The Motor City Is Burning Chords by John Lee Hooker

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[Eb] _ [Db] Oh, the motor city's [Bb] burning. _ _
It ain't a thing in the world that I can [Eb] do. _ _ _
_ [Db] Don't you know?
[Gb] Don't you know the big city is burning? _
_ [Eb] Ain't a thing in the world that Johnny can do. _ _
_ _ My [F] hometown, Funendown, would have drowned. _
[Gb] _ [Eb] Western and Fairenau. _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] Oh, it started on [Ebm] 12th and Claremont that morning.
_ [Bb] I just don't know what it's all [Eb] about. _
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The _ _ _ [Dbm] fire wagon kept [F] coming.
_ _ [Eb] The sniper just wouldn't let them put it out. _
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[Bbm] Firebomb busting all around [Eb] me.
_ [Db] _ _ And soldiers everywhere.
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[Db] Oh, [Ab] _ [Gb] firebombs falling all around me. _
[Gb] And [Eb] soldiers standing everywhere.
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[Dbm] _ _ [Ebm] I could hear the [Eb] people screaming. _ _
[Ebm] _ _ Sorry, [Db] [F] I _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Db] don't know what the trouble is. _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] I [Db] can't stay around to [Eb] find it out. _
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] I don't [Ab] know.
I don't know [Gb] what the trouble is.
[Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] I just [Db] can't stay around to [Ebm] find it out.
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[Db] Taking my wife [F] and my family.
[Eb] And those Johnny Lee's are burning down. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The motor city's burning. _ _
[Db] Ain't [Eb] a thing that I can do. _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] Oh, the motor city's burning.
[Ebm] _ _ _ [Db] Ain't a thing that I [Eb] can do. _
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ I just hope people better _ _ [Db] never [F] have one for you.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ Yes, yeah. _
[Bb] I could hear [Eb] the firemen. _ _ _ _
They said, let's get out of here.
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