African chords by Barclay James Harvest (Ver. 2)

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                         Song - African
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                       Face To Face (1987)
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                       Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard



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
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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
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



ENJOY..........