It Won't Take Long chords by Indigo Girls
Verse 1
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They said some men would
be warriors
Some men would be kings
Some men would be owners of land
And other man-made things
things
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False love as the eternal flame
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Would move some to think in rings
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And gold would be our power
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Em
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And other foolish things
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Em
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And you who dream of liberty
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Must not yourselves be fooled
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Before you get to plea for freedom
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You've agreed to being ruled
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If the body stays a shackle
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Then the mind remains a chain
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And that will link you to your destiny
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Where by other souls are slain
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It won't take long
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It won't take too long at all
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Three men in a desert wandering
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One is knowing and two
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are scared
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They say time is in the river
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Oh but the river is not there
Dry in spirit
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Dry in body
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Two will lend themselves to death
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And in grief one weeps into his hands
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And drinks his bitter tears
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'cause it don't take long
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It don't take too long at all
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No it don't take long
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You may say
I don't know what you're talking about
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And I say
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You mean to tell me that's all
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And I stand before you now
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I am hopeful in my rage
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You know love has finally called for me
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I will not wilt upon its stage
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But you know still smaller
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than my nightmare
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Now do I print upon the page
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And do we have to live inside its walls
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To identify the cage
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'cause it takes so long
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Why does it take so long
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And it takes so long
You may say
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I don't really care what
you're talking about
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I'm gonna ask you
You trying to tell me you don't belong
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I am my mother's daughter
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But I have seen myself in you
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It's this blessing that I follow now
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And so I must speak true
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I dreamed of thousands dying
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It was you and you and you
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And while the city sleeps so quietly
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There is something we must do
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And it won't' take long
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It won't take too long at all
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It won't take long
May say
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I don't know if I want to know
what you're getting at
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It makes me want to say
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So long
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Grief shall come in measures
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Only grief alone will know
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And you'll see it on your family
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And on your own face it will grow
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Then they'll try to keep you hungry
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And they'll tell you to eat snow
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You know pride can be a moving thing
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If we learn the strength of no
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And it won't take long
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It won't take too long at all
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No it won't take long
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You may say
I don't think this has anything to do with me
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Did you ever think you could be wrong
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At noon on one day coming
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Human strength will fill the streets
Of every city on our planet
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Hear the sound of
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angry feet
With business freezed up
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in the harbour
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The kings will pull upon their hair
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And the banks will shudder to a halt
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And the artists will be there
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'cause it won't take long
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It won't take too long at all
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No it won't take long
And you may say
F
I don't think I can be a part of that
G
And it makes me want to say
Don't you want to see yourself that strong
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Dm
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Division between the peoples
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Will disappear that honoured day
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And though oceans lie between us
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Lifted candles light the way
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Half will join their hands by moonlight
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The rest under the rising sun
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As underneath the sun and moon
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A ritualed wailing has begun
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And it won't take long
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It won't take too long at all
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And it won't take long
And you may say
F
I don't know how to be a part
of what you're talking about
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And it makes me want to say
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Come on
Dm
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Dm
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Come on
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Oh beware you sagging diplomats
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For you will not hear one gun
And though our homes be
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torn and ran sacked
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We will not be undone
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For as we let ourselves
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be bought
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We're gonna let ourselves be free
And if you think we stand alone
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Take a look around and you will see
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We are children in the rafters
We are babies in the park
We are lovers at the movies
We are candles in the dark
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We are changes in the weather
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We are snowflakes in July
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We are women grown together
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We are men who easily cry
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We are words no quickly spoken
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We're the deeper side of try
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We are dreamers in the making
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We are not afraid of why
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It Won't Take Long
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