Key: A minor
Verse 1
as it rushes underground.
I can hear the breakers crashing,
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I can hear the breakers pound.
I can stand beneath the waterfall
and shout with all my might.
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making ready for a fight.
I can see the little hobo
as he shuffles down the street
I can hear him in the diner
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as he bums a bite to eat
For ten years he stoked the furnace,
heard that factory whistle blow
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and it put him on the road
Well, I met another fellow
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as I wandered all about
He was mining down in Hazard
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till the Union sold him out
Yes, they worked him in the coal mines
till his back and his arms were sore
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and he can't go back no more
I can see the sharecrop farmer
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as he wipes his sweaty brow
He can see the crop is failing
on his paid -off farm and land
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and see it trickle through his hands
Well I met a nice young negro boy,
about seventeen or so
Said he didn't like the southern jails,
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but he felt that he had to go
Saying mom and dad were negroes,
and my son will be one too
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because we've given up on you
And as I passed an Air Force base,
a young man I did meet
With his shiny wings of silver
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and his uniform so neat
Saying, don't want to bomb them,
sir,
it fills me with dismay
But orders, they are orders,
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and you know I must obey
Well, I've been walking
through this country
and my eyes are open wide
There's things I've seen and
heard
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you couldn't imagine if you tried
I've been talking to some people
and one thing I understand
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There's a rumbling in the land
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ChordsAm C E G
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