Guns and Roses - Civil War

Originally in Ebm, I play in Em but don’t go up in the choruses, since it goes up to the 7

Intro, spoken

What we've got here is failure to communicate
Some men, you just can't reach
So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it
Well, he gets it, and I don't like it any more than you men

Intro, with spoken part and whistling

Em	G	Em	G	D/F#
			→

Em	G	Em	G	D/F#
			→

Vox on the 3 of the minor chord on “look”

Look at your young men fighting

Look at your women crying

Look at your young men dying

	G	D/F#
The w	ay they’ve always	done before

Em	G	Em	G	D/F#
			→

Look at the hate we’re breeding

Look at the fear we’re feeding

Look at the lives we’re leading

	G	D/F#
The w	ay we’ve always d	one before

A	A(#11)	A	A(#11)

	Em
My hands are tied

	G	G	D/F#
The bi	llions shift from side to side	→	→

	Em
And the wars	go on with brainwashed pride

	G	D
For the lov	e of god and our	human rights

	Em
And all	these things are swept aside

	G	G	D/F#
By blo	ody hands time can’t deny	→	→

	Em
And are wash	ed away by your genocide

	G	D	A
And his	tory hides the l	ies of our civil wars

A	B/A	C/A	D/A

Solo

Em	G	G	D/F#
		→	→

Em	G	D
Em	G	G	D/F#
		→	→

Em	G	D

	G	Bm
D’you wear a	black armband when they s	hot the man

	Em
Who said	“peace could last forever”

	G	Bm
And in my	first memories they	shot Kennedy

Em	C	D
I went numb when I	learned to s	ee

	G	Bm
So I	never fell for	Vietnam

	Em
We got the	wall of D.C. to remind us all

	G
That you	can’t trust freedom

	Bm
When it’s	not in your hands

	Em
When e	verybody’s fightin’

	C	D
For their	promised land	and

G	Bm	Em
I don’t n	eed your civil	war

G	Bm	Em	C	D
It feeds the	rich while it buries the	poor	→	→

G	Bm	Em
You’re power h	ungry sellin’ soldiers in a	human grocery store, ain’t that fresh

G	Bm	Em	C	D
I don’t n	eed your civil	war, oooh	no no	no no no

Solo

G	Bm	Em	Em
G	Bm	Em	C	D
			→	→

G	Bm	Em	Em
G	Bm	Em	C	D
			→	→

Look at the shoes you’re filling

Look at the blood we’re spilling

Look at the world we’re killing

	G	D/F#
The w	ay we’ve always d	one before

Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed

Look at the leaders we’ve followed

Look at the lies we’ve swallowed

	G	D/F#
And	I don’t want to h	ear no more

A5	A(#11)	A5	A(#11)

	Em
My hands are tied

	G	G	D/F#
For al	l I’ve seen has changed my mind	→	→

	Em
But still the war	s go on and the years go by

	G	D
With no love	of god or h	uman rights

	Em
‘Cause a	ll these dreams are swept aside

	G	G	D/F#
By bl	oody hands of the hypnotized	→	→

	Em
Who carr	y the cross of homicide

	G	D	A
And his	tory bears the s	cars of our civil wars

A	B/A	C/A	D/A

Solo

Em	G	G	D/F#
		→	→

Em	G	D
Em	G	G	D/F#
		→	→

Em	G	D

Spoken

We practice selective annihilation
Of mayors and government officials
For example, to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer

A	B/A	C/A	D/A	F/A	D/A

G	Bm	Em
I don’t n	eed your civil war

G	Bm	Em	C	D
It feeds the ric	h while it buries the poor		→	→

G	Bm	Em
You’re power h	ungry sellin’ soldiers in a	human grocery store, ain’t that fresh

G	Bm	Em	C	D
I don’t n	eed your civil war		→	→

Double time

G	Bm	Em
I don’t n	eed your civil war

G	Bm	Em	C	D
I don’t n	eed your civil war		→	→

G	Bm	Em
You’re power h	ungry sellin’ soldiers in a	human grocery store, ain’t that fresh

G	Bm	Em	C	D
I don’t n	eed your civil war	no no no no oh	no oh	no oh no

G	Bm	Em
I don’t n	eed one more war

G	Bm	Em	C	D
			→	→

G	Bm	Em
	G	Bm	Em	C	D
Ooooh,	I don’t n	eed one more war	no no no no oh	no oh	no oh no

Em	Em	D	Em

Spoken

What’s so civil ‘bout war anyway?