(Ooh, can't stop the tears!) Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight; Intro (We've been suffering these long, long-a years) Em Bm Em Bm Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight /++++/++++/++++/++++ (Will you say cheer?) Em Bm E Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight /++++/++++/++++/++++ Am Dm Am Give me the food and let me grow; /++++/++++/++++/++++ Let the roots man take a blow. Am Dm Am All them drugs gonna make you slow; /++++/++++/++++/++++ It's not the music of the ghetto.
Am Dm Am Am/E Am/G We gonna be burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
This morning I woke up in a curfew; (To survive, yeah!) Dm E Am Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight; O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah! (Save your babies' lives) Dm Am Burning all pollution tonight; Could not recognize the faces standing over me; (Pollution ... ) Dm E Burning all illusion tonight They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh! (Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!) How many rivers do we have to cross, Burning and a-looting tonight; Before we can talk to the boss? Eh! Burning and a-looting tonight; All that we got, it seems we have lost; Burning all pollution tonight. We must have really paid the cost. (That's why we gonna be) E Am Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight; e-|--------------------0-------- (Say we gonna burn and loot) B-|--------------------1-------- Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight; G-|--------------------2-------- (One more thing) D-|--2--3--2--0--------2-------- Burnin' all pollution tonight; A-|--------------3--2--0-------- (Oh, yeah, yeah) E-|----------------------------- Burnin' all illusion tonight. Am Am/G Bm Em
Oh, stop them!
Give me the food and let me grow; Let the Roots Man take a blow. All them drugs gonna make you slow now; It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!