Chords for Patti Smith--Rock 'N' Roll Nigger (with Babelogue intro) ~ Easter (1978) HQ Audio

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I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the _ _ future.
_ Over [E] the skin and silk are scars from the [N] splinters of stations and walls I've caressed.
_ Stages like each bolt of wood, like a, like a log of hell, and it's my pleasure.
I would measure the success of a night by the way, by the way I echo,
by the amount of piss and seed I could exude.
All of the [Em] columns that nestled the PA.
Some nights I'd surprise [N] everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green.
Cuts sewed over with flat metallic silk as if it's stashed in flesh.
The nights you'd borrow a clean pocket of white.
I had more than a man of veil, I couldn't bear to use it.
With the rim of my hairless craft I could pay covering.
But now that my hair [C] itself is a veil and a scalp,
inside is a scalp of [Abm] a _ _ crazy and sleepy Comanche.
Right beneath this netting of [Bb] spit, I wake up.
I am lying [B] peacefully.
I'm lying peaceful and my knees [E] are open to the sun.
I desire [Abm] him.
He's just absolutely ready to seize me. _
In heart, I am Muslim.
In heart, [Bm] I am an [E] American.
In heart, I am a Muslim.
[Em] In heart, I am an American artist.
And I have no guilt.
I see pleasure.
I see nerves under your skin.
And now archway, the layers, the scroll of ancient letters.
We worship [E] the floor, the belly, the belly, the mold on the belly of an exquisite whore.
You spare the child and spoil the rod.
I have not sown myself to God.
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_ [A] _ [E] _ Bibi was a black sheep.
Bibi was a whore.
Bibi got bigger [D] and bigger [A] and bigger.
[E] Bibi get something.
Bibi get more.
_ Bibi, Bibi, Bibi [D] was a rock and [A] roll nigger.
[E] _ Look around you.
Look around you.
Riding on [D] a [A] cowboy.
_ [E] _ [Em] Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready [D]
to [A] be [E] head _ _ of society?
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_ [A] Hey!
[E] _ _ Head of society.
_ _ That's where I [D] want to be.
[A] Hey!
[E] Bibi was a black sheep.
Bibi was a whore.
You know she got big.
[D] Well, she's gonna [A] get bigger.
[E] Bibi got a hand, got a finger on the trigger.
Bibi, Bibi, Bibi [D] is a rock and [A] roll nigger.
[E] _ _ Outside of society.
_ _ That's where I want [D]
to [A] be.
_ [E] _ _ Outside of society. Hey!
_ [Em] The way you [D] find me.
[A] _ _ _ [Dbm] Those who have suffered understand suffering [N] in here by its tender [Bb] hand.
[Gb] One who brings [E] harm also makes fervor.
Blessed is the grass and herb and the tree of thorn and life.
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[A] Valley of [E] pleasure.
_ I [D] believe in [A] the sea.
[E] I _ _ [D]
worship [A] for measure.
[E] _ Blessed [D] is the hunter.
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In the past, [E] _ in the past [D] it mattered to me.
[E] _ I'm the law [D]
and the [E] cause.
But the fear of [D]
[A] society.
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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ Jimmy Hendrix, hope I'm a nigger.
_ The cheapest nice men in Brevard _ too.
Jackson Pollock, hope I'm a nigger.
Nigger, nigger, nigger, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ nigger.
The way to [D] fuck _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ outside of society.
_ _ If you're looking [A] for the sweet of my middle.
[E] _ Outside of society.
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[E] Outside _ _ of _ society.
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