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Grim Travellers Chords

Music by: Bruce Cockburn
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[Intro 1]
[Em][G][Em]

[Verse 1]
Ministers [Em]meet,
work on the [C]movement of [Em]goods
Also work on the movement
of cap[C]ital[Em]
Also work on the movement
[G]of hu[C]man [Em]beings
As if we were [D]so many cattle
[C]

[Verse 2]
[G]Grim [F#m]travelers in [C]dawn [F]skies[G]
See the [F#m]beau ty, makes y[C]ou cry ins[F]ide[G]
It makes you [F#m]angry and you
[C]don't know [A]why
[G]Grim [F]travelers in [G]dawn skies

[Interlude 1]
[F][Em]

[Verse 3]
Twelve [Em]mercenaries got
weapons [C]primed[Em]
Gonna take that African na
[G]tion in [C]record [Em]time
You wonder why they bother,
why [C]not leave it alone
They [Em]say, every man wants to retire
to a [C]place he can call his own

[Verse 4]
Those [G]grim [F#m]travelers in [C]dawn [F]skies
[G]They see the [F#m]beau ty,
makes [C]them cry in[F]side[G]
It makes them [F#m]angry and
they [C]don't know [A]why
[G]Grim [F]travelers in dawn
[G]skies

[Interlude 2]
[F][Em]

[Verse 5]
[Em]Redness, [C]richer than a [Em]rose
Blooms against the backdrop
[C]of somebody's white [Em]clothes
Bitter little girls and boys from the
[C]Red Army Under[G]ground
[C]They'd [Em]blow away Karl Marx if he
had the nerve [C]to come around

[Verse 6]
They're just [G]grim [F#m]travelers
in [C]dawn [F]ski[G]es
They see the [F#m]beau ty,
makes them [C]cry in[F]side[G]
It makes them [F#m]angry and they
[C]don't know [A]why[G]
They're grim [F]travelers in [G]dawn skies

[Interlude 3]
[F][Em]
[C][Em][G][C]
[Em][G][Em][F][Dm][G][Em]

[Verse 7]
Down on the [Em]plain of ten thousand
[C]smokestacks[Em]
Trucks butt each other to
establish dom[C]inance
[Em]The newspaper next to me leans
over and [C]says matter-of-factly
'Sacred [Em]'Sacred 'Sacred mountains tower
[C]s above meadows', uh-huh, and [G]above us

[Verse 8]
Grim [F#m]travelers in [C]dawn [F]skies
[G]I see t[F#m]he beauty,
it makes me [C]cry in[F]side[G]
It makes me [F#m]angry and I
[C]don't know [A]why
We're [G]grim [F]travelers in [G]dawn skies

[Outro 1]
[F][G][F][G][F][G][F][G]
[F][G][F][G][F][G][F]
[G][F][G][F][G][F][G][F]
[G][F][G][F][G][F][Em]
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