Banana Republic

Bass Reggae Intro

|C   |Em  |Bb    |Am G  |
|C   |Em  |Bb    |Am G  |
|Dm  |C   |Dm    |C     |
|Am  |Dm  |G     |

Chorus

         Dm             C
Banana Republic, Septic Isle
                 Dm                         C
Screaming in the Suffering sea, sounds like cry, cry, crying
             Dm                    C
Everywhere I go yeah, Everywhere I see
                   Dm        G
The black and blue uniforms,     Police and priests

Verse
                    Dm                                     C
And I wonder do you wonder While you're sleeping with your whore
                       Dm                                C
That sharing beds with history is like a-licking running sores
                Dm                          C
Forty shades of green yeah, Sixty shades of red
             Dm                G
Heroes going cheap these days,     Price: a bullet in the head

Chorus
         Dm             C
Banana Republic, Septic Isle
              Dm                         C
Suffer in the Screaming sea, sounds like die, die, dying
             Dm                    C
Everywhere I go yeah, Everywhere I see
                   Dm        G
The black and blue uniforms,     Police and priests

Verse
                   Dm                   C
Take your hand and lead you up a garden path
               Dm                     C
Let me stand aside here and watch you pass
              Dm                          C
Striking up a soldier's song, I know that tune
                 Dm          G
It begs too many questions,      and answers too

Chorus
         Dm             C
Banana Republic, Septic Isle
              Dm                         C
Suffer in the Screaming sea, sounds like die, die, dying
             Dm                    C
Everywhere I go yeah, Everywhere I see
                   Dm        G
The black and blue uniforms,     Police and priests

Verse
                   Dm                                C
The purple and the pinstripe They mutely shake their heads
                    Dm                                      C
A silence shrieking volumes,  A violence worse than they condemn
                Dm                          C
Stab you in the back yeah, Laughing in your face
                Dm            G
Glad to see the place again -     It's a pity nothing's changed

Chorus
         Dm             C
Banana Republic, Septic Isle
              Dm                         C
Suffer in the Screaming sea, sounds like die, die, dying
             Dm                    C
Everywhere I go yeah, Everywhere I see
                   Dm        G
The black and blue uniforms,     Police and priests  (priests, priests, priests....)

Bass Reggae Outro

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|C   |Em  |Bb    |Am G  |
|Dm  |C   |Dm    |C     |G    |
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Bass notes only

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