White Russian Chords by Marillion

White Russian by Marillion

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Key: Cm
Tuning: E A D G B E

Intro:

Cm F Ab Cm F Ab Cm
 
Cm               Ab        F        Ab
Where do we go from here?
Cm               Ab        F        Ab
Where do we go from here?
Cm               Ab        F        Ab
Where do we go from here?
Cm               Ab        F        Ab
Where do we go from here?
 
Cm Ab F Ab Cm Ab F Ab Cm Ab F
 
Verse 1:
Cm                            Abmaj7
They boarded up the synagogues
Cm             F            Fm
Uzis on a street corner
Cm                         Abmaj7
You can't take a photograph
Cm         F          Fm
Of uzis on a street corner
Cm                   Abmaj7
The DJ resigned today
     Cm             F         Fm
They wouldn't let him have his say
Cm                              Abmaj7
Surface scratched where the needles play
Cm          F         Fm
Uzis on a street corner
G Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb
 
Refrain:
Gm               Eb        Gm
Where do we go from here?
 
Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb
 
Verse 2:
Cm                    Abmaj7
 Terror in the Rue de St. Denis
F7                     Ab
Murder on the periphery
Cm                           Abmaj7
Someone else in someone else's pocket
F7                                   Ab
Christ knows I don't know how to stop it
   Cm                  Abmaj7
Lay poppies at the cenotaph
F7                              Ab
The cynics can't afford to laugh
Cm                       Abmaj7
I heard in on the telegraph
        F7                   Abmaj7
There's Uzis on a street corner
 
Gm Eb Gm
 
Refrain:
                          Eb       Gm       Eb Gm Eb Gm
Where do we go from here?
                 Eb        Gm      Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb
Where do we go from here?
 
Bridge:
Bbsus2                      Bbm                         Bbsus2 Bbm
The more I see, the more I hear, the more I find fewer answers
Bbsus2                     Bbm                 Bbsus2             Bbm
I close my mind, I shout it out but you know it's getting harder
Bbm
To calm down, to reason out, to come to terms with what it's all about
Bbm
I'm uptight, can't sleep at night, I can't pretend everything's alright
Bbm
My ideals, my sanity, they seem to be deserting me
Bbm                                                       Gm
But to stand up and fight I know we have six million reasons
 
Cm Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb
 
Verse 3:
Cm                            Ab
They're burning down the synagogues
F                     Ab
Uzis on a street corner
Cm                      Ab
The heralds of the holocaust
F                     Ab
Uzis on a street corner
Cm                            Ab
The silence never louder than now
    Cm                 Ab
How quickly we forgot our vows
    Cm                       Ab
This resurrection we can't allow
F                      Cm
Uzis on a street corner
 
Gm Eb Gm
 
Refrain:
Gm                    Eb                Gm        Eb Gm Eb
Where do we go from here?
Gm                 Eb          Gm           Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb
Where do we go from here?
 
Fm         Bbsus4        Fm        Bbsus4
 
Verse 4:
      Fm                           Bbsus4
We buy fresh bagels from the corner store
          Fm                     Bbsus4
Where swastikas are spat from aerosols
  Fm                                      Bbsus4
I sit in the bar sipping iced White Russian
               Fm                     Bbsus4
Trying to score but nobody's pushing
Fm                         Gm7
And everyone looks at everyone's faces
Fm                           Gm7
Searching for signs and praying for traces
     Db          Eb
Of a conscience in residence
       Db                                        Eb
Are we sitting on a barbed wire fence
 
                Fm            Eb           Fm
Racing the clouds home
            Db          Eb Db Eb
Racing the clouds home
 
Outro:
   Fm                  Eb
We place our faith in human rights
            Fm                        Eb
In the paper wars that tie the red tape tight
  Db                  Eb                 Db               Eb
I know that I would rather be out of this conspiracy
            Fm          Eb
In the gulags and internment camps
Fm                   Eb
Frozen faces in nameless ranks                 
  Db                         Eb     Db                  Eb
I know that they would rather be standing here beside me
           Fm            Eb
Racing the clouds home
                Fm            Cm
Racing the clouds home
             Db                    Eb      Abmaj7
You can shut your eyes, you can hide it away
      Db                    Eb
It's gonna come back another day
Fm                          Eb
Racing the clouds home
       Fm                          Eb  Db   Eb7  Db  Eb7
Are we racing the clouds home?
                Fm
Racing the clouds home

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