(riff principal)
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(intro) EmDCEmEm
There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair
D
It's like a moment frozen forever there
CEm
Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man
D
'...So proud.'
Em
Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down
D
By some teenage car chase war out of bounds
CEmD
It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun.
Em
Shoot straight - from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
D
You know, it could have been
C
It could have been your brother.
Em
Shoot straight - shoot to kill
D
Blame each other, blame yourselves
CDCEm
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone
Em
They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me
D
Well I'm a high school grad I'm over 5 foot 3
CEm
I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D.
D
They'll see
Em
He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand
D
But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran
CEm
And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance
D
And it's sad sad sad
Em
Shoot straight - from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
D
You know, it could have been
C
It could have been your brother.
Em
Shoot straight - shoot to kill
D
Blame each other, blame yourselves
CDCEm
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone
(solo 2x)
EmEmDDCCEmDEm
Shoot straight - from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
D
You know, it could have been
C
It could have been your brother.
EmD
John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Milk
all for goddamn nothing
CDCEm
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone
(solo)
Em (8 compassos)
CDCEm
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone
(solo)
Em (8 compassos)