Road To Peace Chords by Tom Waits

at daytime.
_ [B] _ _ [Am] _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] A young man down by D shop
he was only 18 years old.
He was the youngest [A] of nine children.
He never spent a [E] night away from home.
[Dm] And his mother held his photograph.
_ [E]
Up in the New York [Am] Times
you see the killing [B] has _ [A] intensified
[Am] along [E] the road [Am] to peace.
_ _ _ [B] He was a tall, thin boy
with a wispy mustache _
disguised as an [Am] Orthodox Jew.
_ On a crowded [Bm] bus in [Am] Jerusalem
[Dm] some [A] had survived [E] World War II.
And [Dm] the thunderous [Dm] explosion
blew [E] out windows 200 [Am] yards away before _ [Bm] retribution
[Am] and [G] 17 dead
along [Ab] the road [Am] to peace.
_ _ _ _ [B] Now a King George held
in Joppa [D] Road
[Am] passengers boarded bus _ 14A
In the aisle [B]
next [A] to the driver
_ I've delved my [F] D shop [E] name
_ [Dm] and the last thing felt
he said on earth
[E] is God is great and God [Am] is good
and he blew [A] them all
good King to come
upon [E] the road to [Am] peace.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ Now in response [B] to this
[Am] another [B] kiss of death
was visited [E] upon
_ _ [A] Yahshua. _ _
Israel says
in a mass senior _ [Am]
militant
Israel says for Joppa's end
[E] flames engulfed his [A] white opal
and [Am] it killed his [A] wife
and his three year old child
[Am] leaving only [E] blackened [Am] skeleton
[E] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ they found his [E] toddler's bottle
[Am] and a pair of [E] small shoes
and they waved them in [A] front
of the cameras
but Israel [B] says
they did not know
that his wife and child
[Am] were in the car.
There are [Dm] roadblocks _ everywhere
and only [E] suffering on TV
neither side will ever [B] give up
[Am] their [D] smallest right
[Am] along [E] the road [Am] to peace. _ _
_ _ _ Israel [Bm] launched [Am] its latest [A] campaign
[Am] against [E] Hamas on Tuesday
[Am] _ and two [B] days later
Hamas [A] shot back
[Am] and [E] killed five [Am] Israeli soldiers _
[Dm] thousands dead and wounded
on both sides
[E] most of them Middle Eastern [A] civilians
[E] they filled their children full of hate
[Am] to fight an old [B] man's war
and die [E] upon the road [Am] to [D] peace.
_ [Am] _ _ [B] _
[A] Now this is our land
and we will fight with all our [Am] force
say the [E] Palestinians [A] and the Jews
_ each side [E] will cut off the [A] hand
of anyone who [B] tries to stop [E] the resistance
[Dm] if the right eye offends me
[E] then you must [Am] pluck it out
_ and the [A] Mahmoud Abbas and Sharon
won't have been lost
out [E] along the road [Am] to peace.
[A] _ _ _ _ Once Kissinger [B]
said
[A] we have no friends
[Am] America [E] only has interests
[Am] now our [B] president wants to be seen as a hero
[Am] and he's hungry [E] for re [Am]-election
_ [Dm] but Bush is reluctant to risk his future
[E] in the fear of his political [Am] failure
so he plays chess [B] at his desk
and [A] poses for the press
ten thousand [E] miles from the [Am] road to peace
[B] in [Am] _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
[B] _ a video that they found [D] at the home
[E] of Abdel-Mahdi [Am] Shabnev
he held [B] a Kalashnikov rifle
and he spoke [E] with a voice [Am] like a boy
he was [Dm] an excellent student
he studied so hard
it [E] was as if he had a future
he told his mother that he [Am] had a test [D] that day
[E] out along the [A] road to peace
_ the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] fundamentalists killing on both [D] sides
[E] _ standing in the [Am] path of peace
but [Ab] tell me why are we [A] arming the [D] Israeli army
[Am] with guns [E] and tanks and bullets
[Am] _ [Dm] and if God is great
and God is good
[E] why can't he change the hearts [Am] of men
maybe God himself is lost and needs help
maybe God [B] himself, he needs all of [G] our help
maybe God [B] himself [Am] is lost and [Dm] needs help
[Am] he's out upon the road to peace
maybe God [E] himself [Am] is lost and needs [A] help
maybe God himself, he needs all of [E] our [B] help
and he's lost upon the road to [Am] peace
_ and he's lost upon the road to peace
_ out upon the road to peace _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _