Chords with lyrics
Key: E 🎸 Intro: A|----7-5-4-----------------------| E|-----------5^^^^^^7^5-3---------| C|-4----------------------4p2h4---| G|--------------------------------| 🎸 Verse 1: E7 Well I'm about to get upset E7 From watchin' my TV E7 Checkin' out the news E7 Until my eyeballs fail to see E7 I mean to say that every day E7 Is just another rotten mess E7 And when it's gonna change, my friend E7 Is anybody's guess 🎸 Chorus: A So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' A Hopin' for the best B Even think I'll go to prayin' B Every time I hear 'em sayin' E7 That there's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day E7 No way to delay that trouble comin' every day 🎸 Verse 2: E7 Wednesday I watched the riot E7 I seen the cops out on the street E7 Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff E7 And chokin' in the heat E7 Listened to reports E7 About the whisky passin' 'round E7 Seen the smoke and fire E7 And the market burnin' down E7 Watched while everybody on his street would take a turn E7 To stomp n' smash n' bash n' crash n' slash n' bust n' burn 🎸 Chorus: A And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' A Hopin' for the best B Even think I'll go to prayin' B Every time I hear 'em sayin' E7 That there's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day E7 No way to delay that trouble comin' every day 🎸 Verse 3: E7 Well, you can cool it, you can heat it E7 Cause, baby I don't need it E7 Take your TV tube and eat it E7 'N all that phony stuff on sports E7 'N all the unconfirmed reports E7 You know I watched that rotten box E7 Until my head begin to hurt E7 From checkin' out the way E7 The newsman say they get the dirt E7 Before the guys on channel so-and-so E7 And further, they assert E7 That any show they'll interrupt E7 To bring you news if it comes up E7 They say that if the place blows up E7 They will be the first to tell E7 Because the boys they got downtown E7 Are workin' hard and doin' swell E7 And if anybody gets the news before it hits the street E7 They say that no one blabs it faster E7 Their coverage can't be beat E7 And if another woman driver E7 Gets machine-gunned from her seat E7 They'll send some joker with a Brownie E7 And you'll see it all complete 🎸 Chorus: A So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' A Hopin' for the best B Even think I'll go to prayin' B Every time I hear 'em sayin' E7 That there's no way to delay E7 That trouble comin' every day E7 No way to delay E7 That trouble comin' every day 🎸 Bridge: E7 Hey, you know something people? E7 I'm not black but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white 🎸 Verse 4: E7 Well I seen the fires burnin' E7 And the local people turnin' E7 On the merchants and the shops E7 Who used to sell their brooms and mops E7 And every other household item E7 Watched a mob just turn and bite 'em E7 And they say it served 'em right E7 Because a few of them are white E7 And it's the same across the nation E7 Black and white discrimination E7 Yellin' "You can't understand me!" E7 'N all that other jazz they hand me E7 In the papers and TV E7 And all that mass stupidity E7 That seems to grow more every day E7 Each time you hear some nitwit say E7 He wants to go and do you in E7 Cause the color of your skin E7 Just don't appeal to him E7 (No matter if it's black or white) E7 Because he's out for blood tonight 🎸 Verse 5: E7 You know we got to sit around at home E7 And watch this thing begin E7 But I bet there won't be many E7 Live to see it really end E7 Cause a fire in the street E7 Ain't like a fire in the heart E7 And in the eyes of all these people E7 Don't you know that this could start E7 On any street in any town E7 In any state if any clown E7 Decides that now's the time to fight E7 For some ideal he thinks is right E7 And if a million more agree E7 There ain't no Great Society E7 As it applies to you and me E7 Our country isn't free E7 And the law refuses to see E7 If all that you can ever be E7 Is just a lousy janitor E7 Unless your uncle owns a store E7 You know that five in every four E7 Just won't amount to nothin' more E7 Gonna watch the rats go across the floor E7 And make up songs about being poor 🎸 Outro: E7 "Blow your harmonica, son!" ************************************ | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off ************************************
