Verse Chorus Bridge
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E x7999x E x7999x A 57765x
B/D# x6987x B/D# x6987x E/G# 47645x
C#m x46654 C#m x46654 F#m 224422
G#m 466444 A 57765x E 022100
F#m 244222 E/G# 47645x
B x24442 F#m 224442
B x24442
Tune half-step down
(For standard tuning and open chord voicing, see the acoustic version)
[Verse 1]
E B/D# C#m
A boy and a girl, albatross around their necks
G#m F#m
Hands burning from the rope, ships stranded in the tropics
B E B/D# C#m
Acidification wiped out the tiger shark
G#m F#m
Let's try to save their souls, and trust the man with the Torah
[Chorus 1]
E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
A E/G# F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
B E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
A E/G# F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
[Verse 2]
E B/D# C#m
Breathe in the salt, slicing waves at forty knots
G#m F#m
Cumulonimbus in the sky, this is what we've waited for
E B/D#
And now there's no more hyperventilating in wheelchairs
B C#m
We're gonna save the last dog on Funk Islands
G#m F#m
We're had to do it wrong before we could do it right
[Chorus 2]
E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
A E/G# F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
B E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
A E/G# F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
[Bridge]
A E/G# F#m E
Pushing the stone up the hill and if it rolls back
A E/G# F#m E
Down, whoa, Sisyphus it rolls back down
A E/G# F#m E
Pushing the stone up the hill and if it rolls back
A E/G# F#m E
Down, whoa, Sisyphus it rolls back down
[Chorus 3]
E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail, like Darwin on the Beagle
A E/G# F#m
Or Mendel experimenting with a pea
B E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail (in our sail, our sail)
A E/G# F#m
And we can do so many great things together, together
E B/D# C#m
A E/G# F#m
[Outro]
E B/D# C#m
We got the wind in our sail (we got the wind in our sail)
A E/G# F#m E
