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The Guns of Brixton

The Clash
ChordsKeyBmintermediate96 BPM
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Intro

        

Verse

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in 
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

Chorus

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton 

Verse

The money feels good 
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell 
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun 
His game is called survival
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

Chorus

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton 

Bridge

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in 
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

Chorus

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton 

Verse

The money feels good 
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell 
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun 
His game is called survival
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

Chorus

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton 

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