Chords for Gil Scott-Heron - Gun

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Brother man now they're living in the ghetto _ [Bb] where the danger's [Fm] so not real.
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_ [Fm] Well when he's out [Gm] late at night [Bb] he's got his head on right.
[Ab] I'll lay you 95 he's walking with steel.
Brother man say he's afraid of _ gangsters.
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Messing with people [Fm] just for fun.
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_ _ _ [Fm] He don't [Bb] want to be next he's got a family to protect.
[Fm] So just as he departs he's done.
Everybody got a pistol.
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_ Everybody [Fm] got a .45.
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_ _ [Fm] The philosophers [Bb] seem to be at least as near as I can see.
[Fm] When other folks give up theirs I give up mine.
This is a violent civilization.
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This [Ab] civilization is where I am.
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_ _ [Ab] Every channel that [Bb] I stop on got a different kind of cop on [Fm] it.
Still nobody mentions Uncle Sam but Saturday night just ain't that special.
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Yeah I got the [Fm] Constitution on the run.
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_ _ [Fm] Even though we [Bb] got the right to defend our homes, defend our lives.
[Ab] Everybody got a man to get it in the hand of my son.
Everybody got a pistol.
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Everybody [Ab] got a .45.
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_ _ [Ab] The philosophers [Bb] seem to be at least as near as I can see.
[Fm] When other folks give up theirs I [B] give up mine.
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Saturday night just ain't that special. _ _ _
[Bb] Freedom to be afraid [Ab] is all you want.
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_ _ You [Fm] don't want to [Bb] be next you got a family to protect.
[Ab] Nine out of ten you got a friend. _
_ Everybody got a pistol.
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[Bb] Everybody [Fm] got a .45.
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_ _ _ _ [Fm] The philosophers seem [Gm] to be [Bb] at least as near as I can see.
When [Ab] other folks give up theirs I give up [Db] mine.
[Ab] You got a girl, _ _ [Bb] _
she's supposed to [Fm] be the peace of the NRA.
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_ _ There [Fm] doesn't wait [Bb] in time to light up.
You know damn well they're going to shine up.
[Ab] Everybody, everybody, everybody, [C] _ everybody, [Fm] everybody.
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Everybody _ [Ab] got a pistol.
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_ _ [Ab] The philosophers [Bb] seem to be at least as near as I can see.
[C] When other folks [Ab] give up theirs I give up