Chords for Mischief Brew-Save a City

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_ _ _ _ Beware the _ [Am] tides are rising _ [C] in the city of _ [D] brotherly love.
_ _ [G] The blood red lights were [Am] a flashing _ _ _ as [C] the cellars rose up in [D] a flood. _ _
[Em] And when they drag [D] you from [Am] the depths [C] of mud,
[Em] they beat [G]
you while you [D] were down.
_ And then they toss you in jail [C] for a hundred years.
_ Save a city, _ [D] _ burn [G] it down.
_ _ _ And that's what [A] they said as [C] they tore [D] your home [G] to the ground. _ _ _ _
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And when I was seven [A] in _ suburban [Am] heaven,
[C] the teachers and [A] elders and police, _ _
_ [G] they'd cover _ my ears [A] so I wouldn't hear the [C] gunshots soar through those city [D] _ streets. _
_ [Em] And if anyone [A] questioned the liberty _
[C] bomb or [Em] why the timers [G] were [D] even wound,
_ _ a scolding they'd heard [C] and so [G] we soon learned to save a city, [Dm] you burn [G] it down.
_ And _ that's what [A] they said as [C] they burned [D] their homes [G] to the _ ground. _ _ _
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So many people and so many lives, so many [C] keep silent [Am] so they [A] can survive.
[D] Respect _ [E] slaughtering cops and the [G] politicians [E] they laud,
[G] or the gobbles [Em] will crush down [C] your home and you'll [A] be expected _ to [D]
applaud. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So [G] the crime was a trip to [Am] the market, _ _ [C] a sentence a lifetime [Dm] of hurt.
_ _ _ [G] As she sought through tears her [Am] home of thirty years [C]
reduced to [D] rubble and dirt.
_ _ And [E] she cursed [A] those who would _ approach [C] her and [Em] hold _ [G] papers up [A] to her face
_ and say you should feel blessed to [C] live in the U.S. and not some [Dm] other hellish [G]
place.
_ _ So take heed if you live in [Am] the _ city, when [C] I call you the tourist [D] won't tread.
_ _ [G] And beware if you make [Am] a resistance _ and [C]
choose not to be one [B] of [D] the lead.
_ And [Em] if you're out in [Dm] suburban [A] _
_ [C] gardens don't let [Em] the _ _ [G] landlice keep [D] in your _ head. _
Cause you too could come home [C] to no home or to find [Dm] your family [G] _ dead.
_ Cause they got this dream of [Am] a city _ when [C] they'll come you're ready, [Bm] you're [A] ready.
If you can't be mad [G] just stand up to _ [Am] save your neighborhood.
Fuck [C] the city, [D] _ burn [G]
it down.
[Am] _ Fuck [C] the city, [D] _ burn [G]
it down.
[Am] Fuck [C] the city, _ _ _ [D] _
burn _ _ _ [G]
it _ [A] _ down.
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_ _ _ [D] _ Burn it _ [Am] down. _
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