Oconnor Sinead

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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 23:50:13 CST

From: "Ben Weiss" 

orig by Andrew Fung  

Subject: CRD: Sinead O'Connor, "Black Boys on Mopeds"



I'm sure this is in OLGA, but it's easy enough to whip up.  Sinead plays it 

in B, which you can try if you're a masochist...

   Ben

(To Dave: I'd love the chords and lyrics to "Troy.")





BLACK BOYS ON MOPEDS

Sinead O'Connor

(from _I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got_)



Intro/strum pattern: D A G, with an A on the last beat before returning to 

  D.  Spelled out in 3/4 time, it goes: D D D  A A A  G G G  G G A  D...



D            A        G

Margaret Thatcher on TV

           A   D                A           G   

Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing

A     D                A           G

Seems strange that she should be offended

    A    D          A        G

The same orders are given by her



I've said this before now

You said I was childish and you'll say it now

Remember what I told you

They hated me, they will hate you



        (G)       A       D        A       G

CHORUS: England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses

                 D         A             G

        It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds

            D         A        G

        And I love my boy, and that's why I'm leaving

                D              A                  G

        I don't want him to be aware that there's any such thing as grieving

           (hold G for extra measure, then A on last beat before verse)



Young mother down at Smith Field, 5 a.m.

Looking for food for her kids

In her arms she holds three cold babies

And the first word that they learned was "Please"



These are dangerous days

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave

Remember what I told you

If you were of the world they would love you



CHORUS



"Ooo" to fade over verse chords, end on D