Nortabs

Beaches of Rio
Tom Pacheco
Innspilt med Steinar Albrigtsen på "Big Storm Comin'"
1993


C
He's a catholic priest in Rio
                     G7
in the shanty town heat

Taking care of young children
                                    C
thrown out like stray cats on the street
                                                          F
Where the shopkeepers pay the police to kill kids by the score
G7                                                 C
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore


And he walks through the slums
and the garbage dumbs each day at five
Hoping the twins he fed last night
might still be alive
Last week a child shot, two pieces was left at his door
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore


                   F                           C
On the beaches of Rio where the hotels lights shine
                   Am                       G
you can hear bossanova and drink Portuguese wine
                   F                      Am
On the beaches of Rio money perfumes the air
             C       G7                       C
poverty is a nuisance, you pretend it's not there


There's a 10 year old prostitute
kissing a smiling old man
who could be her grandfather
except he owns banks in Japan
Her brother was murdered
for stealing some fruit from a store
Just one more criminal
who won't bother the rich anymore


On the beaches...


The catholic priest sees
a gang of small boys selling drugs,
working as runners for 
big time Colombian thugs
If they get too smart
they wash up like dead fish on the shore
Just one more criminal
who won't bother the rich anymore





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