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Border Song

Elton John

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From: scribepa@aol.com (Scribepa)
Subject: CRD/TAB Border song

Border song

RIFF: C   F C

Am       E7/G#       Am    E7/G#      Am
Holy moses           i have been    removed
C                      G/B          C                     Esus   E
I have seen the spectre      he has been here too
C                            G/B
Distant cousin from down the line
F                               Dm
brand of people who ain't my kind
F    F#dim  C/G
ho   ly     moses
F6/G                     C     F  C
I have been removed

holy moses I have been deceived
Now the wind has changed direction and I have to leave
Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea
holy moses, i have been deceived
C                             C/E               F
I'm going back to the border where my affairs
         C/G          F/G        C
Where my affairs aint abused
                        F
I can't take any more bad water
          D/F#                                               F/G
been poisoned from my head down to my shoes
            C     F C
Oh

Holy moses let us live in peace
let us strive to find a way to make our hatred cease
there's a man over there
what's his color? I don't care
F    F#dim  C/G    F/G             C
He's my brother, let us live in peace.
F    F#dim  C/G    F/G             C
He's my brother, let us live in peace.
F    F#dim  C/G    G7
He's my brother, let us,
Dm7                C        FC    FC
Let us live in peace.