Chorus : 
 
              G7        C     Cmaj7  
We've got to save the world 
 
Bb      D7               F#m7(b5)   G 
Someone else may want to use it 
Bb                A7 
    So far we've seen 
         Dm 
This planet's rape, 
             G#7     G 
 how we've abused it 
              G7 
We've got to save the world 
 
Interlude 
C   Co   Fm7(b5)
 
C                      G 
The Russians have the biggest share 
C                        G 
  With their long fingers everywhere 
F 			   A7	 
  And now they've bombs in outer space 
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  With laser beams and atomic waste 
C				G 
 Rain forest chopped for paper towels 
C		   G 
 One acre gone in every hour* 
F                       A7 
 Our birds and wildlife all destroyed 
F                   Fm          C     Cº   F/C    G 
 To keep some millionaires employed    (different interlude) 
 
             G7          C     Cmaj7 
We've got to save the whale 
Bb                  D         F#m7(b5)  G 
Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse    it 
Bb                A7 
   But dog food salesmen 
    Dm                   G#7  G 
Persist on kindly to harpoon it 
              G7 
We've got to save the world 
 
C     Cº   F/C
 
C                  G 
  The armament consortium 
C                        G  
  They're selling us plutonium 
F                      A7 
  Now you can make your own H-bomb 
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  Right in the kitchen with your mom 
  
C                        G 
 The nuclear power that costs you more 
C                       G 
 Than anything you've known before 
F                      A7 
 The half-wit's answer to a need 
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 For cancer, death, destruction, greed 
 
SOLO: repeat the verses above chords
 
Repeat the intro
 
	      G7	C     Cmaj7 
We've got to save the world 
Bb          D                F#m7(b5)   G 
Someone's children they may need it 
Bb              A7 
  So far we've seen 
    Dm                  G#7           G 
The big business of extinction bleed it 
               G7          C     Co    F  
We've got to save the world 
    
C		    G 
 We're at the mercy of so few 
C                    G 
 With evil hearts determined to 
F                   A7 
 Reduce this planet into hell 
F                      Fm            C   |Cº  Fm7(b5)| (fast passage) 
 Then find a buyer and make quick sale 
 
C                  G 
 To end upon a happy note 
C                    G 
 Like trying to make concrete float 
F                 A7 
 Is very simple knowing that 
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 God in your heart lives 
 
G                G7          C   Cmaj7  
   We've got to save the world 
Bb        D              F#m7(b5)  G  
Someone else may want to use      it 
Bb               A7 
  It's time you knew 
      Dm             
How close we've come 
             G#7  G             G7 
We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save 
                     C    Co  Fm7(b5)  C 
We gotta save the world.