Key: E minor
Verse 1
F#m
C#m
Yeah, yeah
F#m
C#m
Oooooooh Ooooh
F#
B
C#m
Let my people go
F#
C#m
Oooooooh Oooh oh oh
F#
Let my people go
F#m
C#m
In the swamps of New Orleans
The rain came pouring down
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C#m
So heavy was the water
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F#m
That the walls came crashing down
C#m
Now I know a survivor
But how the hell you justify
F#
Leaving 100, 000 people
C#m
in water that high
F#
F#m
Just struggling for their lives
C#m
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
E
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
And we've got to find it
E
(Stand up) we've got to find it
F#
(Or fall down) we've got to find
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C#m
E
C#m
F#
E
C#m
it
E
C#m
Politicians are screaming
They say we've got a reason for war
G#
F#
F#m
E
F#
So many people are dying
F#m
And we ain't even sure what for
C#m
Is it because he's a Muslim?
Tell me is it democracy or is it the oath
F#m
F#
C#m
It's on the news every day
One paycheck away
And the President's on the golf course
F#
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
G#m
E
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
And we've got to find it
(You got to stand together) we've got
E
to find it
F#m
(Or we coud fall apart) we've got
C#m
to find it
B
Sweet buttered craw dad
F#
Delta bread
F#m
C#m
Hot pepper soul that's been sold out
B
C#m
Lives that were taken be
F#
fore they found out
A
C#m
B
What life was all about
C#m
F#
Started young sipping syrup
F#m
C#m
And it hurts me to my soul
The way he drinks away the pain
F#
The world's going to lose him
A
C#m
Another young superhero
We've got to find it [
A
C#m
I see the children on TV
It's become a sign of the times
F#
F#m
C#m
Glorifying their bodies
Something just don't feel right
Still we keep pretending
That boys and girls are men
and women
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E
We watch it and we call it entertainment
C#m
And everything is okay as long as
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C#m
somebody's get ting paid
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
I know there's got to be a
B
A
Better way
C#m
There's got to be a
A
Better way
C#m
And we've got to find it
E
We've got to find it
F#m
C#m
We've got to find it
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