Phil Ochs – All Quiet On The Western Front (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
    G                     F
The oil is flowing in the ocean so blue.

    C                      D
The people are crazy; they don't know what to do.

        G                       Em          C
And the famines will follow the freeways so new.

         Am  D            Em
And it's all quiet on the western front.
[Verse 2]
    G                        F
The murdering missiles, they point to the sky.

    C                     D
The loyal townspeople are ready to die.

         G                 Em          C
And it's ever so lonely to live with a lie.

         Am  D            G
And it's all quiet on the western front.

  Am                  D            Em
I think I'll join the National Liberation Front.
[Verse 3]
    G                      F
The boys on the bases thеy play at the ball

    C                      D
The stock market risеs the stock market falls

        G                        Em         C
And the high school principal is led to the wall

         Am      D             Em
And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front
[Verse 4]
G                 F
Civilized nations abide by the code

     C                         D
They learn from the victors to do what they're told

     G                       Em        C
Even Israel is marching down Germany's road

         Am      D             G
And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front

  Am                  D            Em
I guess I'll join the National Liberation Front
[Verse 5]
    G                       F
The war babies try to crawl back to the womb

C                        D
Assassins and astronauts race to the moon

    G                      Em           C
And Eisenhower lies like a saint in his tomb

         Am      D             Em
And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front
[Verse 6]
  G                      F
I sit on my back porch I sing on my song

  C                          D
I wait for the earthquake to come with the dawn

   G                           Em          C
If there was a god it wouldn't take him so long

         Am      D             G
And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front

  Am                  D            Em
I guess I'll join the American Liberation Front