Save The World Chords & Tabs
SAVE THE WORLD (George Harrison)
From the album "Somewhere in England", 1981
Transcripted by Danilo Fiani (danilofiani@hotmail.com)
Fm7(b5) (aka Fdim)
X X 3 4 3 4
F#m7(b5) (aka F#dim)
X X 4 5 4 5
Cmaj7
0 3 2 0 0 0
Co
X 3 4 2 4 X
F/C
X 3 3 2 1 1
Intro:
(1st slide guitar)
C Co Fm7(b5) G
E--------------------
B---------------------
G--5s8--8-10s12-13---13-12-10-9--------
Chorus :
G7 C Cmaj7
We've got to save the world
Bb D7 F#m7(b5) G
Someone else may want to use it
Bb A7
So far we've seen
Dm
This planet's rape,
G#7 G
how we've abused it
G7
We've got to save the world
Interlude
[C Co Fm7(b5)]
C G
The Russians have the biggest share
C G
With their long fingers everywhere
F A7
And now they've bombs in outer space
F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
With laser beams and atomic waste
C G
Rain forest chopped for paper towels
C G
One acre gone in every hour*
F A7
Our birds and wildlife all destroyed
F Fm [C Co F/C G]
To keep some millionaires employed (different interlude)
G7 C Cmaj7
We've got to save the whale
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse it
Bb A7
But dog food salesmen
Dm G#7 G
Persist on kindly to harpoon it
G7
We've got to save the world
[C Co F/C]
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/george_harrison/save_the_world_crd.html ]
C G
The armament consortium
C G
They're selling us plutonium
F A7
Now you can make your own H-bomb
F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
Right in the kitchen with your mom
C G
The nuclear power that costs you more
C G
Than anything you've known before
F A7
The half-wit's answer to a need
F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
For cancer, death, destruction, greed
[SOLO: repeat the verses above chords]
[Repeat the intro]
G7 C Cmaj7
We've got to save the world
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Someone's children they may need it
Bb A7
So far we've seen
Dm G#7 G
The big business of extinction bleed it
G7 C Co F
We've got to save the world
C G
We're at the mercy of so few
C G
With evil hearts determined to
F A7
Reduce this planet into hell
F Fm C |Co Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
Then find a buyer and make quick sale
C G
To end upon a happy note
C G
Like trying to make concrete float
F A7
Is very simple knowing that
F Fm C Co F
God in your heart lives
G G7 C Cmaj7
We've got to save the world
Bb D F#m7(b5) G
Someone else may want to use it
Bb A7
It's time you knew
Dm
How close we've come
G#7 G G7
We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save
C Co Fm7(b5) C
We gotta save the world.
Comments:
1) The slide guitar interludes vary. I've transcripted one from the
introduction (there are two, making a dobro) just in case of identifying
the main melody.
2) I really dislike this song. It has a quite bizarre chords sequency that
doesn't make a beautiful result. And the lyrics are very poor, not to
mention the "Russians" part, that reveals a very shallow knowledge about the facts
or, at least, a kind of ingenuity from my (our) favorite songwriter/musician.
I'm the biggest George Harrison fan in the world, for sure... but this song, along
with only 2 or 3 other songs from his entire career, is unpassable.
3) Why had I spent my time transcripting it? Well, "a friend came to me, and told
me that he wanted help"... so it was worthwile.
