King Heroin Chords by James Brown

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[Bb] Ladies and gentlemen, _ _ fellow Americans, _ _ _ lady Americans, _ _ _ [Ebm] this is James Brown.
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I want to talk to you about one of our [F] most deadly _ _ [Bb] killers _ _ [Db] in the country [Ebm] today.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Bb] I had a dream the other night and I was sitting in my living room, _ _ [F] I was off [Bb] to sleep, so
I started dreaming.
_ I dreamed I walked in a [Fm] place and _ saw [Bb] a real strange, weird object standing up talking
to the people and I found out it was hair, _ _ that deadly drug that go in your vein.
He said, _ I came to this country without a [Db] passport.
_ [Ebm] Ever since then, I've been hunted and [Bbm] sought. _
_ _ [Ebm] My little white grains are nothing but [Bb] waste, _ [Db] soft and deadly [Ebm] and bitter to taste.
_ _ But I'm a [Bb] world of power [Bbm] _ and [Ebm] all know it's true.
[F] _ Use [Bb] me once and you'll know it.
_ _ [Ebm] _ I [Gb] can make a mere schoolboy forget [Bbm] his books.
_ I can make a world famous beauty neglect her looks. _ _
I can make a [Ebm] good man forsake his [Eb] wife and agree to man the [Bbm] prison for the rest of his [Ebm] life.
_ I [Eb] can make a man forsake his [Bbm] country and flag. _
_ [Eb] Make a girl sell her body [Bbm] for a five dollar bag. _ _
Some [Eb] think my adventures are [F] joy and a thriller, but I'll put a gun in your hand and make you a villain.
_ [Ebm] In cellophane bags I found my way, to heads of state, to children at play.
[Eb] I [Bb] find ass in China, rat in Japan.
[Bbm] I'm respected in Turkey and I'm [Ebm] legal in Siam.
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I take my addicts and make them steal, [Ebm] borrow, beg.
_ [Bbm] Then they search for a vein in the arm or the leg.
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So be you Italian, _ _
[F] Jewish, _ _ _ [Bb] black or mixed.
_ I can make the [F] most virile of men forget their sex. _
[Bb] _ _ So now, so now my [Ebm] man, you listen.
_ You'll do your [Bb] best _ to keep up your habit _ _ until you're arrested. _
Now the police have taken you from under my [Ebm] wing. _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Do you think they dare to [Ebm] fire me, I-O-M-K? _
[Bbm] _ _ Now, you must lie [Ebm] in that county jail _
[Bb] where I can't get to you [Db] by a visitor [Ebm] or mail.
So squirm [Bb] with discomfort, wiggle and [Db] cough. _
_ [Ebm] _ Six days of madness, [Bb] _ _ _ and you might [Ebm] throw me off.
_ Lust me [Bbm] in name, defy me in speech, but you [Ebm] pick me up right [F] now if I were in your [Bb] reach.
_ All through your sentence, you become [Ebm] resolved to your fate. _
Hear or not, [Bbm] young man or woman, [F] I'll be waiting at the gate.
_ Now don't be [Bb] afraid, don't run, I'll [Bbm] not chase.
[Eb] Sure my name is [Bb] Heroin, you'll be [Eb] back by taste.
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[F] Behold, you're hooked.
_ Your [Eb] foot is in the stirrup.
[Bbm] And [Eb] make _ _ [F] haste, mount the steed, [Bbm] _ [Eb] and ride him well.
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For the white horse of Heroin _ [Eb] will ride [F] you to [Bbm]
hell.
_ _ To hell.
[Ebm] _ Will ride [Bb] you to hell _ until [Ebm] you are dead. _
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[Bb] Dead, brother.
_ _ Dead.
_ [Ebm] This is a revolution of the [Bb] mind.
Get your mind [Db] together and [Ebm] get away from drugs. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ That's the man. _
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