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Song: Six O' Clock News
Artist: Grammatrain
By: Larry Norman
(Grammatrain performed this as part of the Larry Norman tribute album)
Song is in dropped D-tuning, both the bass and the guitar.
E D E D E D G Gb
G--------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------
D-2--0--2--2--0--2--2--2--2--0--5--4---
I got a ticket for southeast Asia
Packed my camera and press car badge
They only paid me to stay the weekend
What if I never come back?
The flight was pretty rough
I gotta room, took a sauna
The bell boy come put my bags on the bed
He left without his tip
Then I loaded up my camera bag full of film
And I stepped outside
Taking pictures of burning houses
filming movies of misery


Bridge: (with distortion, using power chords)
E5 F5 G5 A5
I see the flash of guns How red the mud becomes gotta close up view


Chorus: (continued distortion)
A5 E5 A5
I’m the six o’clock news what can I do?
A5 E5 A5
All those kids with no shoes what can I do?
A5 E5 A5
Military coos what can I do?
A5 Riff 1 (2x)
I’m just the six o’clock
Riff 1 (for bass, followed along by distorted power chords on guitar)
B5 A5 G5 E5 G5 A5 G5 A5
G--------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------
A--2--2--2--2--0--0-----------------0--
D--------------------5--2--5--7--5-----
I got it sweet at the Saigon Hilton
Cocktail parties with free marquis
We talk about how the war is going
And watch the color t.v.


Chorus:
A5 E5 A5
I’m the six o’clock news what can I do?
A5 E5 A5
Napalm tattoos what can I do?
A5 E5 A5
Red and white and true blue what can I do?
A5 Riff 1 (4x)
I am the six o’clock
Catch my plane flight back to the mainland
Fall asleep to the engines drone


Bridge: (once)


Chorus: (twice through w/ changes in lyrics, only play Riff 1 4x at
end)


End:
E5 E5 E5 E5
CBS ABC NBC CBS ABC NBC CBS ABC NBC CBS ABC NBC (repeated many times)
Submitted by: Josh Lindamood