Candide Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Key: G

Chords used:

Verse 1

Bm--D-G

Stop the wrecking ball

Bm--D-G

Are you getting off?

Bm--D-G C

This course in melodrama

Bm--D-G

Wake me when it's over

Bm--D-G

Thin skin we're whipped again

Bm--D-G

They're merciless

Flag wavers Cprey and prosper

Bm--D-G

Escape with me father

Come onAm Bm come GonAm Bm

Chorus 1

C You and I have been around

Beaten up run out of town

Don't sayG "God's planned

the Amworld we live Bmin

G Take what you can Amget" it's Bmwritten

C Earth shakes and waters rise

A plague hits my

lover dies And you say

G "Best of all Ampossible Bmworlds

G Get by while it Amall unBmfurls"

Verse 2

Bm--D-G

Syphilis aren't

you sick of this

Bm--D-G

Give me a hand

Bm--D-G

To the taking

Cback of our fate

Bm--D-G

Believe in another

There's a little

Bm--D-G

patch of land there

Bm--D-G

Just up ahead

Slow and steady Cwe can prosper

Bm--D-G

Trot on with me father

Come onAm Bm come GonAm Bm

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Interlude

G--F--Am--F♯-- x2

Bridge

G This landF needs tiling

Am Come on and F♯help out

G The piFrate swine

Am We'll bluff and F♯cop out

G ohF yeah!!!

Am Your worlds just burn out

Chorus 2

C You and I have been around

Beaten up run out of town

Don't sayG "God's planned

the Amworld we live Bmin

G Take what you can Amget" it's Bmwritten

C Tragic comic repartee

This schlep has

had it's day I say

G Get by or Amyou're a Bmgoner

G Hands on and Amwe'll get Bmstronger

G Get by or Amyou're a Bmgoner

G Hands on and Amwe'll get Bmstronger

Guitar solo

G--A♯-F--Em-D♯-D-D♯--F--A♯-Am-G- x2

Outro

G Oh The waA♯terF has sEmpat D♯us Dout

D♯ FCoast is A♯clearAm G aGgain

Hush up A♯nowF

And Emdon't D♯get DboredD♯

Work Fa-A♯way

We're Amon the Gmend