David Rovics – The Biggest Windmill chords

[Verse 1]
       G                       C               GIt was in the 1970’s, the fuel crisis had begun
    G                            C            DThe choices were presented to us as if we had none
G                        C                       GLeaders of industry said they could solve the problem
   G                          C           DBy mastering the power of the radioactive atom
     Em                             C               DSome folks in western Jutland got a notion in their heads
     Em                                          C        DThey thought there might be something they could offer up instead
      G                            C                   DA few hundred people gathered in a little place called Tvind
    Em                                 C            DAnd declared their will to harness the power of the wind
            G                                 EmWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
            C                 D                 GWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world


[Verse 2]
G                              C                    GThere were many who said their science wasn’t sound
     G                                   C                    DThat such a mighty windmill would simply topple to the ground
G                                        C               DSome of them were scientists, the vast majority were not
         G                         C                  DBut they knew with years of effort you could do a lot
Em                            C            DWord about the project spread far and wide
  Em                                C           DA hundred thousand visitors came to help and to advise
      G                               C                    DUntil one day these windmill builders drove in with a crane
    Em                          C                  DAnd lifted up their giant wings with a mighty chain
            G                                 EmWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
            C                 D                 GWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world


[Verse 3]
     G                           C                    GWhen Tvindkraft was completed it reached up to the sky
    G                            C        DIts wings churned in the air at 54 meters high
    G                        C                 DThe critics all fell silent, no one now was jeering
        G                             C             DAs even industry agreed this was some damn fine engineering
    Em                            C                 DThe wind regaled Jutland from the north Atlantic sea
          Em                        C           DAs it was seamlessly converted into electricity
       G                        C         DIt was power for the people, leukemia for none
     G                                   C               DWhen they declared in Denmark just south of the midnight sun
            G                                 EmWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
            C                 D                 GWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world


[Verse 4]
     G                                C                   GThey gave away the patents, they said knowledge should be free
G                                C                 DAnd their plans were copied by a new-born industry
     G                              C                DSoon Denmark would be known as the windmill-building nation
           G                                C                DAnd it all started with some hippies at the Tvindkraft power station
  Em                                  C                       DDebates were held in parliament about which way things should go
        Em                   C             DBuild a nuclear reactor, the majority said no
   G                                      C                       GIt could have gone quite differently — in much of the world it did
  G                                        C                    DExcept for those in Ulfborg who said we’re getting off the grid
            G                                 EmWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
            C                 D                  EmWe’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world