Grant Lee Buffalo
Copperopolis - 1996
CHORDS
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Tune guitar down half a step to play along: Eb Bb Gb Db Ab Eb.
5. CRACKDOWN
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Comments:
1. You could also use Bm7 instead of Bm in all Verses. It fits.
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Intro:
Figure 1: x2
A Bm D
e [--0---0------------0--2--0-------0--0------------]
b [--2------2--2--3-----------------3-----3--2--3---]
g [--2--------------------------2---4-----------2---]
d [--2------------------------------4-----------0---]
a [--0----------------------------------------------]
e [-------------------------------------------------]
Verse 1:
A Bm D
Music of a southern day and the nectar of brass
A Bm D
Spilling into Congo Square where the queens used to pass
A Bm D
There lies no greater place for one left to drift
A Bm D
And there hides no greater lie and no bigger myth
Chorus:
Bm D A
And in the heat of crackdown all is silent
Bm D A
Just before the match is struck and the gas is poured along roads
Bm D A Bm D
But in the heat of crackdown all is silent underneath
Verse 2:
A Bm D
Gunned down in the drive a foreign exchange
A Bm D
Student from Japan whose fate it was shortchanged
A Bm D
You saw it all when it made the national news
A Bm D
How the isolated incident occurred in Baton Rouge
Chorus:
Bm D A
And in the heat of crackdown all is silent
Bm D A
Just before the match is struck and the gas is poured along roads
Bm D A Bm D
But in the heat of crackdown all is silent underneath
A Bm G
It's a crackdown on beliefs
Middle part:
D G
Everyone watching
D G
The events from the sky
D G
No bodies touching
D G
Don't wish to prize
A
Into our own lives
Bm D
Into our own
Verse 3:
A Bm D
Terrorism terrify tear the truth in two
A Bm D
Seeks to paralyze weaken turn the screws
A Bm D
But only cowards could create the OK bomb
A Bm D
Cause no bomb is OK when there can be no calm
Chorus:
Bm D A
And in the heat of crackdown all is silent
Bm D A
While the voice of power over roars condemns the songs of
Bm D A Bm D
Innocence and finally it's a crackdown on beliefs
A Bm D
Oh it's a crackdown on beliefs
A Bm D
And it's a crackdown on beliefs
Outtro:
Bm D A x6
Oh oh oh
Bm D A Bm D
And this is a crackdown on beliefs (na na na na)
A Bm D
Will you have a crackdown on beliefs (na na na na)
A Bm
This a crackdown on beliefs
D
This is a crackdown
A
This is a crackdown
Bm D
This is a crackdown
A
This is a crackdown
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