[Intro]CFGC[Verse 1]C
It was no place for a lady
F
on a Sunday afternoon
GC
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
GC
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.
[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.
How to play The Monrovians Vs The Klan: key, chords and progression
These are the chords for The Monrovians Vs The Klan by Chuck Brodsky on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
The Monrovians Vs The Klan by Chuck Brodsky sits in C major (no sharps or flats), and you need 3 chords to play it: C, F and G.
Listen for C – F – G – C (I – IV – V – I in C major), the I–IV–V–I, the backbone of gospel, blues and folk: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – fah – soh – doh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.
Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes A, D, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 67% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.
