King Heroin Chords by James Brown

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Ladies and gentlemen, _ _ [Ebm] fellow Americans, _ _ lady [Db] Americans, _ _ _ [Ebm] this is James Brown.
[Bbm] _ [Eb] I want to talk to you about one of our [Ab] most deadly [Gb] _ _ [Db] _ _
killers in the country today. _
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Gb] I had a [Db] dream the other night, and I was sitting in my living room, _ just goes off to sleep,
so I start to dreaming.
_ [Ab] I dream [Ebm] I walked in a place and _ saw a real strange, weird object standing up talking
to the people, and I found out it was [Db] herb, _ that deadly drug that go in your vein.
He said, _ _ I came to this country without a passport.
_ _ [Ebm] Ever since then, I've been [Db] hunted and sought. _
_ _ My [Ebm] little white grains are nothing but waste, _ [Db] soft and deadly and bitter [Ebm] to taste.
_ _ But I'm a world of [Bbm] power, _ _ and all know it's true.
_ [Db] Use me once, and you'll know it too.
_ [Ebm] _ I [Gb] can make a mere [Bbm] schoolboy forget his books.
_ I can make a world famous beauty neglect her [Ebm] looks. _ _
I can make a good man forsake his [Db] wife, send a greedy man to prison [Eb] for the rest of his life.
_ _ [F] I can make a man [Bbm] forsake his country and flag. _
_ Make [Eb] a girl sell her body [Bbm] for a five dollar bag. _ _
Some think my [Ebm] adventures are joy and a thriller, [Bbm] but I'll put a gun in your hand and make you a killer.
_ [Ebm] In cellophane bags, I found my way.
[Db] To heads of [Eb] state, to [Db] children at play.
_ [Ebm] I financed in China, ran in Japan.
[Bbm] I'm respected in Turkey, and I'm legal in [Ebm] Siam. _ _ _
I take [Bbm] my addicts and make them steal, [Db] borrow, [Ebm] beg.
_ Then they search [Bbm] for a vein in the arm of the lady.
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[Bbm] So be you Italian, _
_ [Ebm] Jewish, _ _ _
[Bbm] black, or mixed.
_ I can make the most well of [Ebm] men forget their sex.
_ [Db] _ _ So now, so now my [Ebm] man, you must _ do your [Db] best to keep up your habits _ _ [Ebm] until you're arrested.
[Bbm] _ [Db] Now the police have taken you from under my [Ebm] wing. _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ Do you think they dare to fire [Ebm] me, I, who am king?
_ _ [Db] _ Now, you must lie [Ebm] in that county jail _ where [Db] I can't get to you by a visitor or [Ebm] mail. _ _
So squirm [Db] with discomfort, wiggle and cough.
_ _ [Ebm] Six days of madness, [Db] _ _ _ and you might throw [Ebm] me off. _
Bless me in name, [Db] defy me in speech, _ but you [Ebm] pick me up right now if I were in [Bb] your reach.
[Db] _ _ All through your sentence, you become [Ebm] resolved to your fate. _
Hear or [Db] not, young man or woman, I'll [E] be waiting at the gate. _
Don't be [Ebm] afraid, don't run, I'll not chase.
Sure my name is [Bb] heroin, and you'll be [Eb] back for a taste.
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Behold, you're hooked.
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[F] [Ebm] Your foot is in the stirrer, [Db]
[Eb] and make _ _ [F] haste, mouth [Ebm] asteeth, and ride him well. _ _ _ _
[Bbm] For the white horse of heroin _
[Eb] will ride [Gb] you to [Bbm] hell.
_ _ To [Ab] hell.
[Eb] _ [Ebm] Will ride [Abm] you to hell _ until [Ebm] you are _ dead.
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Dead, [Ab] brother. _ _
Dead.
_ [Ebm] This is a revolution of the mind.
[Db] Get your mind together, and get away [Ebm] from drugs. _
_ _ [Db] _ That's how it is.
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