Christy Moore - Biko drum
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Biko Drum – Christy Moore
(1) G
And they went home on an Easter Road
On a Csilent night tryin’ not tGo show
CWho goes where and Dwho goes Gwhen
Thinkin??F? some day soon they’ll get it bacGk again
(2) G
From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold
CLittle Boy Blue can’t bGe sold
CUnder tin roof and a Dplastic Gwall
Thinkin??F? some day soon we’re goin’ to leaGve it all
(chorus) C G F
And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
And the Aones who know hope they’rDe doinG’ wrong
The Fblacks and the coloureds play
The Biko GDrum
The Fblacks and the coloureds play
The GBiko ADrum
FListen to the Biko GDrum
(3) G
Transvaal kids on a Transvaal day
CLittle by little they show the Gway
To a Ccity of dreams and Dsolid Gground
Thinkin??F? some day soon we’re gonna comGe around
(4) G
Steve he’s livin’ in a prison cell
CAll the friends that know hope he’s doinG’ well
Down Chere they listen to the DBiko GDrum
Down Fhere they listen to the songs he Gsung
(chorus)
(5) G
Nelson listen to the people sing
CNelson Mandela the people’Gs king
CTwenty-five years in a Dwhite man’Gs jail
FTwenty-five years we couldn’t make hiGm say
(chorus)
(outro – play 2x)
FListen to the Biko GDrum
F the Biko GDrum
FListen to the Biko GDrum
F G