99 Red Balloons

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# 99 Red Balloons

G                          Am                 C                 D7
You and I and a little toy shop, buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got.
G                    Am                  C           D7
Set them free at the break of dawn, ‘til one by one, they were gone.
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Back at base, bugs in the software flash the message, "Something's out there."
G               Am          C           D7             (G)
Floating in the summer sky, ninety-nine red balloons go by.

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G           Am            C               D7
Ninety-nine red balloons, floating in the summer sky.
G                  Am         C        D7
Panic lads, it's a red alert, there's something here from somewhere else.
G               Am               C            D7
The war machine springs to life, opens up one eager eye.
G          Am           C           D7
Focusing it on the sky, ninety-nine red balloons go by.  G Am C D7

G           Am               C           D7
Ninety-nine Decision Street, ninety-nine ministers meet.
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To worry, worry, super-scurry, call the troops out in a hurry.
G            Am                 C                D7
This is what we've waiting for, this is it boys, this is war.
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The president is on the line as ninety-nine red balloons go by.  G Am C D7

G           Am                  C                      D7
Ninety-nine knights of the air, riding super-high-tech jet fighters.
G            Am          C            D7
Everyone's a super hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk.
G           Am           C          D7
With orders to identify, to clarify and classify.
G             Am              C              D7           G        Am
Scrambling in the summer sky, as ninety-nine red balloons go by.

C           D7              G     Am
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.
C           D7              G
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.

G            Am                C           D7
Ninety-nine dreams I have had, every one a red balloon.
G                     Am                   C                 D7
Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty, in this dust that was a city.
G                 Am        C             D7
If I could find a souvenir, just to prove the world was here...
G             Am           C              D7
Yes here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go.  G Am C D7

G           Am           C           D7
Ninety-nine red balloons Ninety-nine red balloons
G           Am           C           D7           G  Am
Ninety-nine red balloons Ninety-nine red balloons go by
C           D7		 G  Am  C  D7  G
Ninety-nine red balloons go by