Song For Dennis Brown Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Riff x2

 On the Gday that Dennis Brown’s lung collCapsed

 Spring rain was mDisting down on KGingston.

 And down Gat the harbor

 Local Ccops were intercDepting an inbound sGhipment.

C And for a while there it was cGhaos

  As they hCandcuffed and then ruffed up some sDailors.

G On the day my lung collapsesC, it’s Dnot gonna be that Gdifferent.

On the day that Dennis Brown’s habits caught up with him

School children sang in choirs.

And out behind the Chinese restaurants

Guys were jumping into dumpsters.

And the stench was overbearing

But they were past the point of caring.

On the day my habits catch up with me, I’ll be down among the jumpers.

Bridge

And when the birds come home in spring

We will fill them full of buckshot.

And jets of contaminated blood

Will cloud the rivers and the lakes.

It took all the coke in town

To bring down Dennis Brown.

On the day my lung collapses, we’ll see just how much it takes.

Outro

Riff x2

Bridge

Riff x4