Beer Drinking Song
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- Half-step bend
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- Two half-step bend
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- Three half-step bend
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Words in parenthesis without numbers above them are spoken parts.
(They’re gonna kill me for this)
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Ooooooh
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Why don't we all just get stoned,
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Get drunk and sing beer drinking songs.
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Between Brezhnev and Begin,
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Khomeini and Reagan,
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We might as well all just get stoooned.
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You can't even look at the T V these days,
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Without gettin' scared half to death.
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The eyewitness news leaves me used and abused,
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And I find myself gasping for breath.
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There's strikes and inflation,
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And strife between nations,
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The world's in a hell of a mess.
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No matter who's hurtin',
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There's one thing for certain,
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The whole world will blame the U.S.
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Ooooooh
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Why don't we all just get stoned, (get drunk)
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Get drunk and sing beer drinking songs.
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Between Brezhnev and Begin,
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Khomeini and Reagan,
4 5 5 5 -5 5 -4 4-454
We might as well all just get stoooned.
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The Russians don't like us,
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And we don't like them.
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The Israelis hate the Arabs.
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I-ran and I-raq are on each other's back,
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And El Salvador's still up for grabs.
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I wish they'd take Idi Amin and Khomeini
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And Khadafi and all of the rest,
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Tie'em all to a chair,
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And make'em stare at Yasser Arafat,
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‘Til he uglies the whole bunch to death.
6
Ooooooh
5 5 5 5 -4 4 4 6 5
Why don't we all just get stoned, (get drunk)
4 -5 -5 -5 -6 6 -5 5
Get drunk and sing beer drinking songs.
5 5 -5 -5 -5 -6 6
Between Brezhnev and Begin,
-5 5 -5 5 -4 4
Khomeini and Reagan,
4 5 5 5 -5 5 -4 4-454
We might as well all just get stoooned.
(What about cleaning up our own backyard)
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There's mass unemployment,
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And crime in the streets,
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Inflation gets worse everyday,
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They're taxin' us maximum,
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And Congress ain't ax-in'em.
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They take most my paycheck away.
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Now Social Security
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Has become an obscurity,
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Where the hell's all the money we paid?
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Lord, if the Commie's don't take us,
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Reaganomics will break us,
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We ain't got a chance either way.
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Ooooooh
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Why don't we all just get stoned, (get drunk)
4 -5 -5 -5 -6 6 -5 5
Get drunk and sing beer drinking songs.
5 5 -5 -5 -5 -6 6
Between Brezhnev and Begin,
-5 5 -5 5 -4 4
Khomeini and Reagan,
4 5 5 5 -5 5 -4 4-454
We might as well all just get stoooned.