C                                 G
We had our heart strings dangling ripe for the yanking
    F
And lot of reasons grabby was good
C                           G
Poor huddled masses singing boots up their asses
       F
Giving grabby what he needed to pull
C                         G
All the way back to where ghosts from the past were still
F
Fighting their wars from the grave
C                                G
Complete with record burning and threatening and spurning
    F
The crime of getting blood on the page

C  G  F x2

[Verse 2]

C                                 G
Since the big one ended we'd been mostly pretending
          F 
We'd have had the same gumption and grit
       C                      G
As the greatest among us when harm came upon us
F
We wouldn't hesitate to defend
C                               G
But with or against something's been out to get us
       F
And it looked like something finally did
   C                   G
No nobler cause in our lifetime for setting our 
F
Sails to the wind

[Chorus]

G                                                                  F
But once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been
C                           G                                  F
Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids
G                                                                  F
But once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been
C                           G                                  F
Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids

[Bridge]

Am F C x2

[Bridge Verse]

        Am                           F                                              
Are you now or have you ever been in cahoots
         C                      Bb
With the notion that people can change
     Am               G                      
When history happens again if you do 
       F
Or you did you'll be blamed
Am                       F
From baseless inquiry to no knocking entry
   C                     Bb
Becoming the law of the land
   Am                       G
To half cocked excuses for bullet abuse 
          F
Regarding anything browner than tan

[Chorus]

G                                                                    F
Cause once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been
C                           G                                  F
Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids
G                                                                    F
Cause once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been
C                           G                                  F
Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids