Chords for Gil-Scott Heron-Johannesburg (live,UK Freedom,1988)

[N] [Em] Is everybody ready now?
[G] Anybody know where to come in?
Solid.
One, [Eb] two.
Now you know [C] what to do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Get on up, y'all.
Get on up.
Say it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I said, what's the word?
_ I'm gonna have to hit pay.
I'm gonna hit it pay. _ _ _ _
[Cm] I'm gonna hit pay.
_ I'm gonna hit pay.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm gonna hit [Cm] pay.
You tell me that I'm gonna go _ hard
and find another [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ way.
And we don't [Cm] know for sure
cause the news be getting up in our [C] head. _ _ _
Yes, I hate it when
the [Dm] good die for him.
[G] But I'm very
serious, it's just wrong.
And [Cm] I'm so sorry, what's the word?
_ I'm gonna [C] hit pay.
I'm gonna hit pay.
_ A lot of people [Bb] talking, they saying,
what [C] I wanna hear, what's the word?
_ [F] I'm gonna hit pay.
[C] I'm gonna hit pay.
I'm gonna hit pay. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] Tell me that I'm gonna go hard
_ _ _ [C] sometimes. _
_ _ _ And may that
be the news, or what they need to know.
We're on the inside, full time.
Yeah, [F] now
sometimes just a [Dm] friend _
misunderstands it.
_ [G] _ _ I'm gonna hit pay.
I'm gonna _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [F] hit pay.
[C] I'm gonna hit pay.
I'm gonna hit pay. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] I'm gonna _ _ _ [C] hit pay. _ _
I'm gonna hit pay.
I know that they're
struggling over there,
but they're not free from [Em] here.
But we're not out of here.
Yeah, [Cm] but we're gonna go hard.
We're gonna just be struggling here.
Cause we wanna [G] be free.
And just wanna be free, free, free.
Let's go, [C] man. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Just _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] keep it here.
_ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
just [F] wanna go hard. _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Tell me
that I'm gonna go hard
_ _ sometimes. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ And may that
be the news, or what [Cm] they need to know.
We're on the inside, full time.
Yeah, [F] now
I hate it when they burn [Dm] down. _
_ [C] But I'm not seen as distant.
Go ahead.
Sometimes everyone's too [Bb] ahead.
[C] So what's too ahead?
So what's too ahead?
[Cm] So what's too [Am] ahead?
[C] So what's too ahead?
_ So what's too ahead?
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
So _ _ _ what's too ahead?
Los Angeles, New York, New York,
New _ _ York,
So what's too ahead?
_ [C] So what's too [F] ahead?
[C] So what's too ahead?
_ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh my god.
Oh my god. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
You're happy.
[C] _ You're happy.
[F] You wish that I could
[C] tell _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ you about [Cm] [C] this,
the bottom of my heart.
[Cm] And it's Jonathan, [Bb] _ _ [F] it's Jonathan.
[Bb] And I'm saying, [B] man, what's the word? _
What's the word?
[Cm] _ _ [C] What's the word?
What's the word?
God bless you.
God bless you.
God bless you.
God bless you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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