Barclay James Harvest - African Nights

      
 
 VERSE 1
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             E              
 Through the eyes of a child
 
 There's no wrong or right
    A             
 No reason to hate
 
 No need for a fight
    E              
 No color, no creed
    A          G    
 No malice, no greed
                          A  
 Till the child becomes a man
 
 E G A E 
     
 E                   
 Give up your freedom
 D                    
 Hand back your rights
 A                         
 Then change your color now
        C              
 You're black not white
              A                       C     
 And there'll never be a piece of the action
               E      
 Now you're an African

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 VERSE 2
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 E                  D                
 Forget beliefs and swallow your pain
 A                       
 You're just a number now
     C              
 And Boy's your name
            A                        C     
 And you'll never get a piece of the action
              E          
 Now you're a working man

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 PRE CHORUS
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 E        A                   E   
 African, Asian, it's all the same
 E             A        
 Brown, black, Caucasian
              E   
 It's all the same
 E            A            
 Slave labor, working class
             E   
 What's in a name
 G                    A     
 Far left, far right, center
                 E    
 It's power they crave
 
 E C E 
    
 E A G A E 
      

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 CHORUS
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     E                    
 The politics of Apartheid
     D                
 The politics of shame
     A                         
 The cold abuse of human rights
    C                  
 Of torture and of pain
     A                      
 Are only part of the action
 C               E      
  When you're an African
     E                      
 The politics of making more
     D                
 The politics of greed
     A                    
 The cold abuse of poverty
    C                    
 To keep your labor cheap
     A                      
 Are only part of the action
 C              E          
  When you're a working man

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 PRE CHORUS
 ***********
 E        A                   E   
 African, Asian, it's all the same
 E             A        
 Brown, black, Caucasian
              E   
 It's all the same
 E            A            
 Slave labor, working class
             E   
 What's in a name
 G                    A     
 Far left, far right, center
 G                    A     
 Far left, far right, center
 C                    D     
 Far left, far right, center
                 E    
 It's power they crave

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 SOLO
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 E A C E A 
      

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 CHORUS
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     E                      
 The politics of buying arms
 
 When there's no food to eat
     D                       
 The politics of digging gold
 
 Instead of planting seeds
     C                                  
 The leader with his private golf course
 
 And his flashy cars
      A                                   
 Sits playing with his diamond wrist watch
 
 While the people starve
     E                        
 The politics of shooting down
 
 A plane that brings relief
    D                          
 By fat men playing power games
 
 Who've got enough to eat
     C                      
 The politics of racial hate
 
 The politics of war
     A                             
 The men who sell the guns have fun
 
 While we all count the score

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 BRIDGE
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 C                    
 One, two, three, four
 D                  
 Thousands, millions
 C            D           
 People dying just to keep
             E     
 Them in the action

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 VERSE 3
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             A            
 Through the eyes of a man
         D                      
 There's wrong and there's right
   A             
 A reason to hate
 
 There's need for a fight
         E                   
 There's color, there's creed
          A              G    
 There's malice, there's greed
                          A  
 When the child becomes a man