Christy Moore – Biko Drum (Guitar)
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Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Chords
Hi All, this is a great song and credit to the person that put it up.
I've made a few additions/changes to capture Christy's beat on this.
It's just a half or quarter bar on the second cord on each line but if you listen
to the song you'll pick it up.
(1) G C G As they went home on an Easter Road C F G On a silent night trying not to show C F G Who goes where and who goes when F C G Thinking some day soon they'll get it back again (2) G C F From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold C F G Little Boy Blue can't be sold C F G Under tin roof and a plastic wall F C G Thinking some day soon we re going to leave it all (chorus) C G F And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs Am F G And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong F The blacks and the coloureds play G The Biko Drum F The blacks and the coloureds play G Am The Biko Drum F G Listen to the Biko Drum (3) G C G Transvaal kids on a Transvaal day C F G Little by little they show the way C F G To a city of dreams and solid ground F C G Thinking some day soon we're gonna come around (4) G C G Steve's living in a prison cell C F G All the friends that know hope he's doing well C F G Down here they listen to the Biko Drum F C G Down here they listen to the songs he sung (chorus) C G F And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs Am F G And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong F The blacks and the coloureds play G The Biko Drum F The blacks and the coloureds play G Am The Biko Drum F G Listen to the Biko Drum (5) G C G Nelson listen to the people sing C F G Nelson Mandela the people's king C F G Twenty-five years in a white man's jail F C G Twenty-five years we couldn't make him say (chorus) C G F And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs Am F G And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong F The blacks and the coloureds play G The Biko Drum F The blacks and the coloureds play G Am The Biko Drum F G Listen to the Biko Drum
(outro – play 2x)
F G Am Listen to the Biko Drum F G Am the Biko Drum F G Am Listen to the Biko Drum
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