Grim Travellors

GRIM TRAVELLORS - Bruce Cockburn "Humans" 1980

VAMP: (this is pretty approx., there are up and down strums

throughout on chord)

Em Cadd9 (alt G bass)

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LYRICS

Em Cadd9 (alt G bass)

Ministers meet, work on the movement of goods

Also work on the movement of capital

Also work on the movement of human beings

As if we were so many cattle

We're grim travellors in dawn skies

See the beauty it makes 'em cry inside

G F#m C Am7 hold on bass A note-

Makes 'em angry, and they don't know why

G C G C G Am7 Em vamp

We're grim travellors in dawn skies

Twelve, mercenaries got weapons primed

Gonna take that African nation in record time

You wonder why they bother, why not leave it alone they say

Every man wants a place he can call his own

Em line (top str.)

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Redness, richer than a rose

Blooms against the backdrop of somebody's white clothes

Bitter little boys and girls in the red Army underground

They'd blow away Karl Marks if he had the nerve to come around

Down on the plain of ten thousand smoke stacks

Trucks butt each other into established dominance

Newspapaer leans over to me and says matter o' factly

Sacred mountain towers above meadows high and above us uh-huh

transcribed by Stephen Cody Coderre

Coderre@unixg.ubc.ca^Z