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We Built This City On Rock & Roll Chords

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[Verse 1]
[G]We built this city
We [D]built this city on rock [Em]and r[G]oll
Built this city
We [D]built this city on rock and [G]roll

[Interlude 1]
[D][G][F#m]
[Em][D][G][A][D][G][F#m][Em][D][G][A][D]

[Verse 2]
[D]Say you don't know me or
recognize [Dsus4]my face[D]
[Dsus4]Say you don't care who[D]
goes to that kind of place
Knee- deep in the hoopla, sinking
in your [Dsus4]fight[D][Dsus4]
[C]Too man[Dsus4]y runaway[D]s[A]
[D]eating up the nig[A]ht

[Verse 3]
Mar[Bm]coni plays the mamba
[A]Listen to the radio
Don't you re[D]member[G]?
We [D]built this [G]city[F#m][Em]
We [D]built this [G]city on [D]rock [A]an d [Bm]roll

[Verse 4]
We [G]built this city
We [D]built this city on rock [Em]an d roll
[G]Built this city
We [D]built this city on [A]rock [D]an d [G]roll
[D][G][Em][D][G]

[Verse 5]
[A][D]
Someone always playing
corporation [Dsus4]games
[C]Who cares, they're always chan
[D]ging corporation names
We just want to dance here,
someone stole [Dsus4]the stage
[C]They call us irr[D]esponsible,
write us off [A]the page

[Verse 6]
Mar[Bm]coni plays the mam[G]ba
[Bm]List[D]en to th[A]e radio
Don't you re[D]member[G]?
We [D]built this [G]city[Em]
We [D]built this [G]city on [D]rock [A]an d [Bm]roll

[Verse 7]
We [G]built this city
We [D]built this city on rock [Em]an d roll
[G]Built this city
We [D]built this city on [A]rock
[D]an d [G]roll
[A][G]

[Verse 8]
[A]
It's just another [D]Sunday[F#m][G][A]
In [F#m]a tired [D]old [F#m]street[G][D]
[A]Police have got[F#m] the[G][D][F#m][G][D][A]
[F#m]chokeh[G]old[D] (oh)
Then [G]we just [A]lost [D]the beat
Who counts the money
underneath [Dsus4]the bar?
[C]Who writes the [Dsus4]wrecking
[D]ball into our guitars?
Don't tell us you need us 'cause we're
the [Dsus4]ship of fool[D]s[Dsus4][D]
[C]Looking for [D]America,
coming through [A]your schools

[Verse 9]
[Bm](I'm looking out over that
Golden Gate bridge)
(On another [G]gorgeous sunny
Saturday)
(And I'm seein' [D]that bumper
to [A]bumper traffic)
Don't you [D]re [G]member [D](re
[G]member), 'member ('member)
(It's your favorite radio station in your
[Em]fa vorite ra[D]dio city)
(The city by [G]the bay, the city that rocks,
the city that nev[D]er sleeps)

[Verse 10]
[Bm]Marconi plays the mamba
[G]Lis[Bm]ten t[A]o the [D]radio[A]
Don't you re[D]member[G]?
We [D]built this [G]city[Em]
We [D]built this [G]city on [D]rock [A]an d [Bm]roll

[Verse 11]
We [G]built this city
We [D]built this city on rock [Em]an d ro[G]ll
Built this city
We [D]built this city on [A]rock [Em]an d [D]roll
[G]Built this city (ooh, ooh)
We [D]built this city on rock [Em]an d ro[G]ll
Built this city
We [D]built this city on [A]rock [D]an d [G]roll

[Verse 12]
[G]
We built, we built this city, yeah
(Built this city) we built, we built this city
We built, we built this city,
yeah
(Built this city) we built,
we built this city
We built, we built this city,
yeah
(Built this city) we built, we built this city
We built, we built this city,
[G]yeah
(Built this city) we built, we built this city
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