Northern frontier chords by Tom Cochrane

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Intro 1

On a muggy night in the

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north end in July
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A kid named Joseph Beeper Spence
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Took a shotgun blast to the back
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And died...
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There by the CP tracks,
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along the great divide, you see
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Fought two native gangs called the
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deuce and the I.P.

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Dances with warriors,

hatred between slaves

They kill each other off,

we all get saved

I can't help but think... his

mother's tears

Beeper Spence was thirteen

In the northern frontier

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A van crossed the bridge that night
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And stopped at Flora Avenue
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When Beeper thought they'd
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lost their way
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Walked over to see what he could do
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"Are you I.P.? Straight up," he'd say
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Even  if it wasn't true
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"Bust a cap in his ass."
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He turned to run, heard the blast
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Then he was through

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The kids in the van weren't much
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older than him
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Couldn't tell the difference
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by the color of their skin
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One thing in common,
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and one thing was real clear
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Their future was ended in the northern frontier

Interlude 1

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Dances with warriors,
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hatred between slaves
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They cut each other down
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and no one is safe
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Jeff Giles is cut down in his twenty
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second year
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Trying to stop an I.P. robbery
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In the northern frontier