Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Riot On Broad Street(Chords)

Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Key: Em

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	        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
G C Em C X2 E

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