Riot On Broad Street

	  		Intro: Em C X4 

verse 1: 
   Em                           C 
My father once told this to me, Boston's gritty history 
  Em                         C 
Another ruthless battle in a useless holy war 
Em                            C 
Handed down discrepancies and tensions that'll never ease 
          Em                            C 
One early afternoon on broad street, it blew up down there for sure 
G                       D                C 
Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough 
    G             D                C 
And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap 
       G                   D                 C 
You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough 
G                   D            C 
Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap 

BREAK: Em C X2 

verse 2: 
           Em                                 C 
The Boston fire fighting volunteers, on their way to fight a fire somewhere 
      Em                    C 
Met a funeral procession proceeding way too slow 
  Em                                  C 
A brownstone burns out of control, we need to lay to rest this soul 
Em                                  C 
Loggerheads on broad street, eye to eye and toe to toe 
G                       D                C 
Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough 
    G             D                C 
And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap 
       G                   D                 C 
You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough 
G                   D            C 
Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap 

Chorus: 
G D          Em    C                 G               D               C            D 
Riot down on broad street, hand me a brick, stick, a picket, bottle, axe or cobblestone 
G D          Em    C           G            D                   Em                  C    
Riot down on broad street, and if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone, I won't go down alone
 

BREAK: Em C X4 

verse 3: 
    Em                             C 
And when the fight was over they retired to the Clover 
       Em                                C 
Silver Dollar, Thirsty Scholar, whatever pubs they had back then 
  Em                              C 
A brownstone was in ashes, broken bones and bloody gashes 
      Em                                      C 
And a casket sat on broad street 'til the sun came up again 
G                       D                C 
Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough 
    G             D                C 
And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap 
       G                   D                 C 
You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough 
G                   D            C 
Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap 

Chorus/ENDING: 
G D          Em    C                 G               D               C            D 
Riot down on broad street, hand me a brick, stick, a picket, bottle, axe or cobblestone 
G D          Em                                                 C                      
Riot down on broad street, and if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone 
       Em                            C 
And if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone 
       Em                            C 
And if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone 
          Em           C                       Em           C 
There's a Riot down on broad street, there's a Riot down on broad street 
          Em           C                       Em           C 
There's a Riot down on broad street, there's a Riot down on broad street 


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