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From: Scott A. Yanoff <yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>


IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)

 G                               C
> That's great it starts with an earthquake
                          G
> Birds and snakes and aeroplanes
                       C
> Lenny Bruce is not afraid
  G              
> Eye of a hurricane listen to yourself churn
  C
> World serves its own needs dummy serve your own needs
  G
> Speed it up a notch speed grunt nose street burn
      C
> The ladder starts to clatter with dinner fight down height
  Bb
> Wire in a fire room represent the southern gangs
          A
> In a government for hire and a combat site

{same as before}
> Lefty wasn't coming in a hurry
> With the furies breathing down your neck
> Team by team reporters grapple trunk tethered crop
> Look at that low plane fine then
> Uh oh overflow population cornered
> But it'll do save yourself serve yourself
> World serves its own needs listen to your heartbeat
> Tell me that the reds are in the reverend in the right right?
> You patriotic patriotic slam fight right might feeling pretty psyched
> 
           G            D          Am
> It's the end of the world as we know it 
           G            D          Am
> It's the end of the world as we know it
           G            D          Am                  C     C/B  
> It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
> 
> Six o'clock TV hour don't get caught foreign tower
> Slice and burn return listen to yourself churn lock him in uniform
> And book-burning blood-letting every motive escalate
> Automotive incinerate light a candle light a motive
> Step down step down watching heel crush crush
> Uh oh this means no fear cavalier renegade steer clear
> A tournament a tournament a tournament of lies
> Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline
> 
> It's the end of the world as we know it
> (It's time I had some time alone)
> It's the end of the world as we know it
> (It's time I had some time alone)
> It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

   G      C       G       C      G      F
  I feel fine    I feel  fine       
> 
> The other night I drifted nice continental trip to find
> Mount Saint Edelite Leonard Bernstein
> Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
> Birthday party cheesecake jellybeans boom
> You symbiotic patriotic slam foot neck right right