Chords
Biko Drum

Key: C

Introduction:

         Am       F                                       G 
        Wait, listen to the Biko drum! (4x)
                             G                             C             G 
        And they went home on an Easter road,
                     C                                     F             G 
        on a silent night tryin' not to show
           C                                   F                 G 
        who goes where and who goes when,
                             F                                                       C         G 
        thinkin' some day soon they'll get it back again.
                               G                                     C               G 
        From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold,
           C                                 F               G 
        little black baby can't be sold,
           C                                       F             G 
        under tin roof and a plastic wall,
                             F                                                     C             G 
        thinkin' someday soon we're goin' to leave it all.
                   C                                           Em             F 
And the renegades sing all the renegade songs,
                 Am                                                             Em 
and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong.
             F                                                                         G 
The blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Drum,
                   F                                                               G       Am       F         G 
all the blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Dru..........m.
           G                                       C               G 
        Transvaal Kids on a Transvaal day,
           C                                           F             G 
        little by little they show the way
                     C                                   F           G 
        to a city of dreams and solid ground,
                             F                                               C         G 
        thinkin' someday soon we're gonna come around.
             G                                             C         G 
          Steve, he's livin' in a prison cell,
                               C                                                 F         G 
        all the friends that know hope he's doin' well.
                     C                                             F         G 
        Down here they listen to the Biko drum,
                       F                                           C               G 
        down here they listen to the songs he sung.
                   C                                         Em               F 
And the renegades sing all the renegade songs,
                 Am                                                             Em 
and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong.
             F                                                                         G 
The blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Drum,
                   F                                                               G       Am       F         G 
all the blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Dru............m.
         Am       F                                       G 
        Wait, listen to the Biko drum! (2x)
           G                                       C           G 
        Nelson listen to the people sing,
           C                                     F               G 
        Nelson Mandela, the people's king.
             C                                             F                   G 
        Twenty-seven years in a white man's jail,
             F                                                         C               G 
        twenty-seven years we couldn't make him say.
                   C                                         Em               F 
And the renegades sing all the renegade songs,
                 Am                                                             Em 
and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong.
             F                                                                         G 
The blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Drum,
                   F                                                               G       Am       F         G 
all the blacks and the coloreds play the Biko Dru............m.
         Am       F                                       G 
        Wait, listen to the Biko drum ! (4x)