Chords for Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren

My revolutionary friend is not the same again.
You know from when?
From the buses shut to silence start to crumble.
From party for a [C] month it's like a tumble.
From [Em] Hungary to Poland to Romania.
From the cozy castles [C] them start to crumble.
Now when we buck up one another in the reasoning,
[Em] my friend always end [C] up on the same thing.
[E]
This is the song I'm about to sing.
Ada, he had to go.
Jibz Cop, he had to go.
Poo Poo Sock, he had to go.
Honey Cup, he had to go.
High [Am] Chess School, he had to [E] go.
The flight of apartheid, we'll have to go. _
A while ago me friend and me was talking.
So me said to him,
what a way the earth a run [C] nowadays man.
It getting harder by the day to know where you stand.
Cause [E] when you think you're there on solid [C] dry land.
[E] When you take a step you find you [C] in a quicksand.
You [E] not notice how the landscape [C] a shape.
It's [E] like bank here no one die.
[C] And nothing can stop it.
[E] Things just a bubble [C] just a pile down below.
[E] Start a separate and [C] re-fall.
And when you think you reach the mountain top.
It's [E] a brand new plateau you go buck up.
Me revolutionary friend shake him head on him side.
This was him reply.
Ada, he had to go.
[Am] Jibz Cop, he had to go.
[Am] Moonsock, [E] he had to go.
[Am] Honey Cup, [E] he had to go.
High Chess School, he had to go.
[Am] Just like apartheid, [E] we'll have to go.
_ Well me never did satisfy
with what me friend make reply.
And to get a deeper meaning in the reasoning.
Me said to him, well alright.
So God be give the people them [C] rational.
And it pose a [C] Stalinist them plenty problem.
So God be make a peristrike upon them.
[Em] Compounding bureaucratic strategy.
But we have to face up to [C] the full facts.
Him also working up on the Ras Bach.
Yes [E] people power just a shower [C] every hour.
And everybody claim them democratic.
But some a wolf and some a sheep.
And that is problematic.
[E] Nothing like that you would a call a [D] dialectic.
_ Me revolutionary friend pause a while and him smile.
Then him look me in me eye and reply.
[Am] K-Dot, he had [E] to go.
[Am] Jiffcock, he had to go.
Moonsock, [E] he had to go.
[Am] Honey Cup, he had to [E] go.
High Chess [B] School, he had to go.
[Am] Just like apartheid, [E] we'll have to go.
_ Well me couldn't elaborate.
Plus it was getting kinda late.
So in spite of me lack a [C] understanding
about the meaning of the changes in the East and the West.
Nonetheless, _ and [Em] although me have me reservation
about the consequences and [C] implication.
Especially the black liberation.
To [E] bring the reasoning to a [C] conclusion,
I had was to agree with me friend.
Hoping that when we meet up once again,
we could [Em] a have a more fuller conversation.
[F] _ So me say to him, you know what?
Him say what?
Me say, K [E]-Dot, he had to go.
[Am]
Jiffcock, he had [E] to go.
[Am] Moonsock, he had to go.
Honey Cup, he had to go.
High Chess School, he had to go.
Just like apartheid, same [E] vibe.
[Em] Me revolutionary friend is not the same again.
You know from when? _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] I'm [C] not the same.
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[E] I'm not the same.
[B] I'm not the [Am] same.
I'm not the same.
[E]
I'm not the same.
I'm not the same.
I'm not the same. _ _ _ _ _ _ _