E You and I in a F#m little toy shop
Buy a A bag of balloons with the B money we got
E Set them free at the F#m break of dawn
Till A one by one, B they were gone

E Back at base, F#m bugs in the software
A Flash the message: B Something’s out there…
E Floating in the F#m summer sky
A 99 B Red Balloons go by

Inter E

E 99 F#m Red Balloons
A Floating in the B summer sky
E Panicking, it’s F#m red alert
There’s A something here from B somewhere else

E War machines F#m spring to life
A Opens up one B eager eye
E Focusing it F#m on the sky
Where A 99 B Red Balloons go by…

Inter E F#m A B x 2

E 99 F#m Decision street
A 99 B ministers meet
To E worry, worry; F#m super scurry
A Call the troops out B in a hurry

E This is what we’ve F#m waited for
A This is it, boys, B this is war
The E president is F#m on the line
As A 99 B Red Balloons go by

Inter E

E 99 knights F#m of the air
Ride A super high-tech B jet fighters
E Everyone’s a F#m super hero
A Everyone’s a B Captain Kirk

With E orders to F#m identify
To A clarify and B classify
E Scramble in the F#m summer sky
As A 99 B Red Balloons go by

Inter E F#m A B x 4

E 99 dreams F#m I have had
In A every one a B red balloon
E It’s all over now and I’m F#m standing pretty
A In the dust that B was a city

If E I could find a F#m souvenir
A Just to prove the B world was here
E And here is a F#m red balloon
A I think of you B and let it go…