Chords for 40 Years Ago Joe Jackson Big World

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_ _ _ [E] _ Here in Berlin, _ _ _
_ _ [G#] people line up to [G] _ get in, [C] _ _ _ [G] _ to [E] wait for the [B] end, [E] _
_ _ living _ in [C] glorious _ [G] _ sin.
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[E] They've looked [B] around, _
[E] _ and [B] now there [C] is no [G] looking _ [C] back.
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So when rivers run [B] _
[E] red, _ _ now it's the [C] sky that [G] grows black.
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_ [E] _ Shadows are _ _ cast, as two [B]
giants [C] roam over the [G] earth.
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_ [E] _ We light a match, _ but [B] what is that [C] little _ [G]
flame _ [C] worth?
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_ [F#m] Once _ our _ [D] lives _ danced in [E] _ sand, _ but it [A] was _ _ [B] forty _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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Here in DC, [B] _ _ [E] _
_ they talk [C] about Euro [G] disease, _ _
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[E] and how the _ [B] French [E] _ are [B] _ [C] always so damn hard [G] to please. _
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[E] _ Motions are [B] _ _
[E] _ passed [B] in Brussels, but [C] no [G] one agrees. _
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[E] And no one walks tall, _ _ but no one [C] gets down on [G] their _ _ [C] knees.
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_ [F#m] Once our _ [D] lives _ laughed and [E] _ drank, but it [A] was _ _ [B] forty _
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Where I come [B] _ [E] from, _ _ they don't like [C] _ [G] Americans _ _ [C]
much.
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[E] Think they're so _ [B]
[E] loud, and so tasteless, [C] and so [G] out of touch. _
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[E] _ Stiff upper _ _ _ lips, I [B] curled into [C] _ [G] permanent sneers.
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[E] _ Self-satisfied, _
_ _ _ _ [B] awaiting the [C] next forty [G] _
years.
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[F#m] Once _ our lives [D] _ cried _ _
[E] and cheered, but it [A] was _ _ [B] forty _
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