Road To Peace Chords by Tom Waits
- Key: Am
- BPM: 109
- Capo: no capo
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ROAD TO PEACE CHORDS
[Intro] [Verse] Am7 Am ■ ■ Young Abdel Mahdi was only eighteen years old D7 E7 B7 E7 He was the youngest of nine children never spent a night away from home Dm E7 Am And his mother held his photograph opening the New York Times E7 Am E7 Am To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace E7 Am D7 Am There ■ ■ was a tall thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew E7 E On a crowded bus in Jerusalem some had survived World War Two ■ [Chorus] Dm E7 E Am And the thunderous explosion blew out windows two hundred yards away E7 Am E7 Am D7 Am E7 Am With ■ more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace [Verse] Am7 D7 Am E7 Am Now at King George Ave and ■ Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus fourteena E7 Am E7 In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi [Chorus] Dm E Am And the last thing that he said on earth is God is great and God is good Bm7 Am E7 Am7 E7 Am G And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace ■ [Verse] Am Am7 E7 Am7 ■ Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon B7 Am7 D7 Am7 Am Yasser Taha Israel says is an Hamas senior militant [Chorus] Dm E E7 E Am And Israel sent four choppers in flames engulfed ■ tears wide open E7 Am Dm Am E7 Am And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons [Verse] Am7 Am Am7 E7 Am E7 ■ ■ It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of G the cameras Am Am7 E7 Am But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car Dm E E7 Am There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV E7 Am Dm Am E7 Am Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace [Chorus] E Am E7 Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday Am Am7 Am E7 Am Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers Dm E7 E Am So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians E7 Am E7 Am They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace [Verse] E7 Am B7 Am7 Am ■ And this is our land we will fight with all our force say the Palastinians and the Jews E7 Am E7 Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance [Chorus] Dm E7 E E7 Am If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out Am7 Am E7 Am Em7 Am And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace ■ ■ [Verse] Em7 B7 Am7 D7 Am7 E7 Am7 Am Am7 ■ Once Kissinger said we have no friends America only has interests ■ B7 E7 Am E7 Am Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for reelection [Chorus] Dm E7 Am But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures E7 Am Am7 So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press ten zero miles from the road to peace ■ [Verse] B7 Am E Am In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi ■ E7 Am He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy [Chorus] Dm E E7 E Am He was an excellent student he studied so hard it was as if he had a future B7 Am E7 Am7 Am He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace ■ E7 Am The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace D7 Am E7 Am But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets Dm E7 E Am And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men Am Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help Am7 Maybe God himself he needs all of our help Am Maybe God himself is lost and needs help E7 Am Am7 He's out upon the road to peace ■ Am E7 Am E7 Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help E7 Maybe God himself he needs all of our help Am And he's lost upon the road to peace [Outro] Em7 Am And he's lost upon the road to peace Am Out upon the road to peace Am7 G Am7 G Am ■ ■ ■ ■ ■