D5 C5 G5 D5

D5                       C5
Fragile little thing go lightly on the wing
         G5
Don't be put off your game
     D5
If troubled wind should blow you off your way
  D5 
Natural love and trust
       C5
Have downed their tools and struck
       G5
The nation's heart it rusts is no suprise
          D5
and seems so appropriate today


Em       F              C C 
  Black tears on a red rock
D5             Em             F#5 G 
  Fall right through and they dry up

C                               G F#/G Em Dsus4
How could it fail to grab your attention
       F  C           G
Black tears on a red rock

D#      F                     G
  These trees bear a strange fruit
              D#                F                G
  Harvesting lies and poisoned blossoms of the truth

C                                                 G F#/G Em Dsus4
  There's blood on all our hands and blood on our boots
           F C            G
And black tears on a red rock

   D
An island watch house bed
    C                                G            D
A black man's lying dead
     D 
An island watch house bed
     C                               G             D
A black man's lying dead