Key: Db major
Verse 1
C
The most dangerous thing
F
C
that exists in the world today is...
Serious thing
Am
C
Oh yes it is
Hey, the way the people are
F
living nowadays
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
Can't get no work, can't get no pay
C
F
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
C
The little children,
F
they can't go to school
C
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
F
C
Teachers demonstrating
F
for your salaries
C
Let me tell you, it's a serious thing
To come home to find your children
F
C
out of school and on the streets idling
Is a very serious thing
This arises from a situation
F
where instead of teachers or
school teaching
C
They're on the streets
demonstrating and that's us
F
So much wars and famine on the land
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
Yet we are making more war planes
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
C
There is no attention on
F
the youth nowadays
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
C
F
No future plans or opportunities
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
The devastating memory of Hiroshima
F
Has not quenched the blood
C
and thirst of Satan
And that's a very serious thing
His future plans are to devour your children
F
As he thinks of Brendan
C
to create instead
The dog of the dead
F
C
In town and country
F
it's the same old cry
C
Let me tell you it's
a serious thing
F
Brothers and sisters I'm telling no lie
Am
F
C
Let me tell you it's
a serious thing
Sometimes you'd wonder if
F
you're wrong or right
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
C
If you've got to
F
stand up and fight
Dm
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
The struggle for the black
man's liberty
F
C
against the vicious apartheid system
of South Africa is a very serious thing
And if the weapon of resistance
is in the hand of the oppressed
F
against the oppressors,
C
F
then that also is a very serious thing
C
Can't pay more bills,
can't pay more rent
Now let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
Food is essential but I ain't got a cent
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
C
F
So much people begging in the streets
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
C
Some are big enough to
F
have a bite to eat
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
If in the nick of time you come home to find the landlord's
C
paid you for leaving of all your possessions
that could be a serious thing
F
C
For your table or for your chair
you could find a spare
F
C
but to take your bed away
is a very serious thing
To go to your brother to ask for a loan
F
C
only to realize that he was
heading for your home
is a very serious thing
And to be in a position
F
where your daily bread
C
comes only from the garbage
F
is a very Serious thing
C
Tom, Dick and Harry they are complaining
F
C
Oh yeah, they are saying
it's a serious thing
F
About the condition they are living in
C
Oh yeah, they are saying
it's a serious thing
F
C
So much in the prison, living in one cell
F
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
F
Much more than joining in that smell
C
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
To be confined to a cell
F
which like a cesspool bears a smell
C
is a very, very serious thing
To be stripped of all your rights,
F
sanity, dignity and liberty
C
is a very, very serious thing
To be chained and shackled
F
and thrown in the dungeon
C
is a very, very serious thing
F
Dm
We're working on a chain gang
D
C
F
C
It's a serious thing
F
C
Thank God for liberation
It's a serious thing
F
C
And things are
Things are serious
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