99 Red Balloons

[Verse 1]
[E]              [F#m]
You and I in a little toy shop
      [A]
buy a bag of balloons with
    [B]
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]
99 red balloons go by

[Vamp]
[E]
[E]      [B]

[Verse 2]
[E]  [F#m]
99 red balloons
[A]               [B]
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]
As 99 red balloons go by

[E]   [F#m]  [A]  [B]  x2

[Verse 3]
[E]    [F#m]
99 Decision Street,
[A]    [B]
99 ministers meet
   [E]             [F#m]
To worry, worry, super-scurry
[A]                       [B]
Call out the troops now 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]
As 99 red balloons go by

[Vamp]
[E]
[E]      [B]

[Verse 4]
[E]  [F#m]
99 Kriegsminister
[A]               [B]
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
[E]                 [F#m]
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
[A]               [B]
Witterten schon fette Beute
[E]                 [F#m]
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
[A]                [B]
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
[E]              [F#m]
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
      [A]  [B]
Wegen 99 Luftballons

[E]  [F#m]  [A]  [B]

[Verse 5]
[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 the 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 it is, a red balloon
[A]                  [B]
I think of you and let it go