Guitar Chords & Tab: Don't Hold Your Breath

Don't Hold Your Breath  - Dave Dobbyn

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From 'Lament For The Numb'.
Transcribed by John Kean.
Chords joined by a dash together make up one bar's duration.

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INTRO

(chords: Em7 (022033)    Em7 - D (xx0232) repeat)

VERSE 1

(chords:  Em7   D - C+2 (x32030) repeat)

  The biggest companies in the world in conference
    In Geneva by the lake side
  Warm smiles, friendly faces
    Peace proposals in briefcases
  The lines of borders on the map on the table
    They replaced with dotted lines
  We read about it in free newspapers
    Then they started to unwind
  Within a week all the refugees of the world
    Lived in five-star hotels
  Twenty-four hour room-service
    Free telephone, no bills
  And the trucks got through to Africa
    Into Eritrea and the Sudan
  Laden down with Western surplus, it served it's purpose
    Eased a conscience or two

CHORUS

(chords as shown)

           C  -  D+4 (x54030)      G            -            C
  She said "Don't fool me now, I believe every word that you said
  C   -   D+4              Em7
    Don't hold out what is sounding so good, darling
  C   -   D+4            G            -              C
    Don't fool around or what you believe could come true
  C   -   D+4   Em7
    Don't hold    your breath
  C   -   D+4   Em7
    Don't hold    your breath"

REPEAT INTRO

VERSE 2

  U.S. congress voted Texas back to the Mexicans
    California to the Jews
  Huge tracts of Arizona to the Navaho
    Nevada to the Sioux
  The twelve tribes of Israel
    Got down in Gaza for the last time
  By the time they got to the West Bank, baby
    It was Palestine

BRIDGE

(chords:  C+2 repeat)

VERSE 3

  The French stopped nuking the Pacific
    They planted trees in Brazil instead
  And they made Antarctica a World Park, baby
    Plenty of ozone above your head

CHORUS

INTERLUDE

(chords as shown)

  Bm    -     C         A7    -    D
    All of my innocence long since turned to dust
  Bm    -     C         A7         -          D   Dsus2 (xx0230) - D
    I carry my cynicism like a tourist with a camera

VERSE 4

  You and me my sweet darling
    We'll grow old with Grace
  And our children will grow up
    In a valley of love
  They'll be so damn well educated
    So well informed
  And we'll sit back with our arms folded
    And watch 'em change, and watch it burn (?!)

CHORUS

(repeat last two lines)

OUTRO

(repeat intro chords to fade)

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