Chumbawamba – An Interlude Beginning To Take It Back (Guitar)

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[Intro] C [Verse 1]
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Words to describe Nicaragua of old

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Cash crops and hunger and US control

C          F        Dm      G
Coffee and sugar on company land

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Made to supply what the boss would demand
[Pre-Chorus 1]
     F        C          F       C
Then one July morning in Seventy-Nine

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Nicaragua decided to leave it behind
[Chorus]
        C          F           Dm              G
And the people are learning to take back their lives

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As the country will change, Sandinista survives
[Verse 2]
C         F            Dm            G
Women are winning what they've never known

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The power to organize outside the home

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Starting to find what is equal and fair

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Ensuring that this revolution is shared
[Pre-Chorus 2]
F              C        F              C
Regaining lost chances, demanding much more

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Running the factories, fighting the war
[Chorus]
        C          F           Dm              G
And the people are learning to take back their lives

       Am           Dm           G        C
As the country will change, Sandinista survives
[Verse 3]
C      F                Dm       G
Nobody claims that it's over and done

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There's too much depends on enlistment and guns

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And raising their children and filling their plates

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And chasing the Contras to Washington State
[Pre-Chorus 3]
    F          C      F             C
The Yankee conspiracy thrown to the ground

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That's where the spirit of change can be found
[Chorus]
        C          F           Dm              G
And the people are learning to take back their lives

       Am           Dm           G        C
As the country will change, Sandinista survives