Fire On Babylon 
(Words and music by Sinéad O'Connor and John Reynolds)
Intro: 

G#5 (4 fr) 

                    F#5/G# (4 fr)        E5/G# (2 fr)                        G#5 (4 fr) 

She took my fa-ther     from my life, ____________________ 

             F#5/G# (4 fr)         C#m/G# (4 fr)     D#/G# 

took my sis-ter and ___ bro-thers                 on _______________ 

G#m (4 fr)                         F#5/G# (4 fr)      E5/G# (2 fr)                           G#5 (4 fr) 

                   I watched her tor-tur-ing my      child, ____________________ 

                               F#5/G# (4 fr)       C#m/G# (4 fr) 

fee-ble I _____ was then, but now I'm grown. 

D#5/G#                                            F#5/G# (4 fr)                       G#5 (4 fr) 

Fi-re _____ on Babylon, oh __ yes a change has come, fi-re _____ on Babylon. 

F#/G# (4 fr)          G#5 (4 fr)       F#5/G# (4 fr)     G#5 (4 fr)      F#5/G# (4 fr) 

Fi-re, __________                   fi-re                                          fi-re 

                    F#5/G# (4 fr)     E5/G# (2 fr)                            G#5 (4 fr) 

She's ta-ken ev-ery-thing I      liked, ____________________ 

                   F#5/G# (4 fr)         C#m/G# (4 fr)     D#/G# 

she's tak-en ev-ery lov-er _____                         on, _______________ 

G#m (4 fr)                 F#5/G# (4 fr)        E5/G# (2 fr)                         G#5 (4 fr) 

                   and all a-long she gave me lies, ____________________ 

                         F#5/G# (4 fr)                C#m/G# (4 fr) 

just to make me think I loved her. ______ 

D#5/G#                                 F#5/G# (4 fr)                             G#5 (4 fr) 

Fi-re on Babylon, oh __ yes a change has come, look what she did to her son. 

F#/G# (4 fr)          G#5 (4 fr)       F#5/G# (4 fr)     G#5 (4 fr)      F#5/G# (4 fr) 

Fi-re, __________                   fi-re                                          fi-re on 

Life's backwards, life's back-wards, peo-ple turn a-round, the house is burned, the house is burned the child-ren are gone. 

     G#5 (4 fr)                            F#5/G# (4 fr)          G#5 (4 fr)                            F#5/G# (4 fr) 

FI-RE, ____________________                         FI-RE, ____________________ 

   G#5 (4 fr)                                     F#5/G# (4 fr)           G#5 (4 fr) 
  
fi-re ____ on Ba-by-lon, oh __ yes a change has come, fi-re ____ on Ba-by-lon. 

F#5/G# (4 fr)        G#5 (4 fr)       F#5/G# (4 fr)            G#5 (4 fr)          F#5/G# (4 fr) 

Fi-re, __________                   fi-re, __________     fi-re, ______ 

G#5 (4 fr)                                        F#5/G# (4 fr)           G#5 (4 fr) 
  
fi-re ____ on Ba-by-lon, oh __ yes a change has come, 

                      G#5 (4 fr)                             G#5 (4 fr) 

look what she did to her son, look what she did to her son. 

    G#5 (4 fr)                    F#5/G# (4 fr)        G#5 (4 fr)                 F#5/G# (4 fr)     G#5 (4 fr) 

Fi-re, ____________________                 fi-re, ____________________ 

F#5/G# (4 fr)     G#5             F#5/G# (4 fr)                    G#5 (4 fr)                        F#5/G# (4 fr) 

                         fi         -       re, ________________________________________ 

G#5 (4 fr)                              F#5/G# (4 fr)                                   

fi-re, ____________________ 

                  G#5 (4 fr)                  F#5/G# (4 fr)                        G#5 (4 fr) 
  
 fi       -       re, _______________________________________ 

F#5/G# (4 fr)                       G#5 (4 fr)          F#5/G# (4 fr)          G#5 (4 fr) 

fi-re on                                Ba-by-lon 

F#/A# (4 fr)     G#5 (4 fr)          F#5          G#5 (4 fr)          F#/A# (4 fr)          G#5 (4 fr) 

fi-re on           Ba-by-lon.