• Song:

    Biko Drum

  • Artist:

    Christy Moore

  • Album:

    Unfinished Revolution

(1)      G5                    C5      G5
      As they went home on an Easter Road
          C5                   F5      G5
     On a silent night trying not to show
     C5                  F5        G5
     Who goes where and who goes when
              F5                            C5    G5
     Thinking some day soon they'll get it back again

(2)           G5                    C5       F5
     From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold
     C5               F5        G5
     Little Boy Blue can't be sold
     C5                    F5       G5
     Under tin roof and a plastic wall
              F5                            C5        G5
     Thinking some day soon we re going to leave it all

(chorus)     C5                      G5         F5
     And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
             A5                         F5     G5    
     And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
              G5 
     The Biko Drum
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
         G5    A5 
     The Biko Drum
     F5                  G5  
     Listen to the Biko Drum

(3)  G5                   C5         G5
     Transvaal kids on a Transvaal day
     C5                     F5        G5
     Little by little they show the way
          C5                  F5     G5
     To a city of dreams and solid ground
              F5                         C5    G5
     Thinking some day soon we're gonna come around


(4)  G5                   C5      G5
     Steve's living in a prison cell
     C5                                   F5     G5
     All the friends that know hope he's doing well
          C5                       F5    G5
     Down here they listen to the Biko Drum
          F5                       C5        G5
     Down here they listen to the songs he sung

(chorus)     C5                      G5         F5
     And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
             A5                         F5     G5    
     And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
              G5 
     The Biko Drum
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
         G5    A5 
     The Biko Drum
     F5                  G5  
     Listen to the Biko Drum

(5)  G5                    C5      G5
     Nelson listen to the people sing
     C5                  F5        G5
     Nelson Mandela the people's king
     C5                      F5           G5
     Twenty-five years in a white man's jail
     F5                             C5         G5
     Twenty-five years we couldn't make him say

(chorus)     C5                      G5         F5
     And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
             A5                         F5     G5    
     And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
              G5 
     The Biko Drum
         F5
     The blacks and the coloureds play
         G5    A5 
     The Biko Drum
     F5                  G5  
     Listen to the Biko Drum

(outro ? play 2x)
     F5                  G5    A5
     Listen to the Biko Drum
     F5                  G5    A5
               the Biko Drum
     F5                  G5    A5
     Listen to the Biko Drum
     F5                  G5
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