Brother Martin chords by Nashville Session Players

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Verse 1
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Freedom, freedom, freedom all for me
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Was the darkest of many
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desperate days in 1968
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Before a nation lost her soul
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And a hail of bullets at Kent State
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Like our best friend in your prime
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They had to go and take you down
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And  I wonder how things would be today
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If you were still around
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Would mainstream radio still
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be just as one -sided?
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And would a nation called
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United be so divided?
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Would there be a nightmare every day
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somewhere in Iraq.
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And would soldiers have
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their own nightmare
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who somehow made it back?
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Would backlash from a clueless
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Congress still be barely starting?
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Oh, if you were here with us today,
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brother Mark
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Would children still be so afraid
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to go outside and play?
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As their future is discarded,
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would we still look the other way?
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Would a president still say,
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if you're not with us,
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you're against us?
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As veterans sitting in wheelchairs
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are called traitors
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When they protest,
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would World War III be just
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A stone's throw away from starting?
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Oh, if you were here with us today,
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Brother Martin
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Now though we were born
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with a different shade of skin
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Freedom rings within my soul
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Just like we're next of kin
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And before I'll be their slave
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I'll be buried in my grave
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And gone on to our home
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Free at last