Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Chords

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[E] _ _ _ You will [Em] not be able to stay home, brother.
_ _ _ You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop [E] out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on Stag and skip out [Em] for beer during commercials
because the revolution will not be televised. _ _
_ [B] The [C#m] revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading the chart
by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew to eat hog moths confiscated from the [E] Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
_ _ The revolution [Bm] will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theater and will not
star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. _
The _ _ revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get [Am] rid of the nub.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds [Bm] thinner because the revolution will
not be televised, brother.
[A#] _ There will be no pictures of you and Willie May [G] pushing that shopping cart [A#] down the block
on the dead run or trying to slide that color TV [D#] into a stolen ambulance.
[F] [D#] NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 832 on the 4th from 29th District.
The revolution will not be televised.
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[A#] _ There will be no pictures of pigs [C#m] shooting down brothers on the instant replay.
[Fm] There will be no pictures [C#m] of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being run out of [G] Harlem on a rail with a [C#] brand new process.
There [G#] will be no slow [D#] motion on still [C#] life of Roy Wilkins [C#m] strolling through Watt in a
red, black and green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving for just the proper occasion.
_ _ [G#m] Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies and Who the Bill Trimpson will no longer be so [C#] damn relevant
and women will not care if Dick finally got down the chain on Search for Tomorrow because
black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will [E] not be televised.
_ [Em] _ There will be no highlights on the 11 o'clock news and no pictures of Harry on women liberationists
and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keyes, nor sung by Glenn
Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Inglebert Humperdinck or the rare earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
[G#m] The revolution will not be [N] right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning
or white people.
[C#] You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, the tiger in your tank or the
giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go battle with coke.
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause [F#m] bad breath.
The revolution [C#] will put you in the driver's seat.
[A] The revolution will [G#m] not be televised, will not be [C#] televised, will not be televised, will
not be televised.
The revolution will be no reruns, brothers.
The revolution will be live.
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