"Hold On"


	There's blacks with knives and whites with clubs
	fighting in Howard Beach
	There's no such thing as human rights
	when you walk the N.Y.streets
	A cop was shot in the head by a 10 years old kid
	named Buddah in Central Park last week
	The fathers and daughters are lined up by the coffins
	by the Statue of Bigotry, hey

	You better hold on
	something's happening here
	You better hold on
	well I meet you in Tompkins Square

	The dopers sent a message to the cops last weekend
	they shot him in the car where he sat
	And Eleanor Bumpers and Michael Stewart
	must have appreciated that
	There's a rampaging rage rising up like a plague
	of bloody vials washing up on the beach
	It'll take more than the Angels or Iron Mike Tyson
	to heal this bloody breach, hey, hey

	You better hold on
	something's happening here
	You better hold on
	I'm gonna meet you in Tompkins Square

	A junkie ran down a lady a pregnant dancer
	she'll never dance but the baby was saved
	He shot up some China White and nodded out at the wheel
	and he doesn't remember a thing
	They shot that old lady 'cause they thought she was a witness to
	a crime she didn't even see
	Whose home is the home of the brave
	by the Statue of Bigotry, hey

	You better hold on
	something's happening here
	You better hold on
	meet you in Tompkins Square

	You got a black .38 and a gravity knife
	you still have to ride the train
	There's the smelly essence of N.Y. down there
	but you ain't no Bernard Goetz, ah
	There's no Mafia lawyer to fight in your corner
	for that 15 minutes of fame
	The have and the have nots are bleeding in the tub
	that's New York's future not mine, oh

	You better hold on
	something's happening here
	You better hold on
	you better, something's happening here
	Hold on, ooohhh, babe



intro	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(Ha ha ha)
	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(Oh, oh)
	{A}{A}{D}{A}
	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(There's)

	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(- blacks with knives and whites with clubs ...)
	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(- no such thing as human rights ...)
	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(- shot in the head by a 10 years old kid ...)
	{A}{A}{D}{A}	(- fathers and daughters are lined up by ...)

	{A}{Bm}{D}{A}	(- hold on, something's happening here ...)
	{A}{Bm}{D}{A}	(- hold on, meet you in Tompkins Square)

	....




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///// transcribed by Shirou Kouchi (wildside@mtci.or.jp) ////////////////
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