Holy Wars The Punishment Due chords by Megadeth

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🤘 Verse 1:
Em                 D
Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
A                C
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
Em                  D
Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands



A                    C
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?
 Em           D
A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
  A               C
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand
  Em                  D
The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
A              C
Don't look now to Israel
It might be your homelands
Em
Holy wars

🤘 Verse 2:
Em                     D
Upon my podium, as the Know it all scholar
Em                             D
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Em                            D
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my
Em                       D   Em
Pulpit as the holier
Than-thou, could-be-messenger of God

🤘 Interlude:
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🤘 Verse 3:
Em       D
Wage the war on organized crime
A               C         D
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Em                D
  Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
A          C   D
 Either way they die. They die

🤘 Solo:
G Bb G Bb G Bb G F#m F Em

🤘 Interlude:
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🤘 Verse 4:
   Em             D
They killed my wife and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
A         C  D
 First mistake  last mistake
Em          D
Paid by the alliance
to slay all the giants
A        C    D
 Next mistake  no more mistakes!

🤘 Solo:
G Bb G Bb G Bb G F#m F Em

🤘 Verse 5:
Em            D
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
 A              C
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't Thinkin' it
Em                       D
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
 A              C
I know what I said, now I must  scream
    Em  D
of the ov-er-dose
    A       C
And the lack of mercy killers
   Em       D
Mercy killings, mercy killers
    A
Killers killers killers
C              D         Em
Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away.