Chords for Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Joanna

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Well, Johanna, she [Eb] runs the country.
She [Bb] runs in Durban and the T-Rans Val. _
She makes a few of her people [Eb] happy.
[Ebm] Oh, she [Bb] don't care about the rest at all.
She's got a system they call [Eb] _ apartheid.
It [Bb] keeps her brother in her subjection.
[F] _
But maybe pressure will make Johanna [Ebm] see how [C] everybody could [Bb] deliver one. _
Oh, give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Hope, Johanna, [Bb] give me hope, [G] Johanna, before the morning [F] comes.
[Bb] Give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Hope, Johanna, [Bb] hope before the morning comes.
I hear she makes all that [Eb] gold and money
to [Bb] buy new weapons in the [F] shape of guns.
While [Bb] every mother in her [Eb] blacks are wept of [Ebm]
tears,
[F] the killing of another [Bb] son, _ sneaking
across all the [Eb] neighbors' borders,
now [Bb] and again having little fun.
[F] _
She doesn't care if the [Eb] fun and games she [Ebm] play
[Bb] is dangerous to everyone.
Oh, give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Give me hope, [C] Johanna, before the morning comes.
Give [Bb] me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Hope before the morning comes. _ _
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She got supporters in [Eb] higher places
who turned [Bb] their heads for the city's son. _ _
[Bb] Johanna give them the [Eb] fancy money.
Oh, [Bb] to tempt anyone who come. _
She even knows how to [Eb] swing opinion in [Bb] every magazine
and the journals.
[F] _
For every bad move that [Eb] is Johanna [Ebm] make,
they got [Bb] a good _ explanation.
Oh, give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
Give [Bb] me hope, [G] Johanna, before the [F] morning comes.
Give [Bb] me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Hope before the morning comes. _
Give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
Give [Bb] me hope, [G] Johanna, before the morning comes.
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Give [Bb] me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Hope before the morning comes. _
Even the preacher who [Eb] works for Jesus,
the [Bb] archbishop who's a peaceful man, _
together say that the [Eb] freedom fighters will
_ [C] overcome the [Bb] very strong. _
I want to know if you're blind, [Eb] Johanna.
If _ [Bb] you want to hear the sound of [F] drum, _
can't [Bb] you see that the fight [Eb] is turning?
Oh, don't make [C] me wait till the morning comes.
[Bb] Oh, give me hope, [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
Give [Bb] me hope, Johanna, [G] before the morning [F] comes.
Give [Bb] me hope, Johanna.
[Eb] Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Hope before the morning comes. _
Give me hope, Johanna.
Give [Eb] me hope, Johanna.
Give [Bb] me hope, _ [C] Johanna, before the [F] morning comes.
Give [Bb] me hope, _ [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
[Bb] Hope before the morning comes. _
Give me hope, _ [Eb] Johanna.
Give me hope, Johanna.
Give [Bb] me hope, Johanna, [F] before the morning comes.
Give [Bb] me hope, Johanna.
[Eb] Give me hope, Johanna.