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The Great Correction chords by Joan Baez

  • D

  • A

  • G

  • Em

  • F#m

    2
Verse 1
D
A
Down on the corner of ruin and grace
G
D
I'm growin' weary of the human race
G
D
I hold my lamp up in everyone's face
A
Lookin' for an honest man
Verse 2
G
A
Everyone tied to the turnin' wheel
G
Everyone hidin' from
D
the things they feel
G
Well the truth's so hard it just
D
don't seem real
A
D
The shadow across this land

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Verse 3
D
People round here don't
A
know what it means
G
To suffer at the hands of
D
our American dreams
G
They turn their backs on the
D
grisly scenes
A
Traced to the privileged sons
Verse 4
G
A
They got their god they got their guns
G
Got their armies and the chosen
D
ones
G
But we'll all be burnin'
D
in the same big sun
A
When the great correction comes
D
Verse 5
Em
F#m
Down through the ages lovers
of the mystery
G
Been sayin' people let your
D
Em
love light shine
F#m
Poets and sages all through history
G
Say the light burns brightest in the
darkest times
A
G
Verse 6
F#m
Em
A
D
It's the bitter end we've
A
come down to
G
The eye of the needle that we
D
gotta get through
G
But the end could be the start
D
of something new
A
When the great correction comes
Interlude 1
D
A
G
D
G
D
A
G
A
G
D
G
D
A
D
Verse 7
D
A
Down to the wire runnin' out of time
G
D
Still got hope in this heart of mine
G
D
But the future waits on the horizon line
A
For our daughters and our sons
Verse 8
G
I don't know where
A
this train's bound
G
Whole lotta people tryin'
D
to turn it around
G
Gonna shout till the walls
D
come tumblin' down
A
D
G
And the great correction comes
Verse 9
D
Don't let me down
A
D
When the great correction comes
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