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[Intro]
| C   | F C | C   | G   |
| C   | F C | C G | C   |

| C   | F C | C   | G   |
| C   | F C | C G | C   |


[Verse 1]
        C                C
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
   Am             Am
To glisten once again
     F                  F
Five hundred years like Gelignite
     Am              G
Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)
     C                           C
What savior rests while on his cross we die
   Am             Am
Forgotten freedom burns
        F                F
Has the Shephard led his lambs astray
       Am            G
to the bigot and the gun
 
[Chorus]
        F               C
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    F              G
To glisten once again
         C        F                     Am
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        C       G    C
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Post-chorus]
| C   | F C | C   | G   |
| C   | F C | C G | C   |


[Verse 2]
  C                   C
I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes
         Am            Am
Turn a darker shade of red
         F               F
And the bullet with this sniper lie
         Am              G
In their bloody gutless cell
         C                    C
Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
              Am                Am
Through these bars of men made steel
          F                        F
Is it a great or little thing we fought
          Am                    G
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill


[Chorus]
        F               C
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    F              G
To glisten once again
         C        F                     Am
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        C       G    C
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Bridge]
        F              G         C
Ah, but maybe it`s the way we're taught
   F              G      C
Or maybe it`s the way we fought
      F           G             C        F
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
         F         G          C    C
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
       F               C
Though nothing left to gain
            F                      G
But for the banshee that stole the grave
         C        F                     Am
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        C       G    C
Singin' drunken lullabies (right!)


[Solo]
| C   | F C | C   | G   |
| C   | F C | C G | C   |
 
| C   | F C | C   | G   |
| C   | F C | C G | C   |
 
| F   | Am    | F   | G   |
| C F |  Am | C G | C   |


[Verse 3]
   C                  C
I sit in and dwell on faces past
     Am               Am
Like memories seem to fade
      F            F
No color left but black and white
    Am                  G
And soon will all turn grey
              C               C
But may these shadows rise to walk again
      Am           Am
With lessons truly learnt
         F                  F
When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
      Am               G
Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)


[Chorus]
        F               C
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    F              G
To glisten once again
         C        F            Em       Am
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        C       G    C
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Outro]
         C        F                     Am
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        C           G       C   F      Am
Singin' drunken... lul... abies
        C       G    C
Singin' drunken lullabies