Hi All, this is a great song and credit to the person that put it up.
I've made a few additions/changes to capture Christy's beat on this.
It's just a half or quarter bar on the second cord on each line but if you listen
to the song you'll pick it up.
(1) G C G
As they went home on an Easter Road
C F G
On a silent night trying not to show
C F G
Who goes where and who goes when
F C G
Thinking some day soon they'll get it back again
(2) G C F
From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold
C F G
Little Boy Blue can't be sold
C F G
Under tin roof and a plastic wall
F C G
Thinking some day soon we re going to leave it all
(chorus) C G F
And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
Am F G
And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G
The Biko Drum
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G Am
The Biko Drum
F G
Listen to the Biko Drum
(3) G C G
Transvaal kids on a Transvaal day
C F G
Little by little they show the way
C F G
To a city of dreams and solid ground
F C G
Thinking some day soon we're gonna come around
(4) G C G
Steve's living in a prison cell
C F G
All the friends that know hope he's doing well
C F G
Down here they listen to the Biko Drum
F C G
Down here they listen to the songs he sung
(chorus) C G F
And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
Am F G
And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G
The Biko Drum
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G Am
The Biko Drum
F G
Listen to the Biko Drum
(5) G C G
Nelson listen to the people sing
C F G
Nelson Mandela the people's king
C F G
Twenty-five years in a white man's jail
F C G
Twenty-five years we couldn't make him say
(chorus) C G F
And the Renegades sing all the renegades songs
Am F G
And the ones who know hope they're doing wrong
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G
The Biko Drum
F
The blacks and the coloureds play
G Am
The Biko Drum
F G
Listen to the Biko Drum
(outro – play 2x)
F G Am
Listen to the Biko Drum
F G Am
the Biko Drum
F G Am
Listen to the Biko Drum
F G
