Verse 1EB/D#C#mA boy and a girl, albatross around their necks
G#mF#m
Hands burning from the rope, ships stranded in the tropics
BEB/D#C#m
Acidification wiped out the tiger shark
G#mF#m
Let's try to save their souls, and trust the man with the Torah
Chorus 1EB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
AE/G#F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
BEB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
AE/G#F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
Verse 2EB/D#C#m
Breathe in the salt, slicing waves at forty knots
G#mF#m
Cumulonimbus in the sky, this is what we've waited for
EB/D#
And now there's no more hyperventilating in wheelchairs
BC#m
We're gonna save the last dog on Funk Islands
G#mF#m
We're had to do it wrong before we could do it right
Chorus 2EB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
AE/G#F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
BEB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
AE/G#F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
BridgeAE/G#F#mE
Pushing the stone up the hill and if it rolls back
AE/G#F#mE
Down, whoa, Sisyphus it rolls back down
AE/G#F#mE
Pushing the stone up the hill and if it rolls back
AE/G#F#mE
Down, whoa, Sisyphus it rolls back down
Chorus 3EB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
AE/G#F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
BEB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
AE/G#F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
EB/D#C#mAE/G#F#mOutroEB/D#C#m
We got the wind in our sail (we got the wind in our sail)
AE/G#F#mE
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