Chords for Linton Kwesi Johnson - Five Nights of Bleeding (Poet and The Roots)

[N] _ [Ab] _ _ Madness, [A] _ [Eb] madness, _ [G] _ madness [Eb] tight on the heads of the rebels.
The [C] bitterness erupts [G] like a hot glass.
[Am] Broke glass.
The [G] ritual of blood on the burning,
_ _ served by a golden _ [Am] enticing.
_ [G] Five knives of furrow on the [C] bleeding.
_ _ [G] Broke glass.
Old [C] blades so sharp of the [G] eyes of the hate and the [C] stabbing.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ It's war amongst the rebels.
_ _ [C] Madness, madness, [G] war.
_ _ Light number one was [Eb] in Brixton.
_ [Ab] _ Soprano B sound [Eb]
system.
Was a beating out a rhythm with [G] the fire.
_ _ Incoming down is [Db] reggae, reggae [G] wire.
[E] It was a sound shaking down your spinal column.
[Ab] A bad music tearing up your [G] flesh.
And _ [C] the rebels them start [G] a fighting.
_ [Am] You know, you [Bb] just heard [G] high.
_ [Am] It's war amongst the [G] rebels.
_ _ Madness, [A] madness, [G] war.
_ _ Night number two [E] down at Shepards.
_ [Eb] _ Right up Railton [G] Road.
[Eb] It was a [Ab] night named Friday when [D] everyone was high on [Am] brew.
[C] Or drew.
[G] _
_ A pound or two worth of college.
_ [Ab] Sound coming down of [Eb] the king's music [Ab] iron. _ _ _
The rhythm just bubbling and [G] backfiring. _
_ _ [Ab] Raging and [G] rising. _ _
When [C] suddenly the music [Dm] cut.
_ _ [A] Steel blade [Ab] drinking blood in darkness. _ _ _ _ _
_ It's war amongst [G] the rebels.
_ _ [C] Madness, [G] madness, war.
_ _ Night [Am] number three _ [G] over the river.
[D] Right outside the [G]
rainbow.
_ [Ab] Inside James Brown [Eb] was screaming.
[Gm] Soul outside the rebels were freezing [Ab] cold.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ Babylonian tyrants [C] descended.
_ Hounds turned to brothers who were bold.
[Cm] So with the flick [C] of the wrist.
Jab [Eb] on the staff.
[Ab] The song of blaze was [Gm] sounded.
_ [C] Isle of oppression [Eb] was vomited.
And two _ policemen [G]
hanged.
_ [A] _ [C] Righteous, [G] righteous, yo.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ Night number four [Eb] at a blues dance.
[Ab] A blues [C] dance.
_ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [C] School room stopped [Eb] and the pressure pushing up.
[Ab] Hot.
_ _ [Db] Hot [Gm] heads.
_ Ritual of blood [C] in a blues [G] dance.
Broke lads.
[D] _
Splintering fire.
_ Axes, blades, brain [G] blasts.
[C] Rebellion rushing down the wrong [Gm] road.
[C] Storm blowing down the wrong [Eb] tree.
[C] And D-Roy, he's near death on the fourth night.
_ In a blues [G] dance.
[Am] Black [C] _ [G] rebellious night.
_ _ [C] It's war [G] amongst the rebels.
_ [E] _ Madness, [G] madness, war.
_ _ Night number five at the telegraph.
_ _ [Ab] Vengeance walked through [Am] the doors.
[C] So [Ab] slow, so [Eb]
smooth.
So tight [Cm] and ripe [Eb] and smashed.
_ _ [G] Broke lads.
[Eb] A bottle finds a head [D] and the shell of the fire heard cracks.
[Eb] _ [G] The [C] victim feels [Ab] fear.
_ Heinz [Gm] hands.
_ Bows [Eb] knife.
_ _ Feinthroat.
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_ [Db] Oh, the stabbings and [Cm] the bleeding and [G] the blood.
_ [C] It's war amongst the [G] rebels.
_ _ [C] _ Madness, madness, war.
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