The Police

The Police - When The World Is Running Down guitar tab

Subject: CRD: When the World Is Running Down

Keywords: chords

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 20:12:28 GMT

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WHEN THE WORLD IS RUNNING DOWN (YOU MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT'S STILL AROUND)

Original music by: Sting

Performance by: The Police

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CHORDS:

C9sus D9 sus Emin7(add11)

333333 555555 777787

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C9sus D9sus

/ / / / | / / / /

1. Turn on my VCR Same one I had for years

2. Turn on the radio The static hurts my ears

3. Plug in my MCI To exercise my brain

4. When I feel lonely here Don't waste my time with tears

Emin7(add11)

/ / / / | / / / /

James Brown on the TAMI show Same tape I've had for years

Tell me where I would go I Ain't been out for years

Make records on my own Can't go out in the rain

I run _DEEP_THROAT_ again it ran and ran for years

C9sus D9sus

/ / / / | / / / /

I sit in my old car same one I've had for years

Turn on the stereo It's played for years and years

Pick up the telephone I've listened here for years

Don't like the food I eat the cans are running out

Emin7(add11)

/ / / / | / / / /

Old battery's running down It ran and ran for years

An Otis Redding song It's all I own (WHEN THE)

No one to talk to me I've listened here for years (WHEN THE)

Same food for years and years I hate the food I eat (WHEN THE)

CHORUS (Repeat)

C9sus D9sus

/ / / / | / / / /

The World is running down you make

Emin7(add11)

/ / / / | / / / /

The best of whats still around---- when the

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Performance notes:

Verse 1

Verse 2

Chorus

Verse 3

Chorus

Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)

Verse (BASS INSTRUMENTAL)

Verse 4

Chorus

Chorus

Verse 1 (FADE OUT)

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G.K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

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