Road To Peace
Tom Waits
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E|E|------------------------------ E|---------------------------------- E|---------------------------------- E|--|| Tom Waits - Road To Peace E|E|------------------------------ E|---------------------------------- E|---------------------------------- E|--||Album : Orphans (2009) Tempo : 110 E-mail: gwendal.mollo@orange.fr Tabbed by: newg [Intro] Am E7 x4 [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 Young Abdel Mahdi Shahmay wasAm E7 Am E7 only eighteen years oldAm E7 He was the youngest of nineAm E7 Am children, never spent a nightE7 away from home.Dm And his mother held his photograph,E7 Am E7 up in the New York TimesAm E7 Am E7 To see the killing hasAm E7 Am E7 intensified along the road toAm E7 peace [Verse]Am E7 Am There was a tall, thin boy withE7 Am a whispy moustache disguised as anE7 Am E7 orthodox JewAm E7 Am E7 On a crowded bus in Jerusalem,Am E7 Am E7 some had survived World War TwoDm And the thunderous explosion blewE7 Am E7 out windows 200 yards awayAm E7 Am With more retribution andE7 Am E7 Am seventeen dead along the road toE7 Am E7 peace [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 Now at King George Ave andAm E7 Am E7 Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14aAm E7 Am In the aisle next to the driverE7 Am E7 Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)Dm And the last thing that he said onE7 earth is "God is great and God isAm E7 good"Am E7 Am And he blew them all to kingdomE7 Am E7 Am E7 come upon the road to peaceAm E7Continúa después del anuncio[Verse]Am E7 Am Now in response to this anotherE7 Am E7 Am E7 kiss of death was visited uponAm E7 Am E7 Yasser Taha, Israel says is anAm E7 Hamas senior militantDm And Israel sent four choppers in,E7 Am flames engulfed his white OpelE7Am E7 Am And it killed his wife and hisE7 Am three year old child leavingE7 Am E7 Am E7 only blackened skeletons [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 It's found his toddlers bottleAm E7 Am E7 and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the camerasAm E7 But Israel says they did notAm E7 Am E7 know that his wife and child were in the carDm There are roadblocks everywhere andE7 Am E7 only suffering on TVAm E7 Am E7 Neither side will ever give upAm E7 Am E7 their smallest right along theAm E7 road to peace [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 Israel launched it's latestAm E7 Am E7 campaign against Hamas on TuesdayAm E7 Two days later Hamas shot backAm E7 Am E7 and killed five Israeli soldiersDm So thousands dead and wounded onE7 both sides most of them middleAm E7 eastern civiliansAm E7 Am E7 They fill the children full ofAm E7 Am E7 hate to fight an old man's warAm E7 and die upon the road to peace [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 "And this is our land we willAm E7 Am E7 fight with all our force" say the Palestinians and the JewsAm E7 Each side will cut off the handAm E7 Am E7 of anyone who tries to stop the resistanceDm If the right eye offends thee thenE7 Am E7 you must pluck it outAm E7 Am E7 And Mahmoud Abbas said SharonAm E7 Am E7 had been lost out along the roadAm E7 to peace [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 Once Kissinger said "we haveAm E7 Am E7 no friends, America only has interests"Am E7 Now our president wants to beAm E7 Am E7 seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-electionDm But Bush is reluctant to risk hisE7 future in the fear of his politicalAm E7 failuresAm E7 Am E7 So he plays chess at his deskAm E7 Am E7 and poses for the press 10,000Am E7 miles from the road to peace [Verse]Am E7 Am E7 In the video that they foundAm E7 Am E7 at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)Am E7 He held a Kalashnikov rifle andAm E7 Am E7 he spoke with a voice like a boyDm He was an excellent student, heE7 studied so hard, it was as if heAm E7 had a futureAm E7 Am E7 He told his mother that he had aAm E7 Am E7 test that day out along the roadAm E7 to peace(Am E7) The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?Dm And if God is great and God is goodE7 why can't he change the hearts ofAm E7 men?(Am E7) Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help Maybe God himself is lost and needs help He's out upon the road to peace Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help And he's lost upon the road to peace And he's lost upon the road to peace Out upon the road to peace.
