Birmingham Sunday chords by
Anne Hills
Tom Paxton

N/A•

Key: E major•

Verse 1

D

D

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G

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D

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On Birmingham Sunday,

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G

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a noise shook the ground,

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D

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C

C

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A

A

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And people all over the earth turned around.

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D

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All over we followed the

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D

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cowardly sound,

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C

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And the choir kept singing of

freedom.

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D

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D

D

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G

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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Well Sunday has come...

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D

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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C

C

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D

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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C

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Come round by my side,

I'll sing you a song,

I'll sing it so softly it'll do no one wrong.

On Birmingham Sunday

the blood ran like wine

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C

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G

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Dsus4

Dsus4

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And the choir kept

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D

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singing a free song

That cold autumn morning,

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C

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no, I saw the sun

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D

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And Auntie May Collins,

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her number was one

Asus4

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D

D

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At an all -Baptist church

Dsus4

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Asus4

Asus4

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there was no need to run

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C

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And the choir kept singing

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of freedom

The clouds, were gray,

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and the autumn winds blew

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And Denise McNair brought

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the number to two

Asus4

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The falcon of death

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was the creature they knew

Asus4

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C

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An d the choir kept singing

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the freedom

The church, it was crowded

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so no one could see

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That Cynthia Wesley's

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dark number was three

Asus4

Asus4

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D

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Her prayers and her feelings

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Asus4

Asus4

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would shame you and me,

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C

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and the choir kept singing

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of freedom.

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Young Carol Robertson entered the door,

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and the number her killers

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had given was four.

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She asked for a blessing

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but asked for no more

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And the choir kept singing

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of freedom

On Birmingham Sunday

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a noise shook the ground

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D

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And people all over

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the earth turned around

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D

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For no one recalled

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a more cowardly sound

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And the choir kept singing

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C

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of freedom

The man in the forest,

he once asked of me

How many strawberries

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grow in the salt sea

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And I answer him back with

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Asus4

Asus4

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a tear in my eye

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How many ships sail in

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D

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the forest?

The Sunday has come

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and the Sunday has gone

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And I can't do much more

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than to sing you a song

Asus4

Asus4

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I'll sing it so softly it'll

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Asus4

Asus4

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do no one wrong

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And the choir keeps singing of freedom

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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner

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Chords

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Dsus4
Asus4

Capo: 2

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