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For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield

Intro: / E - - - / A - - - / (x2)

VERSE 1:

E                                           A
There's something happening here
           E                    A
What it is ain't exactly clear
E                             A
There's a man with a gun over there
E                       A
Telling me I've got to beware

CHORUS:

E                  D
It's time we stop children what's that sound
A                                 C     

Everybody look what's going down      

/ E - - - / A - - - / (x2)

VERSE 2:

E                                    A
There's battle lines being drawn
                E                            A
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
E                                           A
Young people speaking their minds
                 E                             A
Are getting so much resistance from behind

Chorus

/ E - - - / A - - - / (x2)

VERSE 3:

E                                  A
What a field day for the heat
E                             A
Ten thousand people in the streets
            E                           A
Singing songs and carrying signs
            E                            A
Mostly say "hooray for our side"

Chorus

/ E - - - / A - - - / (x2)

Verse 4:

E                        A
Paranoia strikes deep
E                           A
Into your life it will creep
    E                                     A
It starts when you're always afraid
                  E                                A
Step out of line the man come and take you away

Chorus

/ E - - - / A - - - / (x2)

End

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This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.