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Subject: CRD: When the World Is Running Down
Keywords: chords
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 20:12:28 GMT
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WHEN THE WORLD IS RUNNING DOWN (YOU MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT S STILL AROUND)
Original music by: Sting
Performance by: The Police
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CHORDS:
C9sus D9 sus Emin7(add11)
333333 555555 777787
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C9sus D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
1. Turn on my VCR Same one I had for years
2. Turn on the radio The static hurts my ears
3. Plug in my MCI To exercise my brain
4. When I feel lonely here Don t waste my time with tears
Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
James Brown on the TAMI show Same tape I ve had for years
Tell me where I would go I Ain t been out for years
Make records on my own Can t go out in the rain
I run _DEEP_THROAT_ again it ran and ran for years
C9sus D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
I sit in my old car same one I ve had for years
Turn on the stereo It s played for years and years
Pick up the telephone I ve listened here for years
Don t like the food I eat the cans are running out
Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
Old battery s running down It ran and ran for years
An Otis Redding song It s all I own (WHEN THE)
No one to talk to me I ve listened here for years (WHEN THE)
Same food for years and years I hate the food I eat (WHEN THE)
CHORUS (Repeat)
C9sus D9sus
/ / / / | / / / /
The World is running down you make
Emin7(add11)
/ / / / | / / / /
The best of whats still around---- when the
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Performance notes:
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 3
Chorus
Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)
Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)
Verse 4
Chorus
Chorus
Verse 1 (FADE OUT)
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G.K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)