Barclay James Harvest – African (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Artist - Barclay James Harvest ******************************** Song - African **************** Face To Face (1987) ********************* Tabbed By - Ayreon77 ********************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSE 1 ********

            E  
Through the eyes of a child

There's no wrong or right

   A
No reason to hate

No need for a fight

   E
No color, no creed

   A          G
No malice, no greed

                         A
Till the child becomes a man

E G A E

E
Give up your freedom

D
Hand back your rights

A
Then change your color now

       C
You're black not white

             A                       C
And there'll never be a piece of the action

              E
Now you're an African

----------------------- VERSE 2 ********

E                  D
Forget beliefs and swallow your pain

A
You're just a number now

    C
And Boy's your name

           A                        C
And you'll never get a piece of the action

             E
Now you're a working man

----------------------- PRE CHORUS ***********

E        A                   E
African, Asian, it's all the same

E             A
Brown, black, Caucasian

             E
It's all the same

E            A
Slave labor, working class

            E
What's in a name

G                    A
Far left, far right, center

                E
It's power they crave

E C E E A G A E ----------------------- CHORUS *******

    E 
The politics of Apartheid

    D
The politics of shame

    A
The cold abuse of human rights

   C
Of torture and of pain

    A
Are only part of the action

C                 E
   When you're an African

    E
The politics of making more

    D
The politics of greed

    A
The cold abuse of poverty

   C
To keep your labor cheap

    A
Are only part of the action

C                 E
    When you're a working man

----------------------- PRE CHORUS ***********

E        A                   E
African, Asian, it's all the same

E             A
Brown, black, Caucasian

             E
It's all the same

E            A
Slave labor, working class

            E
What's in a name

G                    A
Far left, far right, center

G                    A
Far left, far right, center

C                    D
Far left, far right, center

                E
It's power they crave

----------------------- SOLO ***** E A C E A ----------------------- CHORUS *******

    E
The politics of buying arms

When there's no food to eat

    D
The politics of digging gold

Instead of planting seeds

    C
The leader with his private golf course

And his flashy cars

     A
Sits playing with his diamond wrist watch

While the people starve

    E
The politics of shooting down

A plane that brings relief

   D
By fat men playing power games

Who've got enough to eat

    C
The politics of racial hate

The politics of war

    A
The men who sell the guns have fun

While we all count the score ----------------------- BRIDGE *******

C
One, two, three, four

D
Thousands, millions

C            D
People dying just to keep

            E
Them in the action

----------------------- VERSE 3 ********

            A
Through the eyes of a man

        D
There's wrong and there's right

  A
A reason to hate

There's need for a fight

        E
There's color, there's creed

         A              G
There's malice, there's greed

                         A
When the child becomes a man

ENJOY..........