Chords for Gil Scott-Heron | We Almost Lost Detroit

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This is a song about nuclear power, about safety, or lack of safety, nuclear power.
_ There's an organization called MUSE that may be reforming soon, the Musicians United for Safe Energy.
This is a song that we contributed to their first album, which is called No Nukes.
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It [Dm] stands out on the highway _ [Em] like a creature from [Am] another time.
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It [Dm] inspires the babies' questions.
They say, [Em] what's that?
They ask their mothers [Am] as they ride. _
[Dm] _ Yeah, but no one [Em] stopped to think about the babies [Am] or _ how they [Dm] would survive. _
[Em] And we've [Bm] almost [F] lost Detroit at [Bm] this time.
_ [Dm] _ _ And how would it ever [C] get over?
_ [Dm] _ _ We're losing our [Am] minds.
_ Please welcome Brother Larry McDonald to the stage, please.
The King of Sunshine, Lord's Cousin.
_ And _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ _ just [Dm] 30 miles from Detroit, _ [Em] they built a giant [Am] power station.
And [Em] _ it ticks each [Dm] night as the city sleeps, [Em] _ maybe [Am] seconds from annihilation.
_ [Dm] _ Yeah, but [Em] no one stopped to think about the people [Am] or how they [Dm] would survive. _
[Em] And [Dm] we've [Bm] almost lost [F] Detroit at [Bm] this time.
[Dm] _ _ And how would it [Em] ever get over?
[Dm] Over, _ losing [Am] our minds.
Please welcome Miss Kim George on the keyboards, please.
Sing it in.
_ _ _ _ _ Ed Brady on the guitar, Vernon James on the saxophone and the flutes.
_ Rodney Youngs on the drums, Robert Gordon, the Secretary of Entertainment on the bass. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ The [Dm] Sheriff of Monroe County [Em] is showing up with [Am] disasters on his mind.
_ [Em] _ _ And what [Dm] would Karen Silkwood say to do?
[Em] I mean, if [Am] she was still alive.
_ [Dm] _ Well, when it [Em] comes to people's safety, [E] [Am] money, it really wears down [Dm] every time. _
[C] And we've [Dm] [C] almost [F] lost Detroit at [Bm] this time.
Yeah, [Dm] this time, how [Am] would it ever get over?
[Dm] Over, _ losing [Am] our minds.
_ _ _ _ Oh, _ _ _ _ how much this time's gonna get over.
_ _ I don't know how it's gonna get over.
[G] _ [Am] _ I don't know how it's gonna get over.
_ _ I don't know how it's gonna get over.
[G] _ _ [Am] _ And say to people all over the world, what's up?
Say, no.
Say, to people all over the [G] world, what's up?
Say, [D] no.
[Am] _ I'm gonna talk to some of them.
[F#] Let your hands say, we are.
I'm gonna [Am] talk to some of them. _
Let your hands say, I don't know what you're gonna do. _ _ _
Sometimes, baby, you don't know what you're gonna do.
_ Sometimes, you got to stop.
What you [G] gonna do?
_ _ [Am] Looking at me and [Em] looking at you, it's so cool.
[Am] Made up my mind, say [E] what?
_ _ Made up my mind, I gotta go to work.
_ _ _ Somebody out there got to go to _ [A#] work.
Got too many folks here now to go to work.
[E] _ _ [Gm] Say what you gonna do?
Gonna work for peace.
[Dm] Get [C] out in the streets somewhere and go work for [E] peace.
[Dm] Just [C] like they got [G] folks out [C] there working for war.
_ We got to pull it together, go work for peace. _
_ [F] Say, yeah, [Cm] work.
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[C] Ain't nobody out there unemployed.
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Got a big [C] job up ahead, say, gotta work.
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[E] Everybody [C] we get, we gotta go to work.
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[Em] I [F] don't want to hurt nobody.
[D] You gotta work, you gotta [Gm] work.
I [A] don't want to [G] hurt nobody.
[D] _ _ [C] [F#] Didn't [C] say hurt nobody.
_ Looked in on my heart.
I don't want to hurt nobody.
_ [F#] [D] All the feelings that [Am] I got to work.
_ [C#] _ [D] Got to get [Am] out there and work for peace.
[G] _ [C] _ Everything I ever really wanted. _
_ Everything [Am] I ever really wanted.
I _ just want to go to work.
_ [G] _ [Am] _
[C] This very feeling ain't gonna work.
[Am] I gotta work, I gotta work.
Gotta go to work.
[C] Just sit around and wait.
[A] Sit around [D] and wait.
[F#] Sit around and [G] wait.
Sit around and wait.
[D] This feeling ain't gonna [Am] work.
[C] Ain't got no way.
_ [Am] _ If you really want it, you gotta go to work.
_ _ [D] Everything [C] you ever wanted, had to [D] pay.
Work for peace.
If [C] you really want peace, you gotta go [E] to work.
You gotta work for peace.
Got [C] folks out there, so don't make it more of a lot.
You gotta work for [Dm] peace.
Making a [Gm] whole lot of money, cause if it _ _ _ ain't making, [C] don't care about nobody.
But we do.
If you want to work, [Em] you gotta go to work.
[D] If [C] you do, you know you gotta go [D] to work.
_ Peace [C] ain't coming this way, we ain't got to go to meet [Cm] it.
_ [D] Peace ain't [C] coming this way, we ain't got to go to meet it.
This [D] feeling ain't [D#m] gonna work.
Ain't [Am] got no [C] way.
_ _ [D] If you really [Em] want it, you [C] gotta go to work.
[D] [E] You gotta [D] work for peace.
[C] Everybody out there.
[G#] _ [Am] You gotta [G] work for peace.
Learn to [C] stop what the situation's about to [Am] be.
[G] _ When you sit down by yourself, [Am] you think about peace.
And all the [C] time you know.
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[E] _ [D] [C] As long as I'm walking, you'll be together. _ _
As long as we love. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [D#] As long as we love.
We're working, [C] we'll be together.
[G] I [Cm] would know but you are gotta go to work.
[Am] _ [F#] _ [Am] Ain't no other way, [Gm] gotta go to work.
C tear [F#m] _ _ [G]
up _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Am] the _ _ _ _ _ estánmo
_ You're adding here. _ _
_ _ Appreciate it.
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