Benito always wanting more                            G D G

Hung his face on every door                             e D G

War is peace and peace is war                         e D Cadd9

(But his trains would run on time)                   A7 [em opt.] D

 

Choke the courts and own the news

Fraud is fair and bribes are dues

Dispose of those who might refuse

But the trains would run, the trains would run

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     The trains will run on time,                            G (with hammer-on/off C) 

     The trains will run on time                             G e

     It’s a tragedy, it’s a crime                                 D7sus4 D7 C

     But the trains will run on time                       C D G

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Bennie’s black was Adolf’s brown     <= This is wrong in audio file and will be corrected.

Vanished folks from every town

Do anything to wear that crown

(Life might come undone, but the trains would run)

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Lackeys blithely did his deeds

Building monuments to greed

Allies were just there to bleed

But the trains would run, the trains would run

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     REFRAIN

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To Joseph, laws were whips to bear

Drilled the Earth and fouled the air

Played history like Solitaire

(Just a nasty son of a . . . trains would run)

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Cruelty that’s by design

Art must toe the party line

Fear and favor intertwine

But the trains would run, the trains would run

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     REFRAIN

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Ol’ Saddam had girls and wives         

His cronies all lived gilded lives

Elections at the points of knives

(Take your food for guns, but the trains will run)

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Bully, threaten and punch down

Compassion means you’re just a clown

Camps for those who made him frown

But the trains . . . the trains . . .

 

REFRAIN

 

Yes this is how the end begins

Kill off rights men died to win

What is not a lie, is spin

But those trains will run

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Now the saddest scary thing to do

Mix up the names and sing it through

Or use “Donald”and it’s all still true—

Try it and you’ll see it, too!

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     The trains will run on time,

     And history will rhyme

     It’s a tragedy, it’s a crime

     But the trains will run on time

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     It’s a tragedy, it’s a crime

     But the trains will run on time