WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Christy Moore - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette Chords | Ver. 1
[Verse 1]
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They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war,
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No-one had ever seen such a terrible sight before,
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The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it might lead,
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The politics of power, they passed around their seed,
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It was a time to remember, we never can forget,
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They were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.
[Verse 2]
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They arose like the saviours of our modern human race,
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With radiation haloes, that hung about their face,
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With the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our ills,
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A hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills,
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Speaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the sea,
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While they crept in among us like a carrier disease.
[Verse 3]
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Deep down in the bunkers of the concrete and the lead,
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Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead,
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Making heavy metal power-plants to fire the city lights,
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All you can hear in the underground is the humming through the night,
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And the walls of tight security, circle all around,
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Where they spill out their poison and bury it in the ground.
[Verse 4]
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Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away,
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War-heads and submarines await to make their play,
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The military masterminds improve on their design,
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The soldiers get doped up and stumble through the lines,
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While the spills into the rivers get carried out by the tide,
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They call this security, I call it suicide.
[Verse 5]
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Our statesmen and leaders on their politicians pay,
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Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say,
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They call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic wands,
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This is the power of the future, And the future marches on,
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And they call in all their favours, all their political gains,
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While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains.
[Verse]
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I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes,
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Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls,
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Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
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The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears,
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To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet's,
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Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.