Standard (EADGBE)

Intro/ Vs-

You and I in a little toy shop,

buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got

Set them free at the break of dawn,

till one by one they were gone

Back at base, faxing the software,

flash the message something’s out there

Floating in the summer sky,

99 red balloons go by

Bass intro

99 red balloons floating in the summer sky

Panic bell, its red alert there’s something here from somewhere else

The war machine springs to life, opens up one’s eager eyes

Focusing in on the sky, 99 red balloons go by…

99 decisions free, 99 may misters me

To worry worry super surrey, call the troops out in a hurry

This is what we’ve waited for, this is it boys this war

The president is on the line, cause 99 red balloons go by

99 lights up the air, with super high tech jet fighters

Everyone’s a superhero, everyone’s with captain Kirk

With orders to identify, to clarify and classify

There’s a tremble in the summer’s sky, 99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons go by…

99 dreams I have heard, and everyone a red balloon

It’s all over and I’m standing pretty, in this dusted worldless city

If I can find a souvenir, just to prove the world was here

And here is a red balloon, I’ll think of you and let it go ~fade out~