The Biggest Windmill

David Rovics

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G It was in the 1970’s, the fuel
C G crisis had begun
G C The choices were presented to us
D as if we had none
G C Leaders of industry said they
G could solve the problem
G By mastering the power of the
C D radioactive atom
Em Some folks in western Jutland got a
C D notion in their heads
Em They thought there might be
C something they could offer up
D instead
G A few hundred people gathered in a
C D little place called Tvind
Em And declared their will to harness
C D the power of the wind
G We’re gonna build the biggest
Em windmill in the world
C We’re gonna build the biggest
D G windmill in the world [Verse 2]
G There were many who said their
C G science wasn’t sound
G That such a mighty windmill would
C D simply topple to the ground
G Some of them were scientists, the
C D vast majority were not
G But they knew with years of effort
C D you could do a lot
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Em C Word about the project spread far
D and wide
Em A hundred thousand visitors came to
C D help and to advise
G Until one day these windmill
C D builders drove in with a crane
Em C And lifted up their giant wings
D with a mighty chain
G We’re gonna build the biggest
Em windmill in the world
C We’re gonna build the biggest
D G windmill in the world [Verse 3]
G When Tvindkraft was completed it
C G reached up to the sky
G C Its wings churned in the air at 54
D meters high
G C The critics all fell silent, no
D one now was jeering
G As even industry agreed this was
C D some damn fine engineering
Em The wind regaled Jutland from the
C D north Atlantic sea
Em As it was seamlessly converted into
C D electricity
G It was power for the people,
C D leukemia for none
G When they declared in Denmark just
C D south of the midnight sun
G We’re gonna build the biggest
Em windmill in the world
C We’re gonna build the biggest
D G windmill in the world [Verse 4]
G They gave away the patents, they
C G said knowledge should be free
G And their plans were copied by a
C D new-born industry
G Soon Denmark would be known as the
C D windmill-building nation
G And it all started with some
C D hippies at the Tvindkraft power station
Em Debates were held in parliament
C D about which way things should go
Em Build a nuclear reactor, the
C D majority said no
G It could have gone quite
C G differently — in much of the world it did
G Except for those in Ulfborg who
C D said we’re getting off the grid
G We’re gonna build the biggest
Em windmill in the world
C We’re gonna build the biggest
D Em windmill in the world
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