Save The Population Chords

KeyGm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays451

Save The Population by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Gm. It uses the chords Gm, Bb, D, Ab, Cm, D7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Gm
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1. 
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
  
  
Gm             Bb             D 
Sing another drinking song the honky tonk will do  
Gm             Bb             D 
Make another breaking bomb your favorite ingénue  
Gm      Bb      D 
This the distant dawn  
Gm      Bb      D 
This the distant dawn  
  
  
Pre-Chorus 
  
Gm 
I put my cards up on the table  
Bb 
I do this speak cause I am able  
Gm 
One pixie's broken down devotion  
Bb 
I threw my pistol in the ocean  
Ab 
Eyes wide with revelation  
Cm 
Shine at the police station  
D7 
And when the verdict comes round 
D7  
I'm sure that you will go down  
  
  
Chorus 
  
Bb                     F       Gm 
Stay all night, we'll save the population... (4x) 
  
2. 
Gm      Bb      D 
Pistol and its pawn  
Gm      Bb      D 
Sail it through the lexicon  
Gm      Bb      D 
Pistol and its pawn  
Gm      Bb      D 
Blood and borderlines be drawn  
  
Gm             Bb             D 
Take another bottle down the brothel and the shrew  
Gm             Bb             D 
Make another awful sound, a rather gothic brew  
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
Gm      Bb      D 
History's so strong  
  
  
Pre-Chorus 
  
Gm 
I put my cards up on the table  
Bb 
I do this speak cause I am able  
Gm 
One pixie's broken down devotion  
Bb 
I threw my pistol in the ocean  
Ab 
Eyes wide with revelation  
Cm 
Shine at the police station  
D7 
And when the verdict comes round 
D7  
I'm sure that you will go down  
  
Chorus 
  
Bb                     F       Gm 
Stay all night, we'll save the population... (4x) 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante