Chords for Dastoor [Habib Jalib] by Ammar Rashid

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_ _ This is a song by [N] an old comrade from Pakistan, a poet, by the name of Habib Jalib.
It's called
Dastur and it's about _ _ _ the law, like Dastur literally means constitution.
[A#] So it's about
[B] the constitution, [D#] the law, the idea that [F#] rules are land and how [E] it is something that is not
acceptable [N] to us because it is fundamentally against the people that populate this land.
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[B] This song is about the constitution, [E] the law, the idea that rules are land and how it is something that is not acceptable to _ [C#m] us [B] because it is [E] fundamentally against the people that populate this land.
_ _ _ _ Why do you scare [A] me with [B] the wall [A] of life?
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I [A] _ [C#m] _ _ [B] don't [C#m] believe in the night of oppression and ignorance.
I [E] don't know such a constitution, [A] such a morning without a light.
[B] I don't [C#m] believe it, [E] I don't know it. _ _
_ _ _ The next demand is for those who keep telling us that good days are coming, that everything will be fine. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Flowers are blooming _ [C#m] _
on the branches, _ [E] you say, you say.
[C#m] Where the dead [G#m] are [A] starting to meet, _ [E] you say, you say.
_ Where the hearts [A] are [B] starting to meet, [A] _ _ [E] you _ say.
_ _ I don't believe in this open lie, [C#m] this mind-looting.
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_ [C#m] [E] I don't know such a constitution, such a [C#m] morning without a light.
[B] I don't [C#m] believe it, [E] I don't know it.
You [C#m] have looted [A] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] our [B] peace _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[C#m] _ _ [B] for centuries.
[E] _ [C#m] Now _
[B] _ _ [A] your [E] anger will not be on us.
Why do _ _ [A] you _ [B] become [E] the means of the weak?
[A] _ _ [B] _ [E] You are not the means, [A] if someone [C#m] believes.
But [B] I don't [C#m] believe it, [E] I don't know it.
I don't believe in such a constitution, [C#m] such a morning without a light.
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[C#m] I [E] don't know it.
Everyone sing together.
_ I don't believe in such a constitution, [C#m] such a morning without a light.
_ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ [E] I don't know it.
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_ _ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _
I don't believe in such a constitution, [A] such a morning without a light.
_ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ [E] I don't know it.
I don't believe in such a constitution, [A] such a morning without a light.
[B] I don't [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _
believe [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] it, I [E]
don't know it.
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