Basic Protest Song chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: Bb major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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CHORUS: So your 13 and there's

a silent

scream out there,

And you can hear it.

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Just your basic protest song.

Verse 2

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Now your 16 and there's a danger in the air,

And you can see it.

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Just your ba sic protest song.

Verse 3

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Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere,

And you can feel it.

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Just your ba sic protest song.

Verse 4

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Now your 30 and it's to late now to care,

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Just your basic protest song

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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

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And at 16 I don't know to much but I'll

tell you what I do know,

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If you do not give a damn I'll

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tell you where to go.

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There is something truly crazy

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with our patriotic song,

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We know to wave the flag round the week begins

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a strong.

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Interlude 1

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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

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I'm passin' on through

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30 got two kids of my own,

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Got a wife, house, a car,

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and dog but still I am alone.

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And I'm tired of only selling

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cause it's my self that I sell,

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I'm glad of always buying cause

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I can 't buy it ourselves.

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I know none of us is perfect I can

Verse 9

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see myself to well,

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If we can't push for paradise we're settled

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in for hell.

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Outro 1

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Eb
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D
G
Cm
Bb
Gm
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Eb
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G
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Bb
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