Chords for Gil Scott-Heron - Winter in America (Live)

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[B] _ [Gm] _ From the town to the nation, we'd like to do [F] a song for you about the larger picture.
[Fm] _ [B] There's [Gm] only one season lately.
[C] _ _ There [Fm] used to be an agreement between the seasons that they would all come and stay for [D] three months
_ and then go to wherever seasons go, and they're [Fm] not where we are.
_ _ Lately there [G] has been [Gm] no spring, _ no summer, and no [Fm] fall. _
_ Politically [F] and philosophically [Bb] and psychologically, _ [C] there has [G] only been the season [Em] of [Fm] ice.
It is a season of frozen dreams [Bb] and frozen nightmares, a season of frozen [Fm] progress and frozen ideas,
frozen [G] aspirations and [C] inspirations.
They call the season [Fm] winter.
We call the song Winter in [Gm] America. _ _ _
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_ _ [Dbm] And [Fm] from the Indians, _ _ we welcome the [Gm] _ pilgrims,
_ _ _ [Fm] and to the buffalo, _ _ [Ab] they once [Bb] ruled the plain. _
_ _ [Fm] Like the vultures _ _ circling beneath the [Bb] dark clouds, _ looking for [Fm] the rain. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Yes, baby, looking for [Gm] the rain. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Just [F] _ like [Bb] [Fm] the city _ _ _ that's staggering [Gm] on the coastline,
_ _ [C] living in [Fm] a nation _ that just can't take [Bb] much more. _ _
_ Like [Fm] the forest they _ buried beneath the [Bb] highway, _ never [Fm] had a chance to grow.
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_ _ _ _ We never had a chance to [Gm] grow. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ And [Fm] now it's winter. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ [C] Seems like [Bb] _ [Fm] winter in America. _
_ It's _ [Bb] _ _ _
a time [F] when all of [Bb] the _ _ hills are done for the _ _ _ hills.
All [Gm] been betrayed. _ _
_ _ See, [C] people know something's wrong with [Bb] everybody, all [Fm] alone. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ See, _ _ [Fm] it's winter in _ America.
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Truth is there [Bb] ain't no black man in the cold.
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Nobody [C] knows what to [Fm] say. _
Brother, save your soul.
[C] _ Lord knows it's winter [Fm] in America.
_ _ _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] The _ _ _ [Dbm] [Fm] Constitution, _ _ Lord, I know all the [Bb] peace and favor. _
_ And with [Fm] free society, we'll destroy what we've done [Bb] in _ vain.
[C] _ And now [Fm] _ _
democracy is _ [Gm] ragtime on the borders.
_ _ _ Unemployed, [Bb] _ hoping to reclaim. _ _ _ _ _
Yes, it's been a hoping for [Gm] some rain. _
_ _ _ But it [C] just don't look like rain.
And I'm sitting [Fm] around in the _ winter [Bb] melancholy. _ _
_ Watching the [Fm] last ditch of rain that's been [Ab] budding across [Bb] the floor. _ _
_ [Ab] And [G] _ [Fm] I'm peace of mind that built it in our [Gm] dreams and never _ had a [Ab] chance to grow. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ Well, it never had a chance [Gm] to grow. _ _
_ And somebody [C] won't know [Eb] till _ [E] they're in the [Fm] winter. _ _ _
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It's cold, it's like [Fm] winter in America.
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Yes, [F] it's time for all [Bb] of the hills.
People who could help us done better.
Yeah, all _ been [Gm] betrayed. _ _
_ See, _ [C] people know something's wrong.
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_ _ _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ Yes, it feels like [Fm] winter in _ America.
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Truth is [Fm] there ain't _ [Bb] nobody _ [Gm] we can call.
_ But nobody [C] knows what to [Fm] say. _ _
Sisters, save the [Bb] babies. _ _
Yes, [Fm] winter in America. _
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Save, [Bb] save, _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [Fm] save. _ _ _ _
[E] _ [Fm] _ _ It's _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Cm] _ cold, it's [Fm] like winter in America. _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] Yes, it's [D] time for [Fm] all of the hills.
[Bb] Brothers who could help us done better.
Yeah, _ _ they put them [Gm] in jail. _ _ _
Yes, [C] people know something's wrong.
Something's [Fm] wrong with the _ world. _ _
[B] _ [Gm] _ _ Yes, it seems like [Fm] winter in America. _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ The truth is [Bb] there ain't _ nobody we can [Gm] call.
_ But [C] nobody _ knows what [Fm] to say. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ Yes, the truth [Fm] is there's _ [Bb] nobody fighting.
Nobody [Gm] fighting.
Nobody [C] knows, well here's nobody [Fm] _ knows.
What to do, what to [Bb] do.
_ _ Truth [C] is there [Bb] ain't _ nobody fighting.
[Gm] Because _ _ nobody [C] _ knows what to [Gb] _ [Fm] say. _ _ _
Winter in America. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [N] Thank you. _ _
_ Winter in America.
Ron Holloway on the Philly Saxophones.
Thank you very much. _ _