Bass Culture Chords by Linton Kwesi Johnson

_ _ _ [Em] Music of blood, black rare pain, root that care.
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_ [N] _ _ All ten stops in the bubble and the bounce [G] in the leap and the wait. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] Is the beat of the heart, _ _ _ this pulsing of blood that is a bubbling vase, [Bm] a bad, mad beat, pushing against the wall, the barbed black blood.
And _ [Am] is a holy, passion, _ _ _ like a rightful farm, like a righteous farm, [Bm]
giving off fire like it's madness. _
But out there, _ _ _ _ [Am]
hotter than the heights of fire living heat down volcano core, _ [C] _ _ is the [D] cultural wave, a dreadful deal.
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Spirits rise unreal and rise to underwise, _ _ _ hate and power in a [Bm] farm resembling madness, like violence is the soul.
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Bursting out a sleep shock, _ _ nuclear, bound for harm, [C] wicked.
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Man feel, him hurt confirm, [Am] _
_ man sight _ destruction all around.
_ _ Man [C] turn, [Bm]
love still confirm, and destiny shine light wise.
_ _ So life take [Am] the farm, worship from calm, and hold the way of a deadly storm.
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Culture pulse in high temperature blood, _ [Am] swinging hunger, shattering the tightened hold, all's bold fold, round flesh reveal freedom.
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_ _ _ Bitter cause of [Bm] blues, cause of maggots suffering, cause [D] of blood dry [Am]
pressure.
Yet still breathing love, far [C] more mirror than the sound of sheep chanting loudly.
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_ _ _ Scatter, mutter, shatter, shatter, beat.
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_ For the time is nigh, when passion gather high, when [C] the beat just lash, [Bm] when the wall must smash, when the beat will shift, when the culture alter, _ _ [A#] when [Am] oppression scatter. _ _ _ _ _ _
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