99 Red Balloons Uke tab by Nena

4 Chords used in the song: G, Am, C, D7

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Year:  1984
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2.25
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Key: G, EmChords and Tablature
# 99 Red Balloons

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
You and I and a little toy shop, buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Set them free at the break of dawn, ‘til one by one, they were gone.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Back at base, bugs in the software flash the message, "Something's out there."
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7 (G chordG)
Floating in the summer sky, ninety-nine red balloons go by.

A|-------------0-2-0-----------------------------]
E|-3--3-0-3--3-------3--0--3--3-0-3--0-----------]
C|-------------------------------------2-2-2-2---]
G|-----------------------------------------------]

A|-------------0-2-0-----------------------2-2-2---]
E|-3--3-0-3--3-------3--0--3--3-0-3--0-----3-3-3---]
C|-------------------------------------2-2-2-2-2---]
G|-----------------------------------------------]

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Ninety-nine red balloons, floating in the summer sky.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Panic lads, it's a red alert, there's something here from somewhere else.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
The war machine springs to life, opens up one eager eye.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Focusing it on the sky, ninety-nine red balloons go by. G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Ninety-nine Decision Street, ninety-nine ministers meet.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
To worry, worry, super-scurry, call the troops out in a hurry.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
This is what we've waiting for, this is it boys, this is war.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
The president is on the line as ninety-nine red balloons go by. G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Ninety-nine knights of the air, riding super-high-tech jet fighters.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Everyone's a super hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
With orders to identify, to clarify and classify.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG Am chordAm
Scrambling in the summer sky, as ninety-nine red balloons go by.

C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG Am chordAm
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.
C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Ninety-nine dreams I have had, every one a red balloon.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty, in this dust that was a city.
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
If I could find a souvenir, just to prove the world was here...
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Yes here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go. G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7

G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7
Ninety-nine red balloons Ninety-nine red balloons
G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG Am chordAm
Ninety-nine red balloons Ninety-nine red balloons go by
C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG Am chordAm C chordC D7 chordD7 G chordG
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

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for the Sleeping at Last version, replace D7 with D and skip the verse
28 Jun 2019
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