Intro: Dm Gm Dm Gm Dm



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In the heat of the summer

F A

When the pavements were burning

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The soul of a city was ravaged in the night

Gm Dm

After the city sun was sinkin'





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Now no one knows how it started

F A

why the windows were shattered

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But deep in the dark, someone set the spark

Gm Dm

And then it no longer mattered.



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Down the streets they were rumbling

F A

All the tempers were ragin

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Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues

Gm Dm

Who forgot to listen to the warnings?



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On and On come the angry

F A

No longer following reason

Dm C Dm

And all the stores were the target now

Gm Dm

Where just the other day they were buyin



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Drunk with the memory of the ghetto

F A

Drunk with the lure of the looting

Dm C Dm

And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks

Gm Dm

Asking,