SAVE THE WORLD (George Harrison)
From the album "Somewhere in England", 1981

Transcripted by Danilo Fiani (danilofiani@hotmail.com)


Fm7(b5) (aka Fdim)
 X X 3 4 3 4

F#m7(b5) (aka F#dim)
 X X 4 5 4 5

Cmaj7
0 3 2 0 0 0

Co
X 3 4 2 4 X

F/C
X 3 3 2 1 1



Intro:


(1st slide guitar)

   C            Co            Fm7(b5)   G

E--------------------
B---------------------
G--5s8--8-10s12-13---13-12-10-9--------




Chorus :

              G7        C     Cmaj7
We've got to save the world

Bb      D7               F#m7(b5)   G
Someone else may want to use it
Bb                A7
    So far we've seen
         Dm
This planet's rape,
             G#7     G
 how we've abused it
              G7
We've got to save the world

Interlude
[C   Co   Fm7(b5)]


C                      G
The Russians have the biggest share
C                        G
  With their long fingers everywhere
F 			   A7
  And now they've bombs in outer space
F                       Fm          C   |Co  Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
  With laser beams and atomic waste
C				G
 Rain forest chopped for paper towels
C		   G
 One acre gone in every hour*
F                       A7
 Our birds and wildlife all destroyed
F                   Fm          [C     Co   F/C    G]
 To keep some millionaires employed    (different interlude)


             G7          C     Cmaj7
We've got to save the whale
Bb                  D         F#m7(b5)  G
Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse    it
Bb                A7
   But dog food salesmen
    Dm                   G#7  G
Persist on kindly to harpoon it
              G7
We've got to save the world

[C     Co   F/C]

C                  G
  The armament consortium
C                        G
  They're selling us plutonium
F                      A7
  Now you can make your own H-bomb
F                      Fm         C   |Co  Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
  Right in the kitchen with your mom

C                        G
 The nuclear power that costs you more
C                       G
 Than anything you've known before
F                      A7
 The half-wit's answer to a need
F                      Fm            C   |Co  Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
 For cancer, death, destruction, greed

[SOLO: repeat the verses above chords]

[Repeat the intro]

	      G7	C     Cmaj7
We've got to save the world
Bb          D                F#m7(b5)   G
Someone's children they may need it
Bb              A7
  So far we've seen
    Dm                  G#7           G
The big business of extinction bleed it
               G7          C     Co    F
We've got to save the world


C		    G
 We're at the mercy of so few
C                    G
 With evil hearts determined to
F                   A7
 Reduce this planet into hell
F                      Fm            C   |Co  Fm7(b5)| (fast passage)
 Then find a buyer and make quick sale

C                  G
 To end upon a happy note
C                    G
 Like trying to make concrete float
F                 A7
 Is very simple knowing that
F                      Fm    C   Co    F
 God in your heart lives

G                G7          C   Cmaj7
   We've got to save the world
Bb        D              F#m7(b5)  G
Someone else may want to use      it
Bb               A7
  It's time you knew
      Dm
How close we've come
             G#7  G             G7
We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save
                     C    Co  Fm7(b5)  C
We gotta save the world.


Comments:

1) The slide guitar interludes vary. I've transcripted one from the
introduction (there are two, making a dobro) just in case of identifying
the main melody.

2) I really dislike this song. It has a quite bizarre chords sequency that
doesn't make a beautiful result. And the lyrics are very poor, not to
mention the "Russians" part, that reveals a very shallow knowledge about the facts
or, at least, a kind of ingenuity from my (our) favorite songwriter/musician.
I'm the biggest George Harrison fan in the world, for sure... but this song, along
with only 2 or 3 other songs from his entire career, is unpassable.

3) Why had I spent my time transcripting it? Well, "a friend came to me, and told
me that he wanted help"... so it was worthwile.