Megadeth – Holy Wars The Punishment Due (Guitar)

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“I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.” - Dave Mustaine [Verse 1]
Em                                  D
Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land

A                               C
Killing for religion, Something I don't understand

Em                                    D
Fools like me, who cross the sea, And come to foreign lands

A                                        C
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs, Do you kill on God's command?

  Em                      D
A country that's divided, Surely will not stand

   A                              C
My past erased, no more disgrace, No foolish naive stand

    Em                                    D
The end is near, it's crystal clear, Part of the master plan

A                            C
Don't look now to Israel, It might be your homelands

Em
Holy wars
[Verse 2]
Em                                          D
Upon my podium, as the Know it all scholar

Em                                                         D
Down in my seat of judgement, Gavel's bang, uphold the law

Em                                                        D
Up on my soapbox, a leader, Out to change the world, Down in my

Em                                              D      Em
Pulpit as the holier, Than-thou, could-be-messenger of God

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
Em              D
Wage the war on organized crime

A                             C                 D
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks, Behind the lines

Em                                D
    Some people risk to employ me,  Some people live to destroy me

A                    C     D
 Either way they die.  They  die
[Solo] G Bb G Bb G Bb G F#m F Em
[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
     Em                         D
They killed my wife and my baby,  With hopes to enslave me

A                 C    D
  First mistake... last mistake

Em                   D
Paid by the alliance,  to slay all the giants

A               C        D
  Next mistake... no more mistakes!
[Solo] G Bb G Bb G Bb G F#m F Em [Verse 5]
Em                       D
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite

  A                           C
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't Thinkin' it

Em                                             D
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away

  A                            C
I know what I said, now I must   scream

       Em    D
of the ov-er-dose

        A             C
And the lack of mercy killers

      Em              D
Mercy killings, mercy killers

        A
Killers killers killers

C                           D                  Em
Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away.