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Basic Protest Song chords by 
Harry Chapin
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Intro 1
C
D
C
B
E
Am
G
Em
Am
G
Em
Am
Verse 1
Am
CHORUS: So your 13 and there's
a silent
scream out there,
And you can hear it.
Bm
Am
Just your basic protest song.
Verse 2
Am
Now your 16 and there's a danger in the air,
And you can see it.
Bm
Am
Just your ba sic protest song.
Verse 3
Am
Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere,
And you can feel it.
D
Bm
Am
Just your ba sic protest song.
Verse 4
Am
Now your 30 and it's to late now to care,
And you can taste it.
C
Just your basic protest song
D
C
B
E
Am
Verse 5
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Well, I just turned 13 don't know
what I wanna be,
I don't have much experience
but I'll tell you what I see.
When I hear the record sing and baby,
baby I love you,
It seems to me we all got
so much lovin left to do.
Verse 6
C
And at 16 I don't know to much but I'll
tell you what I do know,
D
If you do not give a damn I'll
F
tell you where to go.
Am
There is something truly crazy
C
with our patriotic song,
D
F
We know to wave the flag round the week begins
C
D
C
B
E
Am
a strong.
D
Am
Interlude 1
CHORUS
Am
D
Am
Bm
Am
C
D
C
B
E
Am
G
Am
D
Am
C
Am
Oh now that I
Verse 7
am 20 got my
first full time job,
My boss, upstanding citizen,
finds legal ways to rob.
They say forget what you believe
forget what you have seen,
But I know I lost the best of me when
I forgot my dreams.
Verse 8
Am
I'm passin' on through
C
30 got two kids of my own,
D
Got a wife, house, a car,
F
and dog but still I am alone.
Am
And I'm tired of only selling
C
cause it's my self that I sell,
D
I'm glad of always buying cause
F
I can't buy it ourselves.
Am
I know none of us is perfect I can
Verse 9
C
see myself to well,
D
F
If we can't push for paradise we're settled
C
D
C
B
E
Am
in for hell.
Bm
Am
Outro 1
CHORUS
Am
D
Am
Bm
Am
C
D
C
B
E
Am
G
Em
Am
G
Em
Am
Am
Am
G
Em
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