For What It's Worth chords by The Staple Singers

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Intro 1

Verse 1

Something happen in here

What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

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Verse 2

It's time to stop, children,

what's that sound?

Everybody look what's

going down

Verse 3
G 
C 
Battle lines being drawn
G 
C 
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
G 
C 
Young people speaking their minds
G 
Gm 
Getting so much res
G 
C 
istance from behind
A 
It's time to

Verse 4
G 
stop, children,
C 
what's that sound?
Bb 
Everybody look what's
G 
going down
C 
G 
C 

Verse 5
G 
C 
What a field day for the heat
G 
C 
A thousand people in the street
G 
C 
Singing songs and carrying signs
G 
C 
Mostly say, hooray, for our side

Verse 6
C 
G 
It's time to stop, children,
C 
what's that sound?
Dm 
Everybody look what's
G 
C 
going down
G 
C 

Verse 7
Gm 
G 
C 
Paranoia strikes deep
Gm 
G 
C 
Into your life it will creep
G 
C 
It hurts when you're always afraid
G 
Step out of line,
Gm 
G 
C 
the man comes and takes you away
G 
It's time to stop,

Verse 8

children,

what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down

Verse 9
Stop, children, what's that sound?
Gm 
Everybody look what's going down
G 
Stop, children,
what's that sound?
Gm 
G 
Everybody look what's going down