Key: G major
Intro 1
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Em
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Em
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Em
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Verse 1
Em
G
From watchin' my TV
Em
G
Been checkin' out the news until
Em
G
my eyeballs fail to see
Em
G
I mean to say that every day is
just another rotten mess
Em
G
And when it's gonna change,
my friends, is anybody's guess
Verse 2
A
G
So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Em
G
That there's no way to delay that
A
G
trouble comin' every day
A
G
Wednesday I watched the riot, I seen the cops out on the street
Verse 3
Watched 'em
throwin' rocks and stuff and
chokin' in the heat
A
G
Listened to reports about the whisky
passin' 'round
Em
G
Seen the smoke and fire and the market
burnin' down
his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
Verse 4
G
for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
That there's no way to delay
that trouble comin' every day
comin' every day
Verse 5
it you can heat it
'Cause, baby, I don't need it
And all that phony stuff on sports and all the
until my head began to hurt
men say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so- and-
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
no one blabs it faster
And if another woman driver
They'll send some joker with a
brownie and you'll see it all complete
Verse 6
Hopin' for the best
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
trouble comin' every day
every day
Verse 7
A
I'm not black but there's a whole lots a times
Verse 8
On the merchants and the shops who used
to sell their brooms and mops
Watched the mob just turn
and bite 'em
Because a few of them are white
D
G
And it's the same across the nation,
black and white discrimination
Yellin' "you can't understand me!"
they hand me
mass stupidity
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Just don't appeal to him
No matter if it's black or white because
Verse 9
You know we gotta sit around at
C
A
But I bet there won't be many
left to see it really end
'Cause the fire in the street
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree,
As it applies to you and me
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C
Em
Our country isn't free
C
Eb
And the law refuse to see if all
that you can ever be
Unless your uncle owns a store
D
C
Than watchin' rats go across the floor
being poor
Blow your harmonica, son!
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