Watts Riot Demo/Fillmore Sequence chords by Frank Zappa

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Well, I'm about  (E minor) 
G 
to get  (G major) sick
Em 
G 
From  (E minor) watchin' my  (G major) TV
Em 
G 
Been  (E minor) checkin' out  (G major) the news until
Em 
G 
my  (E minor) eyeballs  (G major) fail to see
Em 
G 
I mean to say  (E minor) that  (G major) every day is
just another rotten mess
Em 
G 
And  (E minor) when it's gon (G major) na change,
my friends, is anybody's guess

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Verse 2
A 
G 
So I'm  (A major) watchin' and I'm wait (G major) in'
B 
 (B major) Hopin' for the best
A 
Even  (A major) think I'll go to prayin'
B 
 (B major) Every time I hear 'em sayin'
Em 
G 
That there's  (E minor) no   way  (G major) to delay that
A 
G 
 (A major) trouble comin' every  (G major) day
Em 
No way to delay that  (E minor) trouble
G 
comin' every  (G major) day
A 
G 
Wednesday I  (A major) watched the riot, I seen the cops  (G major) out on the street

Verse 3
Watched 'em
throwin' rocks and stuff and
chokin' in the heat
A 
G 
Listened to  (A major) reports about  (G major) the whisky
passin' 'round
Em 
G 
 (E minor) Seen the smoke and fire and  (G major) the market
burnin' down
A 
 (A major) Watched while everybody on
his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
D 
an (D major) d slash and bust and burn
G 
And I'm  (G major) watchin' and I'm waitin' Hopin'

Verse 4
G 
 (G major) 
for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
A 
Every  (A major) time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
that trouble comin' every day
G 
No way to delay that  (G major) trouble
comin' every day

Verse 5
G 
Well, you can cool  (G major) 
it you can heat it
'Cause, baby, I don't need it
A 
Take your TV  (A major) tube and eat it
And all that phony stuff on sports and all the
G 
uncon (G major) firmed reports
A 
You know I watched that rot (A major) ten box
until my head began to hurt
G 
From checkin' out the way the  (G major) news
men say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so- and-
A 
so, further they asser (A major) t
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
G 
They say that if the place  (G major) blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
A 
 (A major) are workin' hard and doin' swell
G 
And if any (G major) body gets the news
A 
Before it hits the street they say  (A major) that
no one blabs it faster
G 
Their coverage can't be  (G major) beat
And if another woman driver
A 
Gets machine- gunned from her  (A major) seat
They'll send some joker with a
brownie and you'll see it all complete

Verse 6
A 
So  (A major) I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
G 
 (G major) Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
A 
That there's  (A major) no way to delay that
trouble comin' every day
G 
No way to delay that trouble  (G major) comin'
every day

Verse 7

Hey, you know something people?

I'm not black but there's a whole lots a times

I wish I could say I'm not white

Verse 8
G 
Well, I seen  (G major) the fires burnin' and
A 
the  (A major) local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops who used
to sell their brooms and mops
G 
 (G major) And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn
and bite 'em
A 
 (A major) And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white
D 
G 
And  (D major)  (G major) it's the same across the nation,
black and white discrimination
Yellin' "you can't understand me!"
A 
 (A major) An d all that other jazz
they hand me
D 
In the paper (D major) s and TV and all that
mass stupidity
G 
 (G major) That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
A 
 (A major) 'Cause the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
No matter if it's black or white because
C 
he's out for blood to (C major) night

Verse 9
You know we gotta sit around at
Em 
home and watch  (E minor) this thing begin
C 
A 
But I bet  (C major) there won't be  (A major) many
left to see it really end
'Cause the fire in the street
Eb 
ain't like  (E flat major) the fire in the heart
Em 
And  (E minor) in the eyes of all these people
G 
 (G major) don't you know that this could start?
Em 
 (E minor) On any street, in any town, in any
B 
state if any  (B major) clown
G 
Decides that now's the  (G major) time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree,
Em 
there  (E minor) ain't no great society
As it applies to you and me
G 
C 
Em 
Our  (G major)  (C major)  (E minor) country isn't free
C 
Eb 
And  (C major) the law refuse to  (E flat major) see if all
that you can ever be
A 
Is just a lousy  (A major) janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
C#m 
You know that  (C sharp minor) five in every four
A 
 (A major) Just won't amount to nothin' more
D 
C 
Than  (D major) watchin' rats go  (C major) across the floor
B 
And  (B major) make up songs about
being poor
Blow your harmonica, son!