Chords for Gil Scott-Heron - Washington D.C. (Live)

_ We come from a town that is called Washington DC
But what it [Gm] really is is chocolate city and on Friday [Ab] nights in chocolate [Gm] city
They get busy [F] they get busy and to get [N] fresh and they get the music rolling
So we're gonna roll for you.
This is called rock.
We're [Am] gonna roll.
This is called Washington, [G] DC
Yes, _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [C] put your hands together if you feel [Bb] like you see a little
[G] _ The [C] _ foot just [Bb] automatically tapping
_ _ [E] Everything [C] gonna be [Bb] all right your Indonesia's capital
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_ [D] Symbols [C] _ [F] _ _ [Fm] _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ of democracy end up against the coast
I have some [G] bureaucracy
[Dm] surrounded by
Homey
citizens of poverty
I'm out of [G] sight
[Dm] _ Overlord this deep here evening brother on the night
Morning coming bring the tourists many but [G] next
[F] Afternoon, so the cowboy in the world that never [G] speak
[Dm] It's a [G] massive irony, [Dm] but all the world is seeing
It's the nation's capital Washington DC
[Gm] _ [F] The nation's capital is the nation's [G] capital
Talking about the [C] capital in Washington [Em] DC
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_ _ May not have the middle or the glamour of LA
May not have the history or the intrigue of our [Em] [F] days
When it comes to making music it's gonna make it [Em] new
[Dm] People who just don't [F] make sense and people make it new
_ It's a ball of contradiction
Put it different ways
In the folks who come and go and the ones who got to stay
[G] _ [Dm] It's a massive [G] irony
But [Dm] all the world is [G] seeing
[Dm] It's the nation's capital
It's Washington [Gm] DC
[Dm] See the nation's capital is the nation's capital
[G] Talking about the capital [Dm] in Washington DC
It seems to me
I [G] spent a lifetime
Me [Bb] one night with a ball [Fm] 14 [F] speed
Make me feel like it's always [G] right on time
[Bb] Cuz them people sure know that [C] good to me
[Gm] It didn't [G] make me want
Take [Bb] on you now
_ _ [Dm] It's the nation's capital
It's the nation's capital
[G] Talking about the [C] capital in Washington [D] DC
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Symbols _ _ _ of [G] [Dm] democracy
Stand up against the [G] coast
[Dm] Allies of bureaucracy
Surrounded by a [G] motive
[Dm] Citizens [G] of poverty
[Dm] Are barely out of [G] sight
[F] _ Overlords escape near evening
Brothers on the [G] night
[Dm] Money come and bring the tourists
They never come back
Likes to be a king but makes sad
Laughs at Nelson the cowboy
Making the world a driver's [G] day
[Dm] It's a massive [G] irony
But [Dm] all the world is [G] seeing
[F] It's the nation's capital
It's Washington DC
[G] [F] See the nation's capital
Is the nation's capital
[G] Talking about the [C] capital
In Washington [Dm] DC
_ The nation's capital
[F] Talking about the capital
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[Dm] _ _ _ ♪ So you let it out the capital, and when you do, you say.
[C] ♪ [Fm] Bah, dah-dee-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
[G] _ [Dm] ♪ So no sounding capital, but it's pretty [G] capital.
♪ And when you're done dancing,
♪ Bah-dee-dum-dum-dum [Dm]-dum-dum,
♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum,
♪ Da [G]-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
♪ Hey, dah-dee-dah-dah-dah-dah,
♪ Hey, [Dm] somebody say somebody say,
♪ So no feeling capital, [G] [C] talking about [G] the capital.
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