The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic Chords

The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic Chords

              Dm               C
     Banana republic,  Septic Isle
                         Dm                         C
     Screamin' in the sufferin' sea,  Sounds like, Cry, Cry, Cry
                  Dm                        C
     Everywhere I go,  Yeah,  Everywhere I see
                           Dm      G
     The black and blue uniforms,      Police and priests

                          Dm                                         C
     And I wonder do you wonder,   While you're sleeping with your whore
                         Dm                                  C
     Sharing beds with history,  Is like a-licking running sores
                       Dm                          C
     Forty shades of green yeah,   Sixty shades o'red
                   Dm               G
     Heroes going cheap these days,    Price a bullet in the head

               Dm              C
     Banana republic,  Septic Isle
                      Dm                         C
     Suffer in the screamin' sea,  Sounds like, Die, Die, Die
                  Dm                        C
     Everywhere I go,  Yeah,  Everywhere I see
                           Dm      G
     The black and blue uniforms,      Police and priests

                         Dm                      C
     Take your hand and lead ya,  Up the garden path
                   Dm                        C
     Let me stand aside here,  And watch ya pass
                        Dm                         C
     Strikin' up The Soldiers Song,   I know that tune
                         Dm      G
     It begs too many questions,      And answers too

              Dm               C
     Banana republic,  Septic Isle
                      Dm                         C
     Suffer in the screamin' sea,  Sounds like, Die, Die, Die
                  Dm                        C
     Everywhere I go,  Yeah,  Everywhere I see
                           Dm      G
     The black and blue uniforms,      Police and priests

                           Dm                                  C
     The purple and the pinstripe,   They mutely shake their heads
                           Dm                                  C
     A silence shriekin' volumes,  Violence worse than they condemn
                    Dm                              C
     Stab ya in the back,  Yeah,  Laughing in your face
                      Dm          G
     Glad to see the place again,    It's a pity nothings changed

              Dm               C
     Banana republic,  Septic Isle
                      Dm                         C
     Suffer in the screamin' sea,  Sounds like, Die, Die, Die
                  Dm                        C
     Everywhere I go,  Yeah,  Everywhere I see
                           Dm      G
     The black and blue uniforms,      Police and priests