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SAVE THE WORLD (George Harrison)

From the album "Somewhere in England", 1981

Transcripted by Danilo Fiani (danilofiani@hotmail.com)

Fm7(b5) (aka Fdim)

X X 3 4 3 4

F#m7(b5) (aka F#dim)

X X 4 5 4 5

0 3 2 0 0 0

Co

X 3 4 2 4 X

X 3 3 2 1 1

Intro:

(1st slide guitar)

C Co Fm7(b5) G

Chorus :

We've got to save the world

Someone else may want to use it

So far we've seen

This planet's rape,

how we've abused it

We've got to save the world

Interlude

[C Co Fm7(b5)]

The Russians have the biggest share

With their long fingers everywhere

And now they've bombs in outer space

F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)

With laser beams and atomic waste

Rain forest chopped for paper towels

One acre gone in every hour*

Our birds and wildlife all destroyed

F Fm [C Co F G]

To keep some millionaires employed (different interlude)

We've got to save the whale

Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse it

But dog food salesmen

Persist on kindly to harpoon it

We've got to save the world

[C Co F]

The armament consortium

They're selling us plutonium

Now you can make your own H-bomb

F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)

Right in the kitchen with your mom

The nuclear power that costs you more

Than anything you've known before

The half-wit's answer to a need

F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)

For cancer, death, destruction, greed

[SOLO: repeat the verses above chords]

[Repeat the intro]

We've got to save the world

Someone's children they may need it

So far we've seen

The big business of extinction bleed it

We've got to save the world

We're at the mercy of so few

With evil hearts determined to

Reduce this planet into hell

F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)

Then find a buyer and make quick sale

To end upon a happy note

Like trying to make concrete float

Is very simple knowing that

God in your heart lives

We've got to save the world

Someone else may want to use it

It's time you knew

How close we've come

We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save

C Co Fm7(b5) C

We gotta save the world.

Comments:

1) The slide guitar interludes vary. I've transcripted one from the

introduction (there are two, making a dobro) just in case of identifying

the main melody.

2) I really dislike this song. It has a quite bizarre chords sequency that

doesn't make a beautiful result. And the lyrics are very poor, not to

mention the "Russians" part, that reveals a very shallow knowledge about the facts

or, at least, a kind of ingenuity from my (our) favorite songwriter/musician.

I'm the biggest George Harrison fan in the world, for sure... but this song, along

with only 2 or 3 other songs from his entire career, is unpassable.

3) Why had I spent my time transcripting it? Well, "a friend came to me, and told

me that he wanted help"... so it was worthwile.