Eddy Grant, Gimme hope, Jo'anna (1988)
Key: :[Ab] (w: Eddy Grant)
INTRO: [over VERSE]
VERSE 1:
Well Jo'-
[Ab]-anna she runs a
[Db] country
She runs in
[Ab] Durban and the Trans-
[D#]-vaal
She makes a
[Ab] few of her people
[Db] happy, oh
She don't
[Ab] care about the ^
[D#] rest at
[Ab] all
VERSE 2:
She's got a
[Ab] system they call a-
[Db]-partheid
It keeps a
[Ab] brother in a subject-
[D#]-ion
But maybe
[Ab] pressure can make Jo'-
[Db]-anna see
How every-
[Ab]-body could a ^
[D#] live as
[Ab] one
CHORUS:
Gimme
[Ab] hope Jo'anna,
[Db] hope Jo'anna
Gimme
[Ab] hope Jo'anna, before the
[D#] morning come
Gimme
[Ab] hope Jo'anna,
[Db] hope Jo'anna
[Ab] Hope before the ^
[D#] morning
[Ab] come
VERSE 3:
I hear she
[Ab] make all the golden
[Db] money
To buy new
[Ab] weapons, any shape of
[D#] guns
While every
[Ab] mother in black So-
[Db]-weto fears
The
[Ab] killing of an-^
[D#]-other
[Ab] son
VERSE 4:
Sneakin' a-
[Ab]-cross all the neighbours
[Db] borders
Now and a-
[Ab]-gain having little
[D#] fun
She doesn't
[Ab] care if the fun and
[Db] games she play
Is
[Ab] dang'rous to ^
[D#] ev'ry-
[Ab]-one
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 5:
She's got sup-
[Ab]-porters in high up
[Db] places
Who turn their
[Ab] heads to the city
[D#] sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy
[Db] money
Oh to
[Ab] tempt any-^
[D#]-one who'd
[Ab] come
