Search and Destroy Chords

KeyC#m CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays432

Search and Destroy by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C#m. It uses the chords C#m, A, F#, E, G# and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C#m
Text
16
Speed
  			C#m                                                     A          C#m   F# 
I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm  
            C#m                    A           C#m     F# 
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb  
C#m                            F# 
I am a world's forgotten boy  
C#m                                     A       F# 
The one who searches and destroys  
 
F#                            A 
Honey gotta help me please  
                                      E 
Somebody gotta save my soul  
                            G# 
Baby detonate for me  
 
C#m                                 A               C#m      F# 
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology  
C#m                   A                C#m   F# 
Ain't got time to make no apology  
C#m                        F# 
Soul radiation in the dead of night  
C#m                           A           F# 
Love in the middle of a fire fight  
 
F#                               A 
Honey gotta strike me blind  
                                       E 
Somebody gotta save my soul  
                             G#  C#m 
Baby penerate my mind  
 
                    B           A         B     C#m 
And I'm the world's forgotten boy  
              B                       A               B 
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy  
           B                 A                      B       C#m 
And honey I'm the world's forgotten boyt  
       B                   A                          B 
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy  
 
C#m         A     C#m      F# 
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy  
C#m          A           E              B         C#m 
Forgotten boy said hey forgotten boy  
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante