the GBV's songbook

name: The Drinking Jim Crow
album: Sandbox
date: 1987
author(s): Robert Pollard
© 1987 Needmore song (BMI)

chords:
C  x35553
F# 244322
F  133211

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C  F#  -2x-

C           F#
IIII have emotional scars
C          F#
IIII don't understand what your saying
C                       F#
ah-ah-ah-ah, it's an accomplice of mine
 C         F#
feeeeling somethings going to blow
     F
and watch where you go
          C    -stop-
i'm the drinking jim crow

C  F#  -2x-

C                        F#
ah did you know it's a traditional game
C                         F#
ah and we market it as a nasty little nation
 C                 F#
drinking from the fire in the well
C                   F#
extracting all the venom from the snake

    F
be careful you know
          C
i'm the drinking jim crow
         F
may the best things be stolen
         C
and the costumes be we froze
         F
and the master of races
          C
and the stone pointed faces
         F
and the killing of time
          C
i'm the drinking jim crow
        F
better look where you go
        C                F
better look where you go

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originally tabbed by: Ralph Rotmalm.