African
African

African easy guitar chords by Barclay James Harvest

N/A
Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo
  • Dsus4

  • G

  • Dm

  • F

  • Gm

    3
  • D

  • C

  • Bb

  • Dsus4

  • G

  • Dm

  • F

  • Gm

    3
  • D

  • C

  • Bb

  • Verse 1
    Through the eyes 
    of 
    child 

    There's 
    no 
    wrong 
    or 
    right 

    No 
    reason 
    to 
    hate 

    No 
    need 
    for 
    a fight 

    No 
    color, 
    no 
    creed 

    No 
    malice, 
    no 
    greed 

    Till the 
    child 
    be
    comes 
    man 




    Give 
    up 
    your freedom 

    Hand 
    back 
    your 
    rights 

    Then 
    change 
    your 
    color 
    now 

    You're 
    black 
    not 
    white 

    And 
    there'll 
    never 
    be 

    piece 
    of 
    the 
    action 

    Now 
    you're 
    an 
    African 

    Verse 2
    Forget 
    beliefs 

    and 
    swallow 
    your 
    pain 

    You're 
    just 
    a number 
    now 

    And 
    Boy's 
    your 
    name 

    And 
    you'll 
    never 
    get 

    piece 
    of 
    the 
    action 

    Now 
    you're 
    a working 
    man 

    Verse 3
    Afric
    an, 
    Asian, 

    it's 
    all 
    the same 

    Brown, 
    black, 
    Caucasi
    an 

    It's 
    all 
    the 
    same 

    Slave 
    labor, 
    work
    ing 
    class 

    What's 
    in 
    name? 

    Far 
    left, 
    far 
    right, 
    center 

    Interlude 1
    It's 
    power 
    they 
    crave 




    Verse 4
    The 
    politics 
    of 
    Apartheid 

    The 
    politics 
    of shame 

    The 
    cold 
    abuse 
    of human 
    rights 

    Of tor
    ture 
    and 
    of pain 

    Are 
    only 
    part 
    of the 
    action 

    When 
    you're 
    an 
    African 

    Verse 5
    The 
    politics 
    of making 
    more 

    The politics 
    of 
    greed 

    The 
    cold 
    abuse 
    of 
    poverty 

    To 
    keep 
    your 
    labor 
    cheap 

    Are 
    only 
    part 
    of the 
    action 

    When 
    you're 
    a work
    ing 
    man 

    Verse 6
    African, 
    Asian, 

    it's 
    all 
    the same 

    Brown, 
    black, 
    Caucasi
    an 

    It's 
    all 
    the 
    same 

    Slave 
    labor, 
    work
    ing 
    class 

    What's 
    in 
    name? 

    Far 
    left, 
    far 
    right, 
    center

    Far 
    left, 
    far 
    right, 
    center 

    Far 
    left, 
    far 
    right, 
    center 

    It's 
    power 
    they 
    crave 

    Interlude 2





    Verse 7
    The 
    politics 
    of 
    buying 
    arms 

    When 
    there's 
    no 
    food 
    to 
    eat 

    The 
    politics 
    of 
    digging 
    gold 

    Instead 
    of planting 
    seeds 

    The 
    leader 
    with 
    his 
    private 
    golf 
    course 

    And 
    his flashy 
    cars 

    Sits 
    playing 
    with 
    his 
    diamond 
    wrist 
    watch 

    While 
    the people 
    starve 

    Verse 8
    The 
    politics 
    of shooting 
    down 

    A plane 
    that brings 
    relief 

    By 
    fat 
    men 
    playing 
    power 
    games 

    Who've 
    got 
    enough 
    to 
    eat 

    The 
    politics 
    of racial 
    hate 

    The politics 
    of war 

    The 
    men 
    who sell 
    the guns 
    have 
    fun 

    Verse 9
    While 
    we 
    all 
    count 
    the 
    score 

    One, 
    two, 
    three, 
    four 

    Thousands, 
    millions 

    People 
    dying 
    just 
    to 
    keep 

    Them 
    in the 
    action 

    Verse 10

    Through 
    the 
    eyes 
    of 
    man 

    There's 
    wrong 
    and 
    there's 
    right 

    reason 
    to 
    hate 

    There's 
    need 
    for 
    a fight 

    There's 
    col
    or, 
    there's 
    creed 

    There's 
    malice, 
    there's 
    greed 

    When the 
    child 
    becomes 
    man 

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