Word game by Stephen Stills - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics

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	D2	C
And I k	now most of you either do	n't believe it's ture

Gsus Dm/F (riff)

Or else you don't know what to do, or maybe I'm singing about you who knows?

It's incredibly sick, you can feel it as across the land it flows

Prejudice is slick, when it's a word game it festers and grows

Move along quick, it furthers one to have somewhere to go

You can feel it as it's rumblin' let emotions keep a-tumblin'

Then, as cities start to crumblin' mostly empty bellies grumblin' here we go

(riff 4 times)

People see somebody different, fear is the first reaction shown

Then they think they've got him licked,

the barbaric hunt begins and they move in slow

A human spirit is devoured, the remains left to carrion crow

I was told that life is change and yet history remains

Does it always stay the same? Do we shrug it off and say only God knows

(riff 4 times)

By and by, somebody usually goes

Down to the ghetto, try and help, but they don't know why folks treat

them cold

And the rich keep getting richer, and the rest of us just keep getting old

You see, one must have a mission in order to be a good Christian

If you don't you will be missing High Mass or the evening show

And the well fed masters reap the harvests of the polluted seeds they've sown

Smug and self-righteous, they bitch about people they owe

And you can't prove them wrong, they're so God damn sure they know

	D2	C
I have se	en these things with my	very own eyes

	Gsus	Dm/F
And def	ended my battered soul, it must be t	oo tough to die

	D2	C	Gsus
A	merican propaganda, South A	frican lies will not fo	rce me to take up arms

	Dm/F
That's my en	emy's pride

	D2	C
and I won't f	ight by his rules, that's	foolishness besides

	Gsus	Dm/F
His ig	norance is gonna do him in and n	obody's gonna cry

	D2	C
Because his ch	ildren, they are growing up and p	lainly tired of putting up

	Gsus	Dm/F
Wi	th bigots and their si	lver cups

D (riff 4 last time end

w/ A)

They're fed up, they might throw up on you, alright

CHORDS:

Gsus2

Dm/F

D --0----7----5----3----x----0----0----x-----
A --0----5----3----3----3----0----0----0-----
D --0----0----0----0----x----0----0----x-----
D --0----0----0----0----5----0----0----2-----
D --0----0----0----0----0----5----3----0-----
D --0----0----0----0----0----5----3----0-----

RIFF:

D --7p5h7--5--3-------0-----
A --5------3--3--3----0-----
D --------------------------
D ---------------5----------
D --------------------------
D --0--------------0-----0--

NOTE: I didn't attempt to provide timing or total accuracy on the riff.

The important thing is to keep the bass note going while the other

strings are being played.

Also, the tuning can also be E E E E B E, as if a capo was

placed on the second fret. Between these two tunings, one can play the

other Stills songs 4+20, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, and We Are Not

Helpless.

(from Stephen Stills 2, 1971. Also on the CSN box set)

(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)

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Word game

Stephen Stills

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