Tom: Gm
Intro: Gm - C Gm - C Gm - C Gm - C (2x)
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1. There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles,
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blood in the streets it's up to my knee.
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Blood in the streets, the town of Chicago,
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blood on the rise, it's following me,
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just about the break of day.
Em G B7 A
She came, then she drove away, sunlight in her hair.
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2. Blood on the streets runs a river of sadness,
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blood in the streets, it's up to my thigh.
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The river runs down the legs of the city,
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the women are crying red rivers of weeping.
Em G B7 A
She came in town and then she drove away, sunlight in her hair.
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Indians scattered on dawn's highway,
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bleeding ghosts crowd the young childs fragile eggshell mind.
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3. Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven,
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blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice.
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Blood in my love in the terrible summer,
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bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.
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Blood screams her brain as they chop off her fingers,
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blood will be born in the birth of a nation,
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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4. There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles,
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blood in the streets it's up to my knees.
Gm C - Gm C
Blood in the streets, the town of Chicago,
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blood on the rise, it's following me.