• Song:

    Hockey Night In Afghanada

  • Artist:

    The Consumer Goods

Hockey Night in Afghanada by the Consumer Goods from the album The Anti-Imperial Cabaret (2008)
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Capo 4 (chords are relative to capo)


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Fuck Don Cherry!  There, I said it.  
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How long are we gonna let it be okay to turn hockey skates into 
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recruitment gates for the ar__my?  
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"Beautiful boys" on the screen, 
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white faces shaved so smooth and clean - noble hearts in the noble arts of 
F           Am  G
war and occupa__tion.  

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There's nothing about pucks in nets, skates on ice, sticks on skin that 
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says "it's okay if some brown person loses a limb."  
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There's nothing about Ron MacLean, the CBC, hits from behind that 
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say "it's alright to bomb a few foreigners from the sky."  

(solo)
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Fuck the anthems that celebrate the 
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ass we kick on a foreign stage - the only "Leaf" I see is losing 6-3 and that's 
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fine with me, oh I know... 
           C                    G
it seems a harmless thing as we stand and sing, but in 
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Afghanada it's another thing.  There's no peace to keep when you ride up in a jeep and you 
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blow the bleep out of some children. 

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There's nothing about pucks in nets, skates on ice, sticks on skin that 
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says "it's okay if some brown person loses a limb."  
                 F           G           C       C/Am   Am
There's nothing about Ron MacLean, the CBC, hits from behind that 
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say "it's alright to bomb a few foreigners from the sky."  

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