FOR ASKING
(Kitson/Kitson)
Transcribed by Phil Gardner
E C#m A B
The weekend, the morning, the sound of, journalists under fire,
E C#m A
On the hour, every hour, in the places where,
B
Hopes and bodies burn to nothing,
E C#m A B
And I can argue, I can be against the men who run my country,
E C#m A B
And I won't be shot by a boy my own age, just the same as me.
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Tiananmen they died for asking,
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Tiananmen they died for asking.
E C#m A B
Millions waiting, millions waiting to be heard,
E C#m A B
Peaceful persuasions, millions with nothing but angry words,
E C#m A B
Dying to argue with them, dying to argue with them,
E C#m
Dying to argue with them,
A B
Dying to argue, but all they could do was thank the troops.
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Tiananmen they died for asking,
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Tiananmen they died for asking.
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They died for asking.
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Tiananmen they died for asking,
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Sharpville they died for asking.
E C#m A B
And it's all they were asking, in Santiago they died for asking,
Etc...