Everybody's Got A Right To Live chords by Pete Seeger
Verse 1
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Bernice Regan and I thought we would
kind of surprise you
with a couple extra people tonight
on the program.
Some of the best music
that I know I've heard
in the last year
was not made on any stage
or on any phonograph record,
but down in a very muddy little village
called Resurrection City in Washington,
D .C. and the song fests there held every evening
under the leadership of Reverend
Frederick Douglass
Kirkpatrick from Louisiana
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and Jimmy Collier from Chicago
and here they are now we are
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down in Washington
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feeling mighty sad thinking about
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an income that we never had.
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C
Everybody's got a right to
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live.
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D
Everybody's got a right to live.
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And before this campaign failed,
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we'd all go down in jail.
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C
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Everybody's got a right to live.
Black man picked the cotton
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a long time ago.
He has been a victim
C
since I brought him to the show.
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Black man dug the ditches,
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hewn down the pine,
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gave his trumpet to Jesus,
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kept on towing the line.
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Everybody's got a right to live.
Everybody's got a right to live.
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And before this campaign fails,
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we'll all go down in jail.
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Em
Everybody's got a right to live.
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Black men dug the pipelines
C
both night and day.
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Black men did the work
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while the white men got the pay.
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Now look here, Congress,
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this is a brand new day.
No more full -time work
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and no more part -time pay.
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Everybody's got a right to live.
D
Everybody's got a right to live.
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And before this campaign fails,
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we'll all go down in jail.
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Everybody's got a right to live.
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We want our share of silver.
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C
We want our share of gold.
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Won't I share a justice,
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cure our dying soul?
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Black man picked the cotton
C
a long time ago
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C
He has been the victim
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since they brought him to the show
C
Everybody's got a
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right to live
Everybody's got a right to live
D
C
G
And before this campaign fails,
C
we all go down in jail
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C
Everybody's got a right to live.
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Everybody's Got A Right To Live
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