X – I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (Guitar)

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[Intro] E C#m7 E D7 A [Verse]
    E
The facts we hate
We'll never meet
                 D7
Walking down the road
Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up!"
    E
But I'm waiting for you
I must go slow
  D
I must not think bad thoughts
When is this world coming to?
E
Both sides are right
But both sides murder
D7
I give up

               A
Why can't they?
[Chorus]
  F#m      A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

  F#m      A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

  F#m      A         B
I must not think bad thoughts
[Verse]
    E
The civil wars
And the uncivilized wars
D7                      D9
Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace

    E
The food cooks poorly
And everyone goes hungry
     D7
From then on, it's dog eat dog

D9
Dog eat body and body eat dog

E
I can't go down there

D7
I can't understand it

E
I'm a no-good coward
An American, too
   D7
(A North American, that is)
[Chorus] And I must not think bad thoughts (Not a South)
E
And I must not think bad thoughts (or a Central)
And I must not think bad thoughts (or a Native American)
      D7
Oh, I must not think bad thoughts

                     D9
I must not think bad thoughts
[Verse]
C#7           E
I'm guilty of murder
Of innocent men
         D7
Innocent women, innocent children
Thousands of 'em
E
My planes, my guns
My money, my soldiers
 D7
My blood on my hands
It's all my fault [Chorus]
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts
B7
    E
The facts we hate
You'll never hear us
   D7                        D9
"I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music!

              E
You know, the British invasion"
But what about the Minutemen
D7
Flesh Eaters, D.O.A

                 D9
Big Boys and the Black Flag?

         E
Will the last American band to get played on the radio

D7
Please bring the flag?

                  D9
Please bring the flag!

E
Glitter disco synthesizer night school

         D7
All this noble savage drum drum drum

E
Astronauts go back in time to hang out with the cave people

D7
It's about time
It's about space
     E
It's about some people in the strangest places

Woody Guthrie sang about
D                      A
B-E-E-T-S, not B-E-A-T-S
[Chorus]
F#m        A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts

    E
The facts we hate
We'll never meet
                 D7
Walking down the road
Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up! Hurry up!"
    E
But I'm waiting for you
I must go slow
  D7
I must not think bad thoughts
When is this world coming to?
E
Both sides are right
But both sides murder
D7
I give up

A
Why can't they?
[Chorus]
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts

F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts
[Outro] E D7 D9 D7 E D7 Am E D7 D9 E D7 D E D7 D E D7