An Interlude Beginning To Take It Back chords by Chumbawamba

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
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Verse 1:

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Words to describe Nicaragua of old
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Cash crops and hunger and US control
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Coffee and sugar on company land
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Made to supply what the boss would demand

Pre-Chorus 1:
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Then one July morning in Seventy-Nine
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Nicaragua decided to leave it behind


Chorus:
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And the people are learning to take back their lives
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As the country will change, Sandinista survives


Verse 2:
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Women are winning what they've never known
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The power to organize outside the home
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Starting to find what is equal and fair
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Ensuring that this revolution is shared


Pre-Chorus 2:
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Regaining lost chances, demanding much more
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Running the factories, fighting the war


Chorus:
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And the people are learning to take back their lives
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As the country will change, Sandinista survives


Verse 3:
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Nobody claims that it's over and done
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There's too much depends on enlistment and guns
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And raising their children and filling their plates
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And chasing the Contras to Washington State


Pre-Chorus 3:
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The Yankee conspiracy thrown to the ground
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That's where the spirit of change can be found


Chorus:
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And the people are learning to take back their lives
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As the country will change, Sandinista survives