In the World chords by Lead Belly
Verse 1
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But I mean, when the people listen,
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they go out and put their minds on the right thing,
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put their fists on the right thing,
vote for the right man,
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then we'll have a little peace
in the world.
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Yeah, if we don't get the right man,
we ain't gonna have
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no peace in the world.
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Cause I met an old man, he was around,
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he called himself something,
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he was a different type of man
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from how I was.
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But anyhow, where he come from,
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he was around about 75. He said, and I walked in the bar and drill, he said,
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look, my friend in the world said, I was down in Georgia in the world,
and so I was in the bar
and drill in the world,
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and said, I asked the man for a drink in the world,
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and said, he let me have it,
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and some colored people was back in the back in the world,
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and so I asked him, could I go back there and talk
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to them colored people in the world?
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He said, yes.
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And so I went back
there in the world
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and talked to the people in the world,
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and then I wanted to bring
them in.
Now, I come back
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and ask him, can I bring them in,
I want to give them a drink in the world.
He said,
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no, you can't bring them in here.
He said, well, but I don't
think that's right in the world.
C
I said, because I want
them to come
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and we'll all have a drink together
in the world.
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He said, look,
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would you have a drink on me in the world?
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I said, yes, I'll take a drink on you.
Well, he kept on, he said, well,
we're in the world.
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And I comes in, get my drinks in the world,
and I go home and get in the
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bed in the world.
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I don't have no wife in the world,
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but I think everybody's in
the world
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should be in the world.
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And so af ter a while, he talked so much,
and I said, look,
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would you take a drink on me in the world?
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know, got me used in the world.
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So ever since that time, I've been thinking about
the people in the world,
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and the one thing you can get peace.
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We all got to peace,
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get peace together
because we're in the world
together.
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So when you get peace,
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let it be in the world.
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Got to be in the world.
You what I mean?
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It's one of them things.
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Right, in the world.
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That man said that in the world,
I never heard nothing like it.
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Now you got it now.
In the World
Lead Belly
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