Capo on 2nd fret
(Strum these chords once at a time:) (no intro)
[1st Verse]
D Em
You and I in a little toy shop
G A
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we got
D Em
Set them free at the break of dawn
G A
Till one by one, they were gone
D Em
Back at base, bugs in the software
G A
Flash the message: Something's out there...
D Em
Floating in the summer sky
G A D Em G A
99 Red Balloons go by...
[2nd Verse]
D Em
99 Red Balloons
G A
Floating in the summer sky
D Em
Panic bells, it's red alert
G A
There's something here from somewhere else
D Em
The war machine springs to life
G A
Opens up one eager eye
D Em
Focusing it on the sky
G A D (hold)
Where 99 Red Balloons go by...
(pick back up with [3rd Verse])
D Em
99 Decision street
G A
99 ministers meet
D Em
To worry, worry; super scurry
G A
Call the troops out in a hurry
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D Em
This is what we've waited for
G A
This is it, boys, this is war
D Em
The president is on the line
G A D Em G A
As 99 Red Balloons go by...
[4th Verse]
D Em
99 knights of the air
G A
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
D Em
Everyone's a super hero
G A
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
D Em
With orders to identify
G A
To clarify and classify
D Em
Scramble in the summer sky
G A D Em
As 99 Red Balloons go by...
G A D Em G A
As 99 Red Balloons go by...
(Strum these last chords once at a time:)
[5th Verse] (last verse:)
D Em
99 dreams I have had
G A
In every one a red balloon
D Em
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
G A
In the dust that was a city
D Em
If I could find a souveneir
G A
Just to prove the world was here
D Em
And here is a red balloon
G A
I think of you and let it go...
