------|B|---------------------------------------------------|G|---------------------------------------------------|D|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------| play twiceA|--2--4--7--9--2--4--7--9---------------------------|e|--0--2--5--7--0--2--5--7---------------------------|
99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons
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Solo end:
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99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.
