Bum Bum Bum chords by Cass Mccombs

Chords with lyrics

From the album 'Mangy Love'

Introduction:

FF G+G A minorAm C majorC X6

Verse 1:
FF   G+G        A minorAm
 The white dog of the farm still breeds
    C majorC
She's off her leash
    FF
To tear flesh and teach
G+G    A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 2:
  G+G           A minorAm
You think you've heard it all before
   C majorC
Well, here's once more
   FF
We're all at war
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 3:
    G+G          A minorAm
Blood in the streets, our eternal river
 C majorC
I know the killer
  FF
He counts my silver
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 4:
   G+G        A minorAm
They ambushed them behind the reeds
   C majorC
These are our seeds
   FF
White dog still breeds
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Bridge 1:

G+G A minorAm C majorC FF G+G A minorAm C majorC

G7G7
 They say, “Buy when there's blood in the streets
G7G7
Even if the blood is your own”
      G7G7
So they employed men far away
  G7G7
To turn against their home
Bb majorBb
 Centuries in the distant mist
A minorAm       D MajorD  Dsus2Dsus2 DmDm D MajorD FF
 But it's not a dream

Verse 5:
    G+G          A minorAm
No, it ain't no dream, it's all too real
  C majorC
How long until
       FF
This river of blood congeals?
G+G    A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 6:
  G+G        A minorAm
And eulogies poured from the stage
  C majorC
But nothing changed
  FF
The dog was caged
G+G    A minorAm   C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 7:
  G+G               A minorAm
And white bread artists won't even look at you
     C majorC
When they know it's true
     FF
What you gonna do?
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Bridge 2:
G7G7
Thought I heard some woman screaming
   G7G7
And I sat up in my bed
   G7G7
And I went over to the window
   G7G7
And I saw him in the cold street, lying dead
Bb majorBb
  Oh, please tell me, you academics
A minorAm              D MajorD     Dsus2Dsus2  DmDm Dsus4Dsus4 FF
  How do you wake up from a non-dream?

Verse 8:
    G+G          A minorAm
No, it ain't no dream, it’s all too real
  C majorC
How long until
       FF
This river of blood congeals?
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 9:
    G+G      A minorAm
Sent a letter to my congressman
   C majorC
The Ku Klux Klan
    FF
From my pierced hands
G+G     A minorAm   C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 10:
   G+G        A minorAm
They sent me back an Apple phone
 C majorC
A augmentedA fine-hair comb
  FF
And a bell tolled
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC FF
 Bum bum bum

Verse 11:
  G+G            A minorAm
The phone rang once and the line went dead
  C majorC
All blood runs red
   FF
White pups still bred
G+G     A minorAm  C majorC  FF  G+G
 Bum bum bum

Outro:

A minorAm C majorC  FF G+G X5

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