Biko Drum

    Am    F                    G
    Wait, listen to the Biko drum! 
(4x)

              G               C   
    And they went home on an 
    G
Easter road,
          C                   F   
    on a silent night tryin' not 
    G
to show
     C                  F     
    who goes where and who goes 
    G
when,
              F                    
    thinkin' some day soon they'll 
        C     G
get it back again.

               G                   
    From the ghetto in Capetown to 
C        G
dig the gold,
     C                 F        G
    little black baby can't be sold,
     C                    F    
    under tin roof and a plastic 
   G
wall,
              F                
    thinkin' someday soon we're 
           C       G
goin' to leave it all.

         C                    
And the renegades sing all the 
  Em       F
renegade songs,
        Am                         
and the ones who know hope they're 
      Em
doin' wrong.
      F                            
The blacks and the coloreds play 
         G
the Biko Drum,
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         F                         
all the blacks and the coloreds 
       G    Am    F     G
play the Biko Dru..........m.

     G                    C     
    Transvaal Kids on a Transvaal 
   G
day,
     C                      F     
    little by little they show the
  G
 way
          C                  F    
    to a city of dreams and solid 
  G
ground,
              F                
    thinkin' someday soon we're 
        C     G
gonna come around.

      G                       C   
     Steve, he's livin' in a 
  G
prison cell,
               C                   
    all the friends that know hope 
      F     G
he's doin' well.
          C                     
    Down here they listen to the 
  F     G
Biko drum,
           F                    
    down here they listen to the 
  C        G
songs he sung.

         C                    
And the renegades sing all the 
 Em        F
renegade songs,
        Am                         
and the ones who know hope they're 
      Em
doin' wrong.
      F                            
The blacks and the coloreds play 
         G
the Biko Drum,
         F                         
all the blacks and the coloreds 
       G    Am    F     G
play the Biko Dru............m.

    Am    F                    G
    Wait, listen to the Biko drum! 
(2x)

     G                    C   
    Nelson listen to the people 
   G
sing,
     C                   F     
    Nelson Mandela, the people's 
   G
king.
      C                       F   
    Twenty-seven years in a white 
       G
man's jail,
      F                            
    twenty-seven years we couldn't 
 C        G
make him say.

         C                    
And the renegades sing all the 
 Em        F
renegade songs,
        Am                         
and the ones who know hope they're 
      Em
doin' wrong.
      F                            
The blacks and the coloreds play 
         G
the Biko Drum,
         F                         
all the blacks and the coloreds 
       G    Am    F     G
play the Biko Dru............m.

    Am    F                    G
    Wait, listen to the Biko drum ! 
(4x)