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]