State Radio - The Legacy Of Margaret Brown Chords

Dm
Dear man, you must be mad

Good man, how many drinks have you had?
          A7
Don't you know? Your family's worried sick over you

Dm
In any event we have no time to spare

The canvas of your age has a tear
       A7
And a needle without a thread does not a life mend
Dm
Mamma's worked yourself into a terrible fret

Keep saying, "You can see him"
                       G
And we say, "Not quite yet"
                  Dm
Oh, not quite yet

Dm
All quiet on the streets we hear the footsteps echo

Kids run up the stairs and look down from below          (Short part with strumming on every beat, non-reggae)
        A7
But the streetlight flickers

Mamma gets sicker

She says she's goin' to the place where no one twice goes


(From here play twice as fast, more ska like)

   Dm
So I had to come and arrest you from your sleep

You see you got too many promises to keep
           G
And what's more they be dying of starvation

With all the food on this world there still be famine in this here nation
A#
You know you love them but they really don't know
A7
How can they see where the poison go?


(Change to non-reggae, rock like strumming)

            Dm
'Cause it's far, far better thing than I've ever done

For you to become the father to your only son
     G
Look long at the father before you
              A7
Sits with his hands on his knees 'cause he don't know what to do
       E#                     A7
In his old tweed coat and his dress shoes
         Dm                       A7
Furrowed brow and the eyes of the confused
     G
Tries desperately to explain his
     C
Subsequent recluse
          A7
In the re-mainder of his days
Dm                  A7
I know he old but mind you
         Dm                 A#
How many years go by in a second or two
         G                     A#
Won't be long to your kids are lookin' at you
C                A#
Just as you are now
                   Dm
Just as you are now


(From here play like the beginning, simple reggae)

Dm              A7             Dm
Turn around, my good man, turn around
                A7             Dm
Turn around, my good man, Margaret Brown
                A7             Dm
Turn around, my good man, turn around
                A7             Dm
Turn around, for dear Margaret Brown
                A7             Dm
Turn around, my good man, turn around
                A7            Dm
Turn around,        make your way down
                A7            Dm
Turn around, my good man, turn around
                A7                  Dm
Turn around, for dear dear Margaret Brown