Gun -Gill Scott-Heron Chords

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_ [Ab] Brother man now they're [Fm] living in the ghetto _ [Bb] where the danger's [Fm] so not real. _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] Well [Fm] when he's out [Eb] late at [Bb] night he's got his head on right.
Well I lay you [Ab] nine to five he's walking with steel.
Brother man say he's afraid of gangsters, _
[Bb] _ messing with people [Fm] just for fun.
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_ _ And [Fm] he don't [Eb] want to be next he [Bb] got a family to protect so just [Db] let's keep on and [Cm] see.
_ Everybody [Fm] got a pistol, [Eb] _ _
[F] _ everybody [Fm] got a .45. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] The philosophy [Bb] seem to be at least as near as I can see.
Other folks give up their lives.
I [Fm] give up mine.
This is a violent civilization. _ _
[Bb] This [F] civilization is [Fm] where I am.
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_ _ [Fm] _ Every channel that I stop on got a different kind of cop on [Fm] it.
Still nobody pays for all the same but Saturday night just ain't that special. _ _
[Bb] Yeah I got the [Fm] constitution on the run.
I got the constitution on [Bb]
the _ [Fm] run.
Even though we [Bb] got the right to defend our home, defend our land,
[Ab] God's gonna land to get it in the hand of my son.
Everybody got a pistol, _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Fm] everybody got a .45. _ _
[Bb] _ _ And [Fm] the philosophy [Gm] seem to be at [Bb] least as near as I can see.
When other folks [Db] give up, give up, give up.
I give up, [Gb] I give up.
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I give up, I give up.
Saturday night just ain't that special. _ _
[Bb] _ Freedom to [Fm] be afraid is all you want. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Yes if you don't want to be next, you got a family to protect.
[Ab] Nine out of ten, you got a friend you call God.
Everybody got a pistol, _ _
[F] _ everybody got a [Fm] .45. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ The philosophy [Eb] seem to be [Bb] at least as near as I can see.
When other folks give up, [Db] give up, give up.
_ [E] She [Fm] got a pistol, _ _
[Bb] _ she's supposed to be the NRA.
[Ab] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] Yeah, cause when it's [Bb] time to light up, you know damn well they gonna shine up.
[Ab] Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. _ _ _
[Bb] _ Everybody got [Fm] a pistol.
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_ _ _ [Fm] The philosophy [Eb] seem to be at [Bb] least as near as I can see.
When [Bb] other folks give [Ab] up, give up, give