Chuck Brodsky – The Monrovians Vs The Klan Chords on Piano & Ukulele

These are the chords for The Monrovians Vs The Klan by Chuck Brodsky on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
C F G C

[Verse 1]
       C
It was no place for a lady
     F
on a Sunday afternoon
   G           C
In 1925 on the 21st of June.
         C
It was a hundred two degrees and
     F
even hotter in the stands
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.

 [Verse 2]
   C
No strangleholds, no razors,
   F
no horsewhips were allowed
           G            C
They put a couple extra policemen
in the crowd.
  C
Other violent implements of
F
argument were banned
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.

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 [Verse 3]
    C
The klan was not too popular
   F
in Kansas at the time
       G
They’d already been exposed for
      C
their racketeering crimes.
   C
In Wichita they didn’t seem
   F
to have a lot of fans
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.

 [Verse 4]
     C
Only baseball would be on tap
   F
at Island Park that day
         G
Said the headline in the Beacon
       C
on the morning they would play.
          C
They were trying to head off
          F
trouble before the game began
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.

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 [Verse 5]
    C
The umps were Irish Catholic,
     F
they favored neither side
G
Out there on the field the
           C
rules were evenly applied.
         C
It was a very good game of
                  F
baseball said the newspaperman
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.

 [Verse 6]
         C
It was a see-saw battle,
  F
a pitchers duel through four
       G
The Monrovians would break it open,
C
ten to eight the score.
         C
And then drive off in jalopies,
F
not those nice sedans
            G
The day the all black Monrovians
C
beat the ku klux klan.