Burn Down The Mission

Intro: G A# G A#

 

G Em A#/C

You tell me there's an angel in your tree

D# G/D A/C# Dsus4

Did he say he'd come to call on me

G Em7 A#/C

For things are getting desperate in our home

C#dim7 G/D D C G/B Am7 G

Living in the parish of the restless folks I know

F C G

Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

F C G

Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

G/B C G

Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

C6/G A#/C

It's time we put the flame torch to their keep

C# G#

Burn down the mission

F#

If we're gonna stay alive

C# G#

Watch the black smoke fly to heaven

F#

See the red flame light the sky

D#/A# A#

Burn down the mission

G#

Burn it down to stay alive

D#/A# A#

It's our only chance of living

G# C# A#/C

Take all you need to live inside

 

F D#/F A# F D#/F A# F D#/F A#

F D# A#/D F/C A# }x2

G F C/E G/D }x2

A#/C C#/A A#m F/C F/A A#

 

G A# G A#

Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

My wife cried when they came to take me away

But what more could I do just to keep her warm

Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls