Under Pressure

Intro 
F C Bb C 
F C Bb C 


 
F                C 
Pressure pushing down on me 
         Bb                      C 
Pressing down on you, no man ask for 
      F                     C 
Under pressure that burns a building down 
         Bb 
Splits family in two 
     C 
Puts people on streets 

F C Bb C 
Oh, no (Um-ba-ba-da) 
Ooh-ooh, no (Um-ba-ba-da) 
(Ee-eh-da) 
Hmm (Ee-eh-da) 
(That's okay) 
 

 
C         Bb 
 It's the terror of knowing 
          C 
What this world is about 
Bb 
Watching some good friends 
          C 
Screaming, "Let me out!" 
     Bb            C 
Pray tomorrow take me higher (oh ha, ha) 
         F/A             Bb C 

F C Bb C 
(Um-ba-ba-da) 
(Um-ba-ba-da) 
(Ee-eh-da, ee-eh-da) 
 

 
F            C 
 Chippin' around, kick my brains 'round the floor 
Bb              C                             F C Bb C 
 These are the days it never rains but it pours 

(Um-ba-ba-da) 
(Um-ba-ba-da) 
Ee-eh, eh (Ee-eh-da, ee-eh-da) 

F                C 
People on streets (Ee-de-aye-aye) 
Bb              C 
people on streets (yay,eh- yeh ay ay) 
 

 
         Bb 
It's the terror of knowing 
          C 
What this world is about 
Bb 
Watching some good friends 
          C 
Screaming, "Let me out!" 
     Bb            C                  F/A Bb  C 
Pray tomorrow gets me higher and higher and higher and higher and higher 
 

Interlude 
        Bb                     D# 
Turned away from it all like a blind man 
Bb                     D# 
 Sat on a fence but it don't work 
     Bb                              D# 
Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn 
    Cm    G#   Bb  G# Bb C     - Bb C 
Ooh-hoo, ooh-oh, oh, why? 

Ooh-hoo, ooh-oh, no 


 
         Dm7                       Am7     Dm7 
Why can't we give ourselves one more chance? 
    C     Dm        C        F 
Have we give love one more chance? 
    Dm                            Am 
Can we give love, give love, give love, give love,  (give love, give love, give love?..) 
 

 
       C               Gm            Dm 
('Cause love's such an old fashioned word and) 
   Am               Bb   C 
(Love dares you to care for 
 Dm         F       Am  Bb      C   Dm 
the people on the edge of the night and) 
   C      F           Gm       Am 
(Love dares you to change our way of 
Bb      C     Dm 
caring about ourselves) 
Em     F     Gm    A 
(This is our last dance) Oh, oh-oh 
Bb          C     Dm 
(This is our last dance) Oh, oh-oh 
Em    F       Gm    Bb 
(This is ourselves) 
 

Outro 
Dm 
Under pressure 
Am               BP 
Pressing down on me 
         C      Dm    Em    F 
Pushing down on you, oh-oh, oh 
Am     Bb 
Under pressure 
         C        Dm 
Brings a building down 
         C         F      Gm   Am 
Splits a family in two, oh-oh, ooh-oh 
('Cause love's such an old fashioned word and) 
Bp 
Under pressure, oh, oh 
      C         Dm  Em   F 
(Love dares you to care for) 
Under pressure, oh, oh 
      G            Am   Bb  C    Dm 
(The people on the edge of the night and) 

Pressure, ooh-ooh 
Ooh-ooh, yeah, yeah 
Em     F            Gm         Am 
(Love dares you to change your way of) 
Under pressure 
Dm      C         Bb 
(Caring about ourselves) 
C     Dm     C     F 
(This is our last dance) 

Pushing down on me 
Am    Bb   C      Dm 
(This is our last dance) 
Pressing down on you 
Pressing down on you, oh 

C     F   Gm       Am 
(This is ourselves) 
Under pressure, oh, oh, no 

Bb      C      Dm 
(Caring about ourselves) 
C     F            Am 
(This is our last dance)Ooh 
Bb    C       Dm 
(This is our last dance) 
Em    F   Gm         Bb 
(This is ourselves)