Basic Protest Song chords by
Harry Chapin
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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,
And you can taste it.
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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
CHORUS
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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
CHORUS
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