Roger Waters – What God Wants Part I (Guitar)

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Artist: Roger Waters Song: What God Wants Part I Album: Amused to Death Notes: Power chords unless noted [Intro]
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What God wants God gets God help us all

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What God wants God gets God help us all (God gets)

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What God wants God gets God help us all (what God wants God gets)

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What God wants God gets God help us all
[Chorus]
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What God wants           God gets
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What God wants           God gets
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What God wants           God gets
G F G D F G F G D F G F G D F G F G D F G F G D F G F G D F [Verse I]
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The kid in the corner looked at the priest

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And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar

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The priest said,    God wants goodness, God wants light, God wants mayhem, God wants a clean fight

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What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets
[Pre-Chorus]
      Em
Don't look so surprised

          Csus4  C
It's only dogma

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 The alien prophet cried

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The beetle and the springbok

         D#
Took the Bible from its hook

    Dsus4
The monkey in the corner

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Wrote the lesson in his book
[Chorus]
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What God wants           God gets

G    F   G    D F   G    F   G    D  F
What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets
[Verse II]
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God wants peace, God wants war, God wants famine, God wants chain stores

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What God wants           God gets

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God wants sedition, God wants sex, God wants freedom, God wants semtex

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What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets
[Pre-Chorus]
      Em
Don't look so surprised

         Csus4  C
I'm only joking

Em               Csus4  C
 The alien comic cried

    F             Em
The jackass and hyena

         D#
Took the feather from its hook

    Dsus4
The monkey in the corner

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Wrote the joke down in his book
[Chorus]
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What God wants           God gets

G    F   G    D F   G    F   G    D  F
What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets

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What God wants           God gets
[Verse III]
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God wants boarders, God wants crack, God wants rainfall, God wants wetbacks

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What God wants           God gets

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God wants voodoo, God wants shrines, God wants law, God wants organised crime

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God wants crusade, God wants jihad, God wants good, God wants bad
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What God wants           God gets
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What God wants           God gets
F E F E F E F E F F#
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What God wants           God gets
F E F E F E F E F F#
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What God wants           God gets