Key: E major
Verse 1
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I have a dream, it's a dream
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deeply rooted in the American dream,
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I have a dream that one day
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this nation will rise up
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an d live out the true
meaning of its creed,
we hold these truths to be self -evident
that all men are created equal.
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I have a dream one day
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an d the sons of former slave owners
will be able to sit down together
at the table of brotherhood,
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even in the state of Mississippi,
a state sweltering with the
heat of injustice,
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sweltering with the heat of oppression
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I have a dream today
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America that one day
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will be able to live in a nation
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by the color of their skin
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I have a dream that one day
every valley shall be exalted,
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every hill and mountain
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The rough places will be made plain
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And the crooked places
will be made straight
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that I go back to the South with
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we will be able to work together
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Go to jail together
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Knowing we will be free one day
And this will be the day
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will be able to sing with new meaning.
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My country, tears of thee,
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of thee I sing.
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Land where our fathers died,
let freedom ring
from the practices hilltops
from the muddy mountains of New York,
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Let freedom ring
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Let freedom ring
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from every mountainside.
And we will allow freedom to ring.
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We'll let it rain from every
city and every hamlet,
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We will be able to speed up that day
with all of God's children.
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Black men, white men,
Jew and Gentile,
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and Catholic all joining hands.
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Singing the words of the
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old Negro spirit.
Free at last!
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Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G Eb
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