Chords for Edwin Starr - War (June 1970)

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_ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
What is [D#m] it good [F#] for?
Absolutely nothing! _
_ [D#m] What [F#] _ _ _ [D#m] _
is it good [F#] for?
Absolutely nothing! _ _
[D#m] What [F#] _ _ _ [D#m] _ is it good for?
[F#] Absolutely nothing!
what?
[D#] _ _ I'm inspired
[F#] Cause [D#m] it means distortion of innocent life
What means death
If I was a mother that
When their son go off to fight
And lose their life
I said what!
[F#] GOOD
[B] Good G-d y [F#]'all
What [D#m] is it good for?
[F#] Absolutely nothing!
Say it again _ [D#m] What!
[F#] _ _ _ What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Listen to me!
[D#m] What?
It [F#] ain't nothing [D#] but [Bm] break!
[F#] _
[D#m] What?
[F#] It brings only [B] to the undertaker!
[F#]
[D#] Ah, what?
It's an enemy to all [F#] mankind!
[D#m] _ The thought of war blows the family! _
War has caught them red,
prisoning younger generations!
_ Induction, indestruction, who wants to die? _
Ah, war!
[F#] Good God, [D#m] yaw! _
What is it good [F#] for?
Absolutely [B] nothing!
[F#] Say it, say it!
[D#m] It's war!
[F#] Oh, yeah!
_ What [D#m] is it good for?
[F#] Absolutely nothing!
Listen to me!
_ [D#m] What?
[F#] It ain't nothing but break! _
[D#m] What?
[F#] It brings only to the undertaker! _
[D#] It _ [D#m] shatters many a young man's dreams,
making him more bitter and mean!
Life is but too short and precious
to spend fighting wars each day!
War can't give life, it can only_
_ _ _ [F#] _ [D#m] Good God, yaw!
What is it good [F#] for?
Absolutely nothing!
Say it again!
[D#m] It's war!
[F#] Oh, Lord!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Listen to me!
[D#m] What?
[F#] It ain't nothing [E] [F#] but break!
What?
It brings only [B] to the undertaker! _
[F#] _ [D#m] _ Peace from an _ undemanding element
gives us no place for the enemy! _ _
They say we must fight to keep our freedom,
but Lord knows there's got to be a better way!
Oh, _ Lord!
[F#m] Good God, yaw!
[D#m] _
What is it good [F#] for?
You tell me!
Say it, say it, say it!
Say [D#m] it!
What?
[F#] Good God! _
What is [D#m] it good [F#] for? _ _ _