Standard (EADGBE)
(3rd fret): xxx343
(5th fret): xxx565
Cadd9 (4th fret)/C9(4 Fr): x54055
Intro
, , , (3rd fret), (5th fret) [x2]
Verse 1
We sent in the army
They sounded alarms we
Saw it coming from a mile away.
We kept it off radar
Cause we had to say our
Intentions were to save the day.
[Pre-Refrain]
Why did you fail to see?
Refrain
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
And they were shocked and they were awed
and they were blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg
Verse 2
We kept it all long-range
and made a regime change
You'd have thought it would have been a gas
But when it got ugly
We sat around smugly
Because you bought our little joke en masse
[Pre-Refrain]
Don't look at me that way
Refrain
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
We knew your sons and daughters
Would be blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg
Bridge
Put a smile on
[G/f#]
We're the ones that you selected
Leave that dial son
[G/f#]
Because we just got re-elected
In a while our
[G/f#]
Bill of rights will be rejected
[G/f#]
and all the blame will be deflected
[G/f#]
the forests will be unprotected
[G/f#]
the nation's poor will be neglected
[G/f#]
creation myth is resurrected
[G/f#]
a new salute is genuflected
[G/f#]
a gallup poll will be respected
[G/f#]
gallows pole will be erected
all this will go undetecteeeeeeeeeeeed
Verse 3
While you all slumbered
We sat and crunched numbers
Of all the causalities we could afford
There's no need to draft them
You could hear us laugh then
The poor and black all need the room and board
[Pre-Refrain]
Did I say that out loud?
Refrain
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
And now our very nation has been blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg
Coda
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
We knew this barrel of fun would be a powder keg
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
It's a powder keg
(4 Fr)
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah [x2]
[End on G]