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Intro 1
(G major)
Verse 1
I had a (G major) gun pointed at my head on several occasions,
Yeah Nadine I was scared.
Something about a black man with a machine
gun make you wish you said your prayers,
It was Ni (C major) geria, the year was (G major) 1969
I was (D major) teaching criminology,
playing a little guitar on the side.
(G major)
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Verse 2
In Apache Pass, Prince Rupert,
Injun Jack puts a gun to my head
He said 'how do you like it now gentlemen?
How's your blue eyed boy Mr Dead?
It was (C major) Canada this time,
the year was (G major) 1971
I was per (D major) forming at the club Zanzibar
In the neon world of knives (G major) an d guns
Verse 3
Oh excuse (E minor) me if I'm boring you dear listener,
accept my humble (G major) apology.
You may think (A minor) I'm just a folk singer, no,
I'm a (D major) master in the art of crim (G major) inology.
Verse 4
When Picasso (G major) died,
the Indians cried in a Prince George motel room.
We were drunker than a thousand white
men playing lumber camp saloon.
It was (C major) Canada again,
the year was (G major) 1973
There were grizzly (D major) bears
walking down main street
What an amazing sight to see.
(G major)
Verse 5
well the devil rides a cubist horse,
the devil he's got angles
but God is an expressionist, he got the devil
strangled down in (C major) purgatorian limbo in hell
Ahh them southern rip
joints just (G major) like that
God's (D major) waiting room is full
of painters and poets
and old black jazz saints in pork pie (G major) hats
Verse 6
Oh ex (E minor) cuse me if I'm boring you dear listener,
accept my humble (G major) apology.
You may think (A minor) I'm some jive folk singer, no,
I'm a (D major) master in the art of crimin (G major) ology.
Interlude 1
Break
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(D major) (G major)
Verse 7
So I (G major) got off a plane in Nigeria,
it was 1969. Arrested by Ton Ton Macoute.
Taking photos was a war zone crime,
they were going to (C major) hack me up with machetes
a US ambassador come
home paid my (G major) bribe
So I played gui (D major) tar with Victor Uwaifo
and taught a little criminology on the side (G major)
Verse 8
Yeah that's my (E minor) story
and I'm sticking to it
No regrets, no surrender, no apo (G major) logy
I know a (A minor) little bit about a lot of things
I'm a (D major) master in the art of crim (G major) inology
Yeah that's my (E minor) story
and I'm sticking to it
No regrets, no surrender, no apology (G major)
I know a little bit about a lot
of things
I'm a master in the art of
criminology
Verse 9
No regrets, no surrender, no apology I know a (A minor)
little bit about a lot of things
I'm a (D major) master in the art of
crimin (G major) ology
Verse 10
criminology (G major)
criminology
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Criminology
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