E
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You and I in a little toy shop
A
B
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we got
E
F#m
Set them free at the break of dawn
A
B
Till one by one, they were gone
E
F#m
Back at base, bugs in the software
A
B
Flash the message: Something’s out there…
E
F#m
Floating in the summer sky
A
B
E
F#m
A
B
99 Red Balloons go by.. .
E
F#m
99 Red Balloons
A
B
Floating in the summer sky
E
F#m
Panicking, it’s red alert
A
B
There’s something here from somewhere else
E
F#m
War machines spring to life
A
B
Opens up one eager eye
E
F#m
Focusing it on the sky
A
B
E
Where 99 Red Balloons go by…
E
F#m
99 Decision street
A
B
99 ministers meet
E
F#m
To worry, worry; super scurry
A
B
Call the troops out in a hurry
E
F#m
This is what we’ve waited for
A
B
This is it, boys, this is war
E
F#m
The president is on the line
A
B
E
F#m
A
B
As 99 Red Balloons go by. ..
E
F#m
99 knights of the air
A
B
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
E
F#m
Everyone’s a super hero
A
B
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
E
F#m
With orders to identify
A
B
To clarify and classify
E
F#m
Scramble in the summer sky
A
B
E
F#m
As 99 Red Balloons go by …
A
B
E
F#m
A
B
As 99 Red Balloons go by …
E
F#m
99 dreams I have had
A
B
In each and every red balloon
E
F#m
It’s all over and I’m standing pretty
A
B
In the dust that was a city
E
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If i could find a souveneir
A
B
Just to prove the world was here
E
F#m
And here is a red balloon
A
B
E
I think of you and let it go…