Winter Of The Long Hot Summer (LP Version) chords by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
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Intro 1
(F major)
Verse 1
It (F major) all seemed so idiotic all the
accusations of unpatriotic
The fall we'll always remember,
capitulating silence
Election November before the winter (B minor)
Of the long hot summer
(F major) Somewhere in the desert
We raised the oil pressure
And waited for the weather
To get much better
For the new wind to blow in the storm
We tried to remember the
history in the region
The French foreign legion,
Imper (B minor) ialis (E major) m,
Peter O'Toole (B minor) and hate
the (C sharp major) (D minor) Ayatollah
Were all (D major) we (D minor) learned in school (B minor)
(F major) Not that we gave Hussein five billion
Not of our new bed partner the Syri (B minor) an
And of course no mention
(F major) of the Palestine situation
It was amazing (E major) how (F major) they steamrolled
They said eighty percent approval
But (E major) there was (B minor) no one that (F major) I knew polled
No one had a reason for being in the Gulf
(E major) We (B minor) waited for con (F major) gress
to speak up illegal build up
But no one would wake up
(B minor) (F major) (B minor) Our representat
(F major) ives (B minor) were Milli Vanilli's
For (F major) corporate Dallas Cowboy
Beverly (B minor) (F major)
Hillbillies
With (E major) perfect (G sharp minor) tim (F major) ing
The politicians rhyming their sentiments
So nicely oil (B minor) gold (E major) and sand (G sharp minor)
My sed (B minor) iments (F major) precisely (B minor)
We regret (F major) fully (E major) support the lunacy
(F major) I'm afraid (A flat minor) there is (F major) no
time for more scrutiny
(E major) National unity (A flat minor) (E major) preserve (F major) our
community
Teflon© election opportunities (B minor)
Were in profundant abundance
On (F major)
Verse 2
(B minor) (E major) Janu (G sharp minor) ary second (F major)
the Bush administration
Announced a recession
had stricken
The Nation the highest quarterly
Earnings in ten years were posted
By Chevron (B minor) (D major)
(F major) Meanwhile a budget
was placed in our hands
As the deadline in the sand came to an end
(E major) (F major) So much for (E major) the peace (F major) dividend
One billion a day is what we spent
(E major) And our grand (F major) children will pay
for it 'til the end
When schools are unfunded
And kids don't get their diplomas
They get used for gun boat
diplomacy
Disproportionately
Black or brown we see
Verse 3
Bullet catchers for the slave master
(F major) Then the conservatives called up reservists
To active service left families nervous
But more importantly broke nine
hundred a month
But the check came late,
army red tape you see,
This golden (D minor) oppor (F major) tunity
We watched the tube and read
the newspaper
The propaganda of the gas masked (E major) raper
Was the proper slander to
whip up the (F major) hatred
Verse 4
The stage was lit and the light
(E major) s were all faded
The (B minor) pilots in night (E major) vision goggles (F major)
Kuwaited and
Generals (B minor) masturbated
(E major) 'til the fifteenth (F major) two days
later they invaded
Not a single t.v. station
expressed dissension or
Hardly made mention to the cen
sorship (F major) of information
From our kinder and gentler nation
Blinder and (E major) (F major) mentaler retardation
Disorientation
(E major) The (B minor) pi lots said (F major)
their bombs lit Baghdad
Like a Christmas tree
It was the Christian thing to do you see
They didn't mention any casualties
No distinction between the real
And the proxy
Only football analogies
Verse 5
We saw (F major) the bomb hole
We watched the Super Bowl
We saw the scud missile
We watched Bud© commercials
We saw (E major) the yellow ribbons
Saw (F major) pi lots in prison
We never saw films of the dead
at el (B minor) even (F major)
Angela Dav (B minor) is addressed
(F major) the spectators
And shouting above a rumbling
generat (B minor) or said
(E major) If they insist on bring (F major) ing us down
Then let's shut the whole
country down (B minor)
(E major) Marching through the down (F major) town
A hundred thousand became
(F major) participants (E major)
And we heard (F major) the drum (B minor) s of mil
(F major) lions off in the distance (B minor)
Rushing through the cities
Some of them did things
that weren't (F major) so pretty (D minor)
(B minor) Most were there (F major) for primal
scream therapy
News men concentrated
On the negative liked the
jingoists more
Peaceful protesters ended up
On the cutting room floor
Nintendo© casualties of the ratings war
More bombs dropped than in
World War II
On in both Asian invasions,
new (E major) world or (F major) der persua (B minor) sion, (F major)
Business as usual
(C sharp major) For our nation (E major) (F major) (E major)
(F major) Could you imagine a hundred
fifty thousand dead,
The city of Stockton
Coffins locked in when we clocked
in...not to mention
Civilians
The loss of life (E major) on both (B minor) sides
Pushed (F major) the limits of resi
(B minor) lience (E major) (F major)
The scent of blood in our nostrils
Fuel of the fossil land of apostle
The blackness that covered
the sky was (F major) not the only thing
That brought a tear to the eye or
The taste of anger to the (F major) tongues
Of those too young to remember
(B minor) Vietnam
(G major) (F major)
Verse 6
(F major) Is heroin better in a veteran's mind
Than the memory of the
dying lay (E major) ing in a line
(F major) Is it the smell or the shadows
heaving and weeping
That keeps the soldier from sleeping
As he sings the orphan's lullaby (B minor)
(E major) When the sol (A minor) diers put down (F major)
their bayonets
The strings are chained
to the marionettes
Emir of (F major) Kuwait gets back in his jet
We replace the dead with new cadets
Will we hate those who
did the shelling (F major)
Or will we hate those who weren't
willing (F major) to do the killing
When the leaders of the bald
eagles come home to roost (F major)
Will we sing a song of praise
and (F major) indebtedness
For our deliverance from evil
Or will we sing a song (F major) of sadness
For the dreaded debt (F major) this mess delivered
us PEOPLE. (B minor)
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