[Chorus]
 D 
 Ohhh why don't we all just get stoned, 
 G D
get drunk and sing beer drinking songs
 D
Between Breshneff and Fagan, Khomeini and Ragen
 A7 G
We might as well all just get stoned.

[Verse 1]
D
You can't even look at T.V. these days
 A7
Without getting scared half to death

The eye witness news leaves me used and abused
 D
I find myself gasping for breath

[Verse 2]
D
There's strikes and inflation and strife between nations
 G
The worlds in a hell of a mess
 D
But no matter who's hurt'n there's one thing for certain
 A7 D
The whole world will blame the U.S.

[Chorus]
 D 
 Ohhh why don't we all just get stoned, 
 G D
get drunk and sing beer drinking songs
 D
Between Breshneff and Fagan, Khomeini and Ragen
 A7 G
We might as well all just get stoned.

[Verse 3]
D
The Russians don't like us and we don't like them
 A7
The Israelis hate the Arabs

Iran and Iraq are on each others backs
 A7 D
and Al Salvador's still up for grabs

[Verse 4]
D
I wish they'd take Eiddie, Ahlmene and Khomeini
 G
and Kadofe and all of the rest
 D
Tie them all up to a chair and make them stare at Yasser Arafat
 A7 D
till he ugly'd the whole bunch to death

[Chorus]
 D 
 Ohhh why don't we all just get stoned, 
 G D
get drunk and sing beer drinking songs
 D
Between Breshneff and Fagan, Khomeini and Ragen
 A7 G
We might as well all just get stoned.

[Verse 5]
D
There's mass unemplyment and crime in the streets
 A7
Inflation gets worse every day
 A7
Their tax'n us the maximus and congress ain't after them
 D
Takes most of my pay check away

[Verse 6]
 D A7
Now social security becomes an obscurity
A7 D
Were the hells all the money we made
G
Lord if the commie's don't take us
 D A7 D
Reaganomics will break us, we don't have a chance either way.

[Chorus]
 D 
 Ohhh why don't we all just get stoned, 
 G D
get drunk and sing beer drinking songs
 D
Between Breshneff and Fagan, Khomeini and Ragen
 A7 G
We might as well all just get stoned.