I'm Alive chords by Danny Red

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Verse 1
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 (E minor) Yes,  (B minor) alive,  (E minor) alive  (G major)  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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I  (G major)  (B minor)  (E minor) was  (C major)  (G major)  (B minor)  (E minor) a captured  (C major) man
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 (B major) on  (E minor) a plantation I thought  (C major)  (B minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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Cutting  (C major) sugarcane  (B major) with a
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 (E minor) gusset by my side
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I  (B minor)  (E minor) was determined  (B major) to
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 (B minor)  (E minor) run away and hide
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 (G major) But  (B minor) the  (E minor) masters caught
me and hung me
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in  (B major) the  (E minor) spring of 1835
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But  (C major) I'm still alive,  (E minor) I'm  (C major)  (E minor) still alive,
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I'm  (B major)  (E minor) still alive, I'm still  (G major) alive,
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 (E minor) yes I'm still alive  (G major) 
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 (C major) I  (E minor) was a stolen  (G major) wo (B minor) man
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on  (E minor) a ship that rowed the tide  (C major) 
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The  (F major)  (E minor) stench and cries  (B minor) echoed
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 (E minor) all the time  (C major)  (B minor) 
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 (C major) I  (E minor) know what to  (G major) do,
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 (B minor) now  (E minor) I've made my mind  (C major) 
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 (B minor) Overboard  (C major)  (E minor) was a better place,  (G major) 
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so  (B minor) I    (E minor) jumped over the side
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But  (C major) I'm still alive,  (F major) 
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 (E minor) I'm  (B minor)  (E minor) still alive,
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I'm  (C major)  (F major) still alive,  (E minor) I'm still  (B minor) alive,
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 (E minor) I'm still  (B minor) alive  (E minor)  (B minor) 
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I  (E minor) worked in a diamond mine,
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 (B major)  (B minor)  (E minor) steep and a hill
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The  (C major)  (D major)  (E minor) worst condition (C major) s to work  (B major) in,
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 (E minor) but we died at till
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 (B minor) The  (E minor) war came down in the mine  (B minor) cave
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in 28  (E minor) of us garden
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Buried  (C major)  (E minor) alive in a grave  (B minor) of  no name,
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 (E minor) but we're living still
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 (C major) Yes,  (B minor)  (E minor) we're alive
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Yes we're  (B minor) alive  (E minor) 
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 (C major) Yes,  (B major)  (E minor) we're alive, yes,
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 (B minor)  (E minor) we're alive  (C major)  (B major)  (B minor)  (E minor)  (G major)  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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I  (E minor) had a family in  (B major)  (E minor) a place called Rwanda
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I had  (B minor)  (D major)  (E minor) many hopes for  (B major) 
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 (E minor) my  sons and my daughter
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Chances were taken  (B minor) away
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with  (E minor) no real answer
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We  (B minor) were  (E minor) all gathered together
and slaughtered
by the hands of our neighbor
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But  (B minor) we're alive,  (E minor) yes we're alive
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 (B minor) But we're  (E minor) alive,  (G major) yes  (B minor) we're  (B major) alive  (E minor) 
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Yes we're  (B minor) alive
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We're still alive  (E minor) 
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Yes, we're  (C major) alive  (E minor) 
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Yes, we're  (G major) alive  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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Yes, we're  (B major)  (B minor)  (E minor) alive
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 (B minor) We're still alive  (E minor) 
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 (F major) An  (E minor) empty bag will not  (B minor) stand
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up when the wind  (E minor) blows
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So the spir (C major) it and  (E minor) the soul
must have a place to go
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As  (C major)  (E minor) long as we remember
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those who played a  (B minor) role
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They  (E minor) will stand up alive beside  (G major) us,
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never for (E minor) gotten souls
Yes, we're alive
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Yes, we're  (B minor) alive  (E minor) 