Tear The Fascists Down Chords

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Tear The Fascists Down by Woody Guthrie is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro 
C                                    F            C 
There's a great and a bloody fight 'round this whole world tonight 
          C                            G 
And the battle, the bombs and shrapnel rain 
        C                              F          C 
Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down 
G                                         C 
But our union's gonna break them slavery chains 
G                                         C 
Our union's gonna break them slavery chains 

verse 1 
C                                F               C 
I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky 
  C                            G 
Could see every farm and every town 
C                                  F            C 
I could see all the people in this whole wide world 
C                        G                 C 
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down 
C                        G                  C 
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down 
C                                F          C 
When I think of the men and the ships going down 
  C                                     G 
While the Russians fight on across the Don 
C                           F        C 
There's London in ruins and Paris in chains 
C                  G             C 
Good people, what are we waiting on? 
C                  G             C 
Good people, what are we waiting on? 

verse 2 
C                                F               C 
So, I thank the Soviets and the mighty Chinese vets 
    C                            G 
The Allies the whole wide world around 
       C                             F                    C 
To the battling British, thanks, you can have ten million Yanks 
C                  G                 C 
If it takes 'me to tear the fascists down, down, down 
C                  G                 C 
If it takes 'me to tear the fascists down But 
C                                F          C 
when I think of the ships and the men going down 
C                                     G 
And the Russians fight on across the Don 
        C                    F        C 
There's London in ruins and Paris in chains 
C                  G             C 
Good people, what are we waiting on? 
C                  G             C 
Good people, what are we waiting on? 

Outro 
C                              F                 C 
So I thank the Soviets and the mighty Chinese vets 
     C                            G 
The Allies the whole wide world around 
       C                                 F               C 
To the battling British, thanks, you can have ten million Yanks 
G                                         C 
If it takes 'me to tear the fascists down, down, down 
G                                         C 
If it takes 'me to tear the fascists down 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante