A lot of people helped with the lyrics, notably William Wittman.
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Thanks WW and everybody!
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Intro: G#m C#m G#m C#m Ebm G#m
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G#m C#m G#m C#m Ebm G#m
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The missionary's position is clear, break them do---wn
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G#m C#m G#m C#m Ebm G#m
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Converting the savage Panare, break them do----wn
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And purge them of all of their sins, break them down
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Whilst making funds trading jaguar skins, break them down
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INSTRUMENTAL (as intro, and verse)
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The new tribe's mission and the lord, break them down
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Are gonna fit them with a vinyl spinal cord, break them down
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In the jungle in Venezuela, break them down
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Checked shirts, radios, barbed wire, break them down
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BRIDGE
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Ebm C#m Ebm G#m
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Ooh when they teach those savages to believe
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Ebm C#m G#m Ebm
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We'll all be one step closer to world harmony
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(Ebm) G#m C#m G#m C#m Ebm G#m
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Break them down, Break them do---wn
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INSTRUMENTAL (guitar solo same chords as verse)
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They rewrote the lord's prayer, break them down
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And made the death of Christ the work of the Panare, break them down
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Nearby Darwin was hanging by his throat, break them down
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The fundamentalists were starting to gloat, break them down
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BRIDGELosing their loin cloths as they gain ethnicide
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All dressed in Western clothes and god will be their guide
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Break them down, (repeat and fade)
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Break Them Down
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| Graham Parker |
