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Seek And You Shall Find easy guitar chords by
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
G

C

Seeking You shall find
G

Knock and the door shall be opened

Ask and it shall be given
Bm

When the love come tum
D
G

bling down

Sneaking you shall find,
C
G

knock and the door shall be opened high,

and it shall be given
D
G

when the love come tumbling down.

There was once a king

in the olden days.

He had three sons,

and he wanted to give them

a good education.

He called in his wise men,

and he said, I wish you'd boil down

all the world's wisdom

into one book,

and I'm going to give it to my sons

and have them learn it.

So the wise men went away,

took them a whole year,

and they came back with a beautiful leather

-bound volume trimmed in gold.

The king leafed through it,

hmm, very good, hmm, yes, this is it.

And he gives it to his sons

and said, OK, learn it.

Then he turned to the wise men.

He said, you know, you did such

a good job with that.

I wonder if you couldn't boil down

all the world's wisdom

into one sentence.

Well, the wise men went away.

It took them five years.

When they came back,

their beards must have

been dragging on the ground.

They said, your majesty,

we have decided upon a sentence.

What is it, says the king?

this too shall pass.

I guess the king didn't have anything

better to do with his wise men.

He said, wonder if you couldn't boil down

all the world's wisdom

into one word.

Poor men must have groaned.


They went away.

It took him ten years.

When they came back,

they're all bent over.

The king said, oh yes, what was

that word?

He'd forgotten all

about his little whim.

He said, your majesty, the

One word is maybe.
C

Seek and you shall find.

Knock and the door shall be opened.
G

Ask and it shall be given
D
G

when the love come tumbling down.

There was another king

in another country

in the olden days.

He was sitting in his palace one day.

and a messenger came,

your majesty, your majesty,

a sea captain has landed on your coast

and in the hold of his vessel

is a strange animal called an elephant.

Well, the king was

busy enjoying himself.

He said to his wise men, he said,

I wish you'd go down

and bring me back a report.

So the wise men got in the carriages

and they were all taken down

to the coast

and they went on board the ship.

But you know, they'd all been reading books so long,


they were blind as bats.

And the first wise men,

he felt the leg of the elephant,

and he says, hmm.

The next one feels the side

of the elephant,

hmm, says he.

The next one felt the ear of the elephant,

hmm, says he.

The next one felt the tusk

of the elephant,

and the next one felt the trunk,

and the last one pulled on the tail.

Well, they all got back in the carriages,


and they all went back to the king.

The king says, now,

what manner of beast

is this elephant?
F
G

And the first wise man bowed low

and said, your majesty,

this elephant is very like unto the

trunk of a small tree.

You're completely wrong,

said the next one.

I spelt it myself.

It's like the side of a building.

Oh, you're both wrong,

says the third.

It's like a big leaf of a large plant.

The third says, no, no, no,

you're all wrong.

It's like a smooth spear.
D
G

No, no, no, says the next.

It's like a big snake.

And the last one says, your majesty,

you know I'm right.

It's like a rope hanging

down from heaven.

You pull on it,

and the heavens open up with waste.
C

See, and you shall find, knock,
D
G

and the door shall be
D

G

I got a story about two little maggots,


you know, little worms.

They were sitting on

the handle of a shovel.

The shovel was in a workshop

and early in the morning a workman came,


put the shovel on his shoulder

and started down the street to work.

Well, the two little maggots

held on as long as they could,

but finally they jiggled off

and one fell down

into a crack in the sidewalk

and the next fell off onto the curb

and from the curb
D
G

he fell into a cat, a very dead cat.

Well, the second maggot

just started in eating

and he ate and he ate and he ate

for three days.

He couldn't eat anymore.

He finally said,

I think I'll go hunt up my brother.

And the second maggot humped

himself up over the curb,

humped along the sidewalk,
C
G

came to the crack, he leaned and said,

hello, you down there, brother?

Yes, I'm down here all right.

I've been here for three days

without a bite to eat

or a drop to drink,

I'm nearly starved to death.

but you you're so sleek and fat

do what do you attribute your success

brains and personality
C

brother brains and personality
D
G


D
G


I got one more story it's

about Columbus

Christopher Columbus

1492 sailed the ocean blue

and all that 40 days and 40

nights

and they almost starved

to death

and almost had a mutiny

and they were ready to

give up and go home

when they saw land green land
D

Columbus ordered the little boat
G

to anchor offshore

and he got into a still smaller boat,


a little lifeboat, I guess,

and he went in through the surf,

threw himself on his knees in the sand.

Then he planted the big

yellow and red flag

of King Ferdinand and Isabella.

Then looking up,

Columbus saw two brown faces

looking at him from the bushes.

Columbus says, Buenos dias, senoras!

And one Indian said to the other,

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

Seek and you shall find
C

Knock and the door shall be opened
D
G

An d it shall be good
D

When the love comes a -thundering
G

Yeah, seek, seek,

seek and you shall find
C
G

The lock and the door shall be opened

Ask and it shall be given
D
G

When the lock comes tumbling down

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