The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Dm]

[Verse 1]
You [Dm]will not be able
to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in,
turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose
yourself on skag
And skip out for beer during commercials,
because
The revolution will not
be televised
[Bm]

[Verse 2]
[B]The revolu[Bm]tion will not be televised
[B]The revolution will not
be brought to you
[Bm]By Xerox in four parts without
commercial interruptions
[B]The revolutio[B5]n will not[Bm] show you pictures
of Nixon blowing a bugle
[B5]And leading [B]a charge by John M[B5]itchell,
[B]General Abram[B5]s, an [Bm]d Spiro Agnew
[B]To [Bm]eat hog maws confisca[B]ted
from a Harlem sanctuary
[Bm]The revolution will not be televised[B]
[Am]The

[Verse 3]
revolution will not be brought to you
by the Schaefer Award Theatre
And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve
McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give
your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid
of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look
five pounds thinner, because

[Verse 4]
The revolution will not be televised, brother
[Am]
[C#]There will be no[G#] pictures of
you and Willie Mae
Pushing [Db]that shopping [Dm]cart down
[Bb]the block [Ab]on the dead run
Or trying to [Db]slide that color [Ab]TV
into a [Db]stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able predict the winner
At 8:32 on report from
twenty-n[G#]ine districts
[Am]districts
The revolu[Ab]tion [Db]will not be [Dm]televised
[Ab][Db][Ab][Db][Am][Cb]

[Verse 5]
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting
down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures [F]of pigs shooting
[Cb]down broth[Cbm]ers on the instant replay
There will be [Cb]no pictures
of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail
with [E]a brand new pro[Cb]cess
There will be no slow motion
or still lifes of Roy Wilkins
Strolling through Watts in a red, black,
and green liberation jumpsuit
That he has been saving for just

[Verse 6]
the proper occasion
[Cb]
Green Acres,
Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
Will no longer be so damn relevant
And women will not care if Dick
finally got down with Jane
On Search for Tomorrow
Because [Cbm]black [Cb]people will be in the
street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised
[Dm]

[Verse 7]
There will be no highlights on
the eleven o'clock news
And no pictures of hairy armed
women liberationists
And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose
The theme song will not be written by
Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys
Nor sung by Glen Campbell,
Tom Jones, Johnny Cash
Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth
The revolution will not be [Am]televised
[Cb]The

[Verse 8]
revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado
White lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a
dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank,
or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better
with [Cb]Coke
The revolution will not fight germs
that may cause [Cb]bad breath
The [F]revolution will put you
in the driver's seat

[Verse 9]
The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run,
brothers
brothers

[Outro 1]
The revolution will be live