Chords for Tom Lehrer: Send The Marines (concert live) (1965)

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President Johnson practicing escalatio on the Vietnamese, [N] and then _ the _ _ Dominican crisis on top of that.
It has been a nervous year, and people have begun to feel like a Christian scientist with appendicitis. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Fortunately, in times of crisis like this, America always has its number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on.
Here's a [F] song about it.
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_ When someone makes a [C] move of [F] which we don't approve, [F] who is it [D] that always intervenes?
[C] [F] UN and OAS, [Bb] they have their place, I [F] guess.
But first, send the Marines. _
We'll [G] send them all we've got.
John Wayne and Randolph Scott, [Cm] remember those [G] exciting [Db] fighting [C] scenes.
To [F] the shores [Cm] of Tripoli, but [Bb] not to [Bbm] Mississippi.
What do we [C] do?
We [F] send the Marines.
For [Bb] might makes right, [Am] and till they've seen the light,
[Gm] they've got to [C] be protected, all their rights [Gm] respected,
till somebody we like can be elected.
_ [F] Members of the [C] Corps all hate the thought of [C] war.
[Cm] They'd rather kill them off by [G] peaceful [C] means.
[F] Stop calling it aggression.
We hate [Bbm] that expression.
[F] We only [Bb] want the world to know [F] that we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we [C] go, so when in doubt, send the [F] Marines. _ _ _ _ _
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