Let Robeson Sing



Music by Bradfield/Moore
Lyrics by Nicky Wire
Transcribed by Rohan Armstrong (hateisart@hibernation.co.uk)
DEFINITIONS
s - slide
~ - vibrato
b - bend
r - release
h - hammer on
p - pull off

STANDARD TUNING  EADGBE
            D    xx0232
            A    x02220
            F#   244322
            G    320033
            Em   022000
            
           

Intro
*****
   D             A
E--2-2-2-3-2--------------------
B--3---------3-----2-2-3-2------
G--2-----------------------4--2- X4   (play this riff wherever you see the D chord folowed by A)
D--0----------------------------
A----------------0--------------

Verse 1
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D             A
Where are you now?
              D          A
Broken up or still around?
      F#m                     G
The CIA says you're a guilty man
                                  D    A
Will we see the likes of you again?

Verse 2 (same as verse 1)
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Can anyone make a differnce anymore?
Can anyone write a protest song?
Pinky, lefty revolutionary
Burned at the stake for?


Chorus
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      D----0-          A----0-
G     A-0h2--     A    E-0h2--
A voice        so pure
         E-3-2-0--        D----2-
D        B------3-     Em A-0h2--
A vision so clear
F#m                        G
I gotta learn to live like you
                    A
Learn to sing like you

Middle bit
*********
   D             A
E--2-2-2-3-2--------------------
B--3---------3-----2-2-3-2------
G--2-----------------------4--2- X2
D--0----------------------------
A----------------0--------------

Verse 3 (same as previous verses)
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Went to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoid

Verse 4
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No passport till 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost, still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USA

 

Chorus (same as before)
*******

Break (with speech)
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D A  D A  D A  D  A  D  A (just play the chords here and not the little riff)

   D             A
E--2-2-2-3-2--------------------
B--3---------3-----2-2-3-2------
G--2-----------------------4--2- 
D--0----------------------------
A----------------0--------------
 

Chorus (same as before)
******

Outro
*****
   D             A
E--2-2-2-3-2--------------------
B--3---------3-----2-2-3-2------
G--2-----------------------4--2-  X2
D--0----------------------------
A----------------0--------------
Sing it loud, sing it proud
I will be here I will be found

Do the outro twice and finish on D chord
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