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Thread #56795   Message #3674011
Posted By: Jason Xion Wang
02-Nov-14 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: Greatest Anti-War Song Ever?
Subject: Chords Add: Business Goes on as Usual (Fred H.)
I'm gonna add one of my favorite anti-war songs to the list. Words by Fran Minkoff, music by Fred Hellerman of the Weavers, first sung in 1965 by Joe Frazier of the Chad Mitchell Trio on album "Violets of Dawn".


Business Goes on as Usual
(Fred Hellerman; Fran Minkoff)

Asus2    A7sus2    Asus2    A7sus2)


Asus2
Business goes on as usual -
                            G9
The corn and the profits are high.
       C Gsus4/B Am7    C    Gsus4/B Am
And the T-Vs      boom in every living room,
         FMaj7                      Em
And they tell us which deodorant to buy.


Asus2
Business goes on as usual,
                         G9
Except that my brother is dead.
       C   Gsus4/B Am7      C    Gsus4/B Am
He was twenty   -   five and very much   alive,
       FMaj7                                 Em
But the dreams have all been blasted from his head -


    Am G   Am          G
In a far-off land with a gun in his hand,
   F                   E       E7
He died in a war he did not understand!


    Am
And business goes on as usual -
                                  G9
There's plenty to choose from the rack.
       C Gsus4/B Am7       C      Gsus4/B Am
And the rumor    goes, the latest thing in clothes
FMaj7 Esus4
Will be...
Asus2
Black!


Am
Business goes on as usual...

Business goes on as usual...

Business goes on as usual...
                            Em G Am
Business goes on as usual...

As usual.

The chords above are based on John Denver's version - apparently he learnt it from Paul Prestopino.

I can't guarantee the chords are 100% accurate.

Jason