Christy Moore – Palestine (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

Composed 2002 by Jim Page [Intro] C [Verse 1]
C
Let Me Tell You A Story

C
I’ll Be Quick As I Can

         G                  C
Terrible News From The Holy Land

C
Pictures Of Children Etched In My Mind

C             G                    C
Buried In The Rubble On The Firing Line
[Chorus]
    F                                    C
The Jews And The Arabs Lived One And The Same

           F                        C
A Thousand Years, Then The Zionists Came

F                              Am
Came Like A River, Came Like A Flood

   C         G                      C
Al-Nakba Was Written On The Wall In Blood
[Verse 2]
C
Talk About Settlers From Far Away

           G                C
Talk About Dollars From The USA

C
Talk About Blast Bombs, The Bullets And The Lead

    G                                        C
The Shadow Of The Jackboot Hanging Over Your Head
[Chorus]
             F                          C
What Can You Do When They Demolish Your Home?

      F                C
Olive Trees Buried And Gone

F              Am
 Do You Dare To Resist?

C                        G            C
Stand On The Road With A Rock In Your Fist

        G             C
In Palestine, In Palestine
[Verse 3]
C
They Talk About Peace

C
Like It’s A Moral Obligation

C                 G               C
There’ll Never Be Peace Under Occupation

C
Talk About Talks To The Beat Of The Drum

   G                  C
70 Years, Nakba Rolls On
[Chorus]
           F                              C
We Need To Talk About The Friends That We Endorse

    F                                               C
The Rockets And The The Tanks And The Warships They Disperse

   F                  Am
No Wonder It Seems To Be

   C            G          C
An Undemocratic Version Of Democracy

        G             C
In Palestine, In Palestine
[Outro]
C
Let Me Tell You A Story, I’ll Be Quick As I Can

                 G                  C
There’s Terrible News From The Holy Land