99 RED BALLOONS capo 2nd D Em G A

you and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got
set them free at the break of dawn till one by one they were gone

back at base bugs in the software flash the message “something’s out there
floating in the summer sky, 99 red balloons go by
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99 Red balloons floating in the summer sky
panic bells it’s Red Alert, there’s something here from somewhere else

War machine springs to life, opens up one eager eye
Focusing in on the sky, 99 Red Balloons go by
(Instr 2 x)

99 decisions street, 99 ministers meet
to worry worry super scurry , call the troops out in a hurry

this is what we’ve waited for, this is it boys, this is war
the president has sound the line, as 99 red balloons go by
(Instr 2 x)

99 lights up the air, while super hi tech jet fighters
every one’s a super hero, every one’s a Captain Kirk

with orders to Identify, to clarify and classify
scramble in the summer sky, as 99 red balloons go by
(Instr 4x then slow)

99 dreams I have had, every one a red balloon
it’s all over and I’m standing pretty, in this dust that was a city
if I could find a souveneir, just to prove the world was here
and here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go……….