Intro: Am C G

      Am
Would Dylan be just a poet?
      C                                G
Would Bono ever know it, without those songs?  Mmmm
      Am
Would Marley be just a stoner?
       C                                   G
Johnny Cash just be a loner, without those songs?  Mmmm
            Am
Would Buddy Holly have disappeared?
         C                                   G           C
Or would Lennon still be here, without those songs? Yea-ah

                       Am
What happened in their lives?
                       Em
What happened in their hearts?
                             G
To make them wanna write the words
                           C
But gonna tear this world apart
                    Am
The beauty of their lives
                         Em
Is when they're dead and gone
                       G
The world still sings along
                   Am
When anything went right
                   C
When anything went wrong
                 G
They put it in a song

      Am
Would Elvis be just a look
       C                                     G
Or the Rolling Stones mistook, without those songs? Mmmm
        Am
Would Sinatra be just a gangster
         C                                       G
Or would Jackson be just a dancer, without those songs? Yea-ah
        Am
Would Madonna be just a face?
      C                                  G             C
Or Nirvana be just a place without those songs? Yea-ah

                       Am
What happened in their lives?
                       Em
What happened in their hearts?
                             G
To make them wanna write the words
                               C
They're gonna tear this world apart
                    Am
The beauty of their lives
                         Em
Is when they're dead and gone
                       G
The world still sings along
                   Am
When anything went right
                   C
When anything went wrong
                 G
They put it in a song,  yea-ah

Em C Bm D
Oooooh, oooo 
Em C Bm D
Oooooh, oooh 

                   Am
When anything went right
                   C
When anything went wrong
                 G
They put it in a song

                    Am
Oh who would make a scene
                       C
And where would we all be
              G
Without those songs
                   G
Without those songs