No Time For Love Chords
No Time For Love by Christy Moore is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em, D, Dsus4 and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Its played in 6/8 time I think; and feel free to change it, if you want to!
(G) C G C G
They call it the law, apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence
Em D
It's a law that they made to keep you and me, where they think we belong
C G C G
They hide behind steel and bulletproof glass, Machine guns and spies
Em D Dsus4 D
And you tell us who'll suffer the tear gas and torture that we're doing wrong
C G
No time for love if they come in the morning
D G
No time to show tears over fears in the morning
C G
No time for goodbyes, no time to ask why
Bm C D G C G
And the sound of the siren the cry of the mourning
C G C G
They came for Sacko, Vanzetti, Connolly and Pearce in their time
Em D
They came for Newton and Seal, Bobby Sands and some of his friends
C G C G
In Boston, Chicago, Saigon, San Diego, Warsaw and Belfast
Em D Dsus4 D
And places that never make headlines the list never ends
C G C G
The boys in blue are only a few of the everyday cops on their beat
Em D
The CID branchmen informers and spies do their job just as well
C G C G
And behind them the men who tap phones and load down computers and files
Em D Dsus4 D
And the man that tells them when to come to take you to your cell
Ref.
C G C G
So come on you people who give your brothers and sisters the will to live on
Em D
They say you can get used to this war but that doesn't mean that this war isn't on
C G C G
The fish need the sea to survive just like your comrades need you
Em D Dsus4 D
And the death squads can only get through to them if first they can get through to you
Ref. 2x