99 Red Balloons

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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You and I in a little toy shop
      A                        B
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
E                    F#m
Set them free at the break of dawn
     A           B
'Til one by one, they were gone
E                    F#m
Back at base, bugs in   the software
A
Flash the message,
B
"Something's out there"
E               F#m
Floating in the summer sky
A           B                E E
Ninety nine red balloons go by.

[Verse 2]
E           F#m          A               B
Ninety nine red balloons floating in the summer sky
E                 F#m
Panic bells, it's red alert
        A                   B
There's something here from somewhere else
    E               F#m
The war machine, it springs to life
A            B
Opens up one eager eye
  E         F#m
Focusing it on the sky
   A           B                E
As ninety nine red balloons go by.

[Solo 1]
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[Verse 3]
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Ninety nine Decision Street,
A             B
Ninety nine ministers meet
   E             F#m
To worry, worry, super-scurry
A                       B
Call out the troops now in a hurry
E                  F#m
This is what we've waited for
A                B
This is it boys, this is war
    E            F#m
The president is on the line
   A           B               E  E
As ninety nine red balloons go by.

[Verse 4]
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Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister
A                  B
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
E                 F#m
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
A               B
Witterten schon fette Beute
E                 F#m
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
A                B
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
E              F#m
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
      A              B          E
Wegen Neunundneunzig Luftballons

[Solo]
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[Outro]
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Ninety nine dreams I  have had
   A           B
In every one a red balloon
E                     F#m
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
A                 B
In the dust that was a city
   E              F#m
If I could find a souvenir
A                 B
Just to prove the world was here...
    E             F#m
And here it is, a red balloon
  A                B
I think of you and let it go.