Chords for Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Great Insohreckshan 1984

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_ It was in April 1981, when the Nadi Kebele, the [C] president of the Netherlands, [Em] passed the
Constitution _ _ _ and it spread all over the nation.
It was truly a disastrous [A] time.
It [Em] was the end of the year and I wish I had been there when the Red and White power was
pushed to the East Bound and when we mashed up the working man.
_ _ _ _ If you don't let them understand, that will not take them over the democracy.
And when we check out the ghetto break line, the pioneer is the one who is not afraid.
If the religious are revealing themselves, they will not talk about the power and the glory.
They will not talk about the burden and the weight.
They will [Bb] _ _ [A] not _ _
_ [Em] _ talk about the truth.
So, _ I know that in the [A] sense that we are getting marred.
You [E] saw it was sometime in the war.
You [Em] saw it was sometime in the war. _ _ _ _
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You saw it was sometime in the war.
You saw it was sometime in the war.
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_ [A] _ Every [Em] rebel joins a rebel in their story. _
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_ [A] They say [E] we're born dumb, that's why we're born deaf.
We're born dumb, that's why we're born deaf.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ [A] [C] We're not a grown man, we're a teenage bitch.
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