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BPM 119 [Intro] C# B A
[Verse] [C#] Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today [C#] If I don't get some shelter, oh yeah I'm gonna fade away
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away
[Verse] [C#] Ooh, see the fire is sweepin, our very streets today [C#] Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away, yeah
[Verse] [C#] Mmm, the flood is threatening, my very life today [C#] Gimme, gimme shelter, or I'm gonna fade away
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] It's [B] just a sho [A] t away, it's just a thought away, it's just a shot away [C#] I sai [B] d, love, s [A] ister, it's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away [C#] It's [B] just a kis [A] s away, it's just a kiss away, kiss away, kiss away, yeah
[Intro] [Em7][Em7][F#m7][B7#5-797887 - fingers 1 is barre - 141231] B7 but move 2nd finger up a string [Em7][Em7][F#m7][B7#5]
[Verse] I must've [Em7] died and gone to heaven Cos it was a [F#m7] quarter past e [B7#5] leven On a [Em7] Saturday in nineteen-nighty- [F#m7] nine [B7#5] Right a [Em7] cross from where I'm standing on the [F#m7] dance floor she was [B7#5] landing It was [Em7] clear that she was from another [F#m7] time [B7#5] Like some [Em7] baby Barbarella with the [F#m7] stars as her um [B7#5] brella She [Em7] asked me if I'd like to magne [F#m7] tise [B7#5] Do I [Em7] have to go star-trekking? Cos it's [F#m7] you I should be [B7#5] checking So she [Em7] laser-beamed me with her cosmic [F#m7] eyes [B7#5]
[Chorus Cycle round positions 2 and 4] [G#m7][F#m7] She's just a cosmic [B7] girl [C#m7] From another [G#m7] galaxy [F#m7] My heart's at zero [B7] gravity [C#m7] She's from a cosmic [G#m7] world [F#m7] Putting me in [B7] ecstasy [C#m7] Transmitting on my [G#m7] frequen [F#m7] cy She's cosm [B7] ic [C#m7]
[Instrumental] [Em7][Em7][F#m7][B7#5] x 4
[Verse 2] I'm [Em7] scanning all my radars cos she [F#m7] said she's from a [B7#5] quasar Forty [Em7] thousand million light years [F#m7] away [B7#5] It's a [Em7] distant solar system, I tried to [F#m7] phone but they don't [B7#5] list 'em So I [Em7] asked her for a number all the [F#m7] same [B7#5] She said, [Em7] step in my transporter so [F#m7] I can telep [B7#5] ort ya' [Em7] All around my heavenly [F#m7] body [B7#5] This could [Em7] be a close encounter I should [ F#m7] take care not to [B7#5] flounder [Em7] Sends me into hyperspace, [F#m7] when I see her [B7#5] pretty face
[Chorus] [G#m7][F#m7] She's just a cosmic [B7] girl [C#m7] From another [G#m7] galaxy [F#m7] My heart's at zero [B7] gravity [C#m7] She's from a cosmic [G#m7] world [F#m7] Putting me in [B7] ecstasy [C#m7] Transmitting on my [G#m7] frequen [F#m7] cy She's cosm [B7] ic [C#m7]
[Bridge] [G#m7] Sends me into [F#m7] hyperspace, when I see her pretty face [B7] Sends me into [C#m7] hyperspace, when I see her pretty face [G#m7] Sends me into [F#m7] hyperspace, when I see her pretty face [B7] Sends me into [C#m7] hyperspace, when I see her pretty face
[Outro Chorus] [G#m7] La-ah [F#m7] ah She's just a cosmic girl [B7][C#m7] From another [G#m7] galaxy [F#m7] Transmitting on my [B7] frequ [C#m7] ency Yeah, come here, [G#m7] for [F#m7] Can't you be my cosmic woman? [B7][C#m7] I need you, I want you [G#m7][F#m7] to be my cosmic girl for the r [B7] est of time [C#m7]
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