Guitar chords Biko Drum

Key:  C

        
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)