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For What Its Worth

Buffalo Springfield
Chords & TabKeyEbeginner99 BPM
★4.8(4k)

Chords in this song5

Riff

  
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|   / = slide up
D|-------2-------------2-------|   \ = slide down
A|---2/4---4\2--0-2/4----4\2---|
E|-0---------------------------|

Intro

    

Verse 1

There's somethin' happenin' here.
What it is ain't exactly clear.
There's a man with a gun over there
A-tellin' me I've got to beware.

Chorus

I think it's time we stop.
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down.
    

Verse 2

There's battle lines bein' drawn.
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
Young people speakin' their minds
A-gettin' so much resistance from behind.

Chorus

It's time we stop.
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down.
    

Verse 3

What a field day for the heat. 
A thousand people in the street 
Singin' songs and a-carryin' signs
Mostly sayin' hooray for our side. 

Chorus

It's time we stop.
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down.
    

Verse 4

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

Chorus/Outro

You better stop.
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin'...
You better stop.
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin'...
You better stop.
Now, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin'...
You better stop.
Children, what's that sound? (fade out)
Everybody look what's goin'...

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