Long walk to d.c. chords by The Staple Singers

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Verse 1
G 
Gm 
Cm 
C 
It's a long walk to D.C.
Cm 
But I've got my walking shoes on a way,
a way
C 
I can't take a plane, passer train
Am 
Because my money ain't that
G 
C 
long (ooh ooh ooh)
G 
America we believe (we believe)
Oh that you love us still (love us still)
So people I'm gonna be
under (yeah)
To wipe away my tears
Cm 
I'll tell ya,

Verse 2
ooh yeah
C 
It's a long walk to D.C. but I'm on,
ooh, yes, I am
Cm 
C 
Ooh yeah,
but I know I'll make it some day
I know it's a whole lot
of rocks and rifts
Before I make it there (gotta keep
moving on)
Should've been going on yesterday
F 
C 
But today I am a leaving here

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Verse 3

I've got a dime for some coffee (yeah)

I got a dime to buy me a cake (oh yeah)

I gotta see the president no

matter what it takes

I'll tell yah,

It's a long walk to D.C., yeah

But I'm lonely, oh yes I am ooh, yeah

But I know I'll make it some day

Verse 4
C 
I know that it's a whole lots
of rocks and rifts
Before I make it there (gotta keep
moving on)
I should have been going on yesterday
F 
G 
C 
But today I am a leaving here
(keep moving on)
G 
I've got a dime for some
coffee (yeah)
Another dime to buy me a
cake (ooh yeah)
I gotta see the president,
no matter what it takes
Cm 
G 
I'll tell ya, it's a

Verse 5
C 
Cm 
C 
long walk to D.C. yeah
But I'm on, ooh, you don't
need to hear me now
Ooh yeah, but I know I'll make
Cm 
C 
it some day
I'm gonna step out of Jackson
now (gotta keep moving on)
Our Mississippi town
(I'm moving, moving)
Through Alabama (gotta keep
moving on)
Haw, you know I'm Memphis bound
(I'm moving, moving)
North Carolina (gotta keep moving