Chords for Kris Kristofferson and Chiwoniso Maraire - The circle + The voice of conscience (2001) Mix

[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Who killed this woman, this artist, this mother?
Who broke the candle and snuffed out her [A] life?
_ _ Along with her husband and wounded her children
And sauntered away like a [D] beast in the night.
_ _ Not I, said the soldier, I'd just followed orders.
It was my duty to do my job [A] well.
Not I, said the [E] leader, [A] who ordered the slaughter.
I'm saddened it happened, but their [D] wars held.
_ Not us, said the others who heard of the horror.
Turned a cold shoulder on all that [A] was done.
In _ all the confusion, a single conclusion.
[Em] The circle [D] of sorrow has only begun. _ _ _ _
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Murray is ten years old.
She found a new path as she came home from school [A] one day. _ _
Suddenly the ground exploded where she stood.
And when she awoke, they said she'd never [D] walk again. _
_ Louis is a child soldier. _
Had a machete in his hand by the age [G] of [A] thirteen.
_ They brainwashed his system and death is his mission.
He feels no emotion as his [D] work begins.
_ [G] Sweet, _ [D] sweet Imelda.
_ [G] Her innocence was stolen [D] on a cold September [A] night. _
Now she's a [Em] girl [A] with a baby to [Em] raise.
[A] And for them to survive, she knows that [D] she must fight. _
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_ _ _ _ [G] [D] And in Argentina, _ _ _ _ _ straight to the circle on Sunday.
_ _ Down through [G] the [A] canyons they come.
The names of their mothers and daughters.
_ The names of their [D] fathers and sons.
_ _ Stolen away with no warning.
_ _ Never to [Am] ever [G] return.
_ _ _ On El Rio [D] del Muerto, _ _ [A] _ [Em] all the bridges [D] are burned.
_ _ [Em] Los _ _ desaparecidos.
_ _ Lost [G] in the darkness [D] alone.
_ [G] _ [A] Gone from the face of the earth with no trace left behind.
And the mark with [D] a stone.
_ _ [Em] And the faces of those soldiers.
_ [G] Only _ _ [Em] survivors [D] recall.
_ [A] _ _ But for [Em] the [A] pain and the heartbreak, _ _ did they [G] matter [D] at all? _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ [A] _ _ [G] Mmm_ Mmm_
[A] Mariwe _ Jino Di Rua Ta Moyo
Ku Shupika Kwe Wa Mwe Wa Kuwa [D] Sipano _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Mmm_
Sira Titein [Em] Sira Ineguara
_ Shua Baba [D] Jino Di Rua Ta Moyo
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_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ And the circle of [Em] sadness _ grows with each [D] passing day
_ [G] [A] That [Em] we look aside [A] and defend [Em] our own lives
[A] Shutting the voice [C#] of conscience [D] deep inside
_ [Bm] _ [G] _ And the circle [Em] of sadness _ grows with [G] each passing [D] day
_ [A] That we look aside [G] [A] and defend [Em] our own lives
[A] Shutting the voice [G] of reason [C#] [D] deep inside _ _ _ _ _
Slowly _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ the circle of sadness _ _ spins in the plaza [A] mayor
_ _ _ Lonesome remains of the madness and pain in a world gone insane in a [D] war
_ And [G] the song of the broken survivors _ _ dancing alone in [D] the dark
_ [F#m] The [A] silence of los olvidados _ _ _ like a [Bm] hole in [D] the heart
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[Em] _ _ [G] Los desaparecidos lost in the darkness [D] alone
_ _ [F#m] [A] Gone from the face of the earth with no trace left to hide them part of the [D] stone
_ And [G] the face of [Am] los [G] olvidados _ only _ survivors [D] recall
_ _ [A] But for the pain and the heartbreak _ _ _ [C#] they matter [D] at all _ _ _ _ _ _
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