E              F#m
You and I in a little toy shop
      A                        B
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
E                    F#m
Set them free at the break of dawn
     A                     B
'Til 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          A               B
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
E                 F#m
Panic bells, it's red alert
        A                   B
There's something here from somewhere else
    E           F#m                    
The war machine springs to life
 A            B
 Opens up one eager eye
E           F#m        
Focusing it on the sky
      A  B
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 every one a red balloon
E                      F#m 
 It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
A                 B
In this dust that was a city
   E              F#m 
If I could find a souvenier
A                 B 
Just to prove the world was here
E             F#m 
And here is a red balloon
A              B  
 I think of you and let it go