Misc Musicals – Miss Saigon - Why God Why (Guitar)

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[Intro] Fmaj7 Cmaj7 [Verse]
Fmaj7
Why does Saigon never sleep at night? 

Cmaj7
Why does this girl smell of orange trees?

Fmaj7
How can I feel good when nothing's right?

Em 
Why is she cool when there is no breeze?

   Dm
Vietnam 

                               Dm
You don't give answers, do you friend? 

G                                  F/G  G
Just questions that don't ever end 
[Chorus]
C   Cmaj7 Am/C  C
Why God? Why today? 

Am      Am7          F/A    Am
I'm all through here, on my way 

        Dm
There's nothing left here that I'll miss 

    F/G                      G
Why send me now a night like this? 
[Verse]
Fmaj7
Who is the girl in this rusty bed? 

Cmaj7
Why am I back in a filthy room? 

Fmaj7
Why is her voice ringing in my head? 

Em 
Why am I high on her cheap perfume? 

   Dm 
Vietnam 

                          Dm
Hey look I mean you no offense 

G                                F/G  G
But why does nothing here make sense? 
[Chorus]
C   Cmaj7 Am/C     C
Why God? Show your hand 

Am        Am7    F/A    Am
Why can't one guy understand? 

Dm
I've been with girls who knew much more 

F/G                      G
I never felt confused before 
[Verse]
Eb  Ebmaj7 Cm/Eb      Eb
Why me? What's your plan? 

Cm      Cm7      Ab/C     Cm
I can't help her, no one can 

  Ab                Cm/F
I liked my mem'ries as they were 

    Bbsus            Bb
But now I'll leave rememb'ring her 
[Instrumental] Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Ebmaj7 Db Gb Gb Ab Gb/Ab Ab [Verse]
Db            
When I went home before 

Dbmaj7
No one talked of the war 

Bb/Db
What they knew from TV 

Db5                    Fm
Didn't have a thing to do with me 
Fm/Eb
Db
I went back and re-upped 

Dbmaj7
Sure Saigon is corrupt 

Bb/Db
It felt better to be 

Db5                  Bb7
Here driving for the embassy 

Ebm11
'Cause here if you can pull a string 

Absus
A guy like me lives like a king 

Ab                        A
Just as long as you don't believe anything 
[Instrumental] D D/C G/B Bb [Chorus]
D/A F#m/A Bm/A    D/A
Why God? Why this face? 

Bm        Bm7  G/B      Bm
Why such beauty in this place? 

  Bm/E              Em
I liked my mem'ries as they were

    Asus             A         G/A
But now I'll leave rememb'ring her 

     D
Just her
[Outro] Bm G Gmaj7 D