Allahu Akbar Cifras

Emperor X
"Allahu Akbar"
From the album "Western Teleport" (2011)
 
[Intro]
Bb  F
 
[Verse]
Bb
Chalk in the riverbed
    F                                   Bb
Was deposited by the ocean as it boiled off
Bb
Encased in calcium carbonate
         F
We could drown or we could solder
Bb
I climbed the ranks of militiamen
        F                                        Bb
And the Sadrites, and my parents felt a cautious pride
Bb
And disregarded Shari'a Law
            F
And put the Tigris in a trench now
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Bbsus2                                            Dm7
Give us rain, give us rain, give us rain, give us rain,
                      C
Give us rain, give us rain, send us water
Bbsus2                                                  Dm7
Send us trucks, send us trucks, send us trucks, send us trucks,
                        C
Send us trucks, send us tanks, send us IEDs
Bbsus2                                                  Dm7
Send us planes, send us planes, send us planes, send us planes,
                        C
Send us planes, send us planes, is the sky clear enough?
Bbsus2                      Dm7   C
Send us dust storms, woah-
 
[Chorus]
Bb            F
Allahu Akbar
 
[Verse]
Bb
The sand has lowered the vitamin
    F                                              Bb
Saturation point, put a straw under the bridge and suck
Bb
We made a pact with the Arakeen
       F
And we built ourselves a filter
Bb
The city hydro's undrinkable
          F                                               Bb
Shattered cinderblocks are their favorite things to talk about
Bb
We saw your face in the Guardian
       F
And it raised the circulation
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Bbsus2
Send us rain, please transmit
                        Dm7
Please receive our dumb prayers,
                 C
Telepath, send a flood, send us an avalanche
Bbsus2                                  Dm7
Send us cold, send us ice, send us meteorites
                      C
Send us snow, send us hail, send us high speed rail
Bbsus2                                     Dm7
We can pay, we should pay, we will pay, we insist
                   C
No defaults but we must get down to Chechnya
Bbsus2                                         Dm7
We defend, we fight back, we plant bombs under tracks
                        C
We skip church, all the monotheists
 
[Chorus]
Bb                    F
Sing: "Allahu Akbar!"
 
Bb
And the Inuit sang
        Dm
And the Zionists sang:
  C               Bb
"Allahu Akbar!"
 
Bb
And the economists sang
           Bb
And the astronomers sang
        Dm
And the anarchists sang:
  C             Bb
"Allahu Akbar!"
 
Bb
God is greatest!
Bb
God is greatest!
Dm
God is greatest!
  C             Bb
"Allahu Akbar!"
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