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We Are The Champions

Freddie Mercury

#From: ajchoutm@cs.ruu.nl (Arjan Houtman)
I've paid my_   Cm dues,__________
Cm11              time af-ter time Cm ,______________
Cm11                I've done my__ Cm _ sen-tence,
Cm11       but com-mit-ted no__    Cm crime._________
Cm11                 And bad mis-  Eb takes,
Abadd9/Eb             I've made a few,_ Eb ___________
Abadd9/Eb                I've had my_ s Eb hare of sand  Bb/D kicked in my_
Cm7/G face,        but I F 've come___ Bb _   through.
(And I need to go
Bb11 on      and Bbm9dim5  on      and       Bb9 on       and    C7 on.)
F We__________      are the     Am cham-   pions      my
Dm friends,________              Bb                C            and
F we'll_________     keep on    Am figh- ting__     till   the
Bb end.__________ F#dim D7b9/F#
Gm7 We         are         the    C7/G cham-       pions,
Bbm6 We         are         the    C13b9/E cham-        Edim/G pions,
F no____    time       for      Ebadd9/G los-  ers,          'cause
Ab6 we         are         the    Bb cham-       pions
Cm11                   of the worl Fm d.___________________________
Gm7/F _____________________________ Fm __
Gm7/F                               Fm
Gm7/F             I've ta-ken my__  Cm bows,
Cm11       and my__ cur-tain calls Cm ,_
Cm11               you brought me  Cm fame and for-tune and ev-'ry-thing
Cm11 that goes with it, I thank you  Cm all.
Cm11      But it's been no bed of  Eb ro-  ses,________
Abadd9/Eb                no plea-sure   Eb  cruise,______
Abadd9/Eb           I con-si-der it a   Eb chal-lenge be-fore Bb/D  the whole hu-man
Cm7/G race      and  F I ain't gon-na  Bb lose.________
(And I need to go
Bb11 on      and     Bbm9dim5   on    and    Bb9 on   and   C7 on.)
We_____
_ F _________________ are the     Am cham-     pions my
Dm friends,_______               Bb            C            and
F we'll____       keep on       Am fight-  ing____       till____
_ Bb _ the end.______ F#dim D7b9/F#
Gm7 We       are        the       C7/G cham-     pions,
Bbm6 we       are        the       C13b9/E cham-      Edim/G pions,
F no___     time      for       Ebadd9/G los-  ers,       'cause
Ab6 we       are        the       Bb cham-     pions
Cm11                        We____ F ____________   are     the
(of the world.___________)
Am cham-     pions__    my       Dm friends,______
Bb                C           and   F we'll_____      keep    on
Am fight-    ing___              Bb til the end.____
F#dim             A D7b9/F# h,               Gm7 we         are       the
(we         are       the
C7/G cham-     pions,              Bbm6 we         are       the
cham-     pions,             we         are       the
C13b9/E cham-      Edim/G pions,              F no____   time      for
cham-     pions,             ooh,__________________________
Ebadd9/G lo- sers,    'cause           Ab6 we         are       the
_________                    we         are       the
Bb cham-     pions. Cm11
cham-     pions.)
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