My Thirty Thousand chords by Billy Bragg and Wilco

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Verse 1

Paul Robeson, he's the man

That faced the Ku Klux Klan

On hollow grove's golfing ground

His words come sounding

Verse 2

And all around him there

To jump and clap and cheer

I sent the best I had, the best I had

My thirty thousand

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Verse 3

The Klansman leader said

That Paul would lose his head

When thirty five thousand vets

Broke up that concert

Verse 4

But less than four thousand came

To side with the Klan

But around Paul's lonesome oak

My thirty thousand

Verse 5
C 
A  (C major) beersoaked brassy band
G 
Did  (G major) snortle round the grounds
Four hundred noblest souls
D 
Westchester's manhood  (D major) 

Verse 6

And they looked exactly like

The fleas on a tiger's back

Lost fish in the waters of

My thirty thousand

Interlude 1

Verse 7

When Paul had sung and gone

And the kids and babies home

Cops came with guns and clubs

And they clubbed and beat 'em

Verse 8

Well, I'd hate to be a cop

Caught with a bloody stick

'Cause you can't bash the brains

Out of thirty thousand

Verse 9

Each eye you tried to gouge

Each skull you tried to crack

Has a thousand, thousand friends

Around this green grass

Verse 10

If you furnish the skull someday

I'll pass out the clubs and guns

To the billion hands that love

My thirty thousand

Verse 11

Each wrinkle on your face

I know it at a glance

You cannot run and hide

Nor duck nor dodge them

Verse 12
G 
And your  (G major) carcass and your deeds
C 
Will  (C major) fertilize the seeds
G 
D 
Of the men  (G major) that stood to  (D major) guard
G 
My thirty  (G major) thousand
Of the men that stood to guard
D 
G 
 (D major) My thirty  (G major) thousand