The Great Correction chords by
Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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Key: E major
Verse 1
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Down on the corner of ruin and grace
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I'm growin' weary of the human race
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I hold my lamp up in everyone's face
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Lookin' for an honest man
Verse 2
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Everyone tied to the turnin' wheel
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Everyone hidin' from
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the things they feel
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Well the truth's so hard it just
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don't seem real
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The shadow across this land
Verse 3
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People round here don't
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know what it means
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To suffer at the hands of
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our American dreams
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They turn their backs on the
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grisly scenes
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Traced to the privileged sons
Verse 4
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They got their god they got their guns
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Got their armies and the chosen
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ones
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But we'll all be burnin'
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in the same big sun
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When the great correction comes
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Verse 5
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Down through the ages lovers
of the mystery
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Been sayin' people let your
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love light shine
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Poets and sages all through history
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Say the light burns brightest in the
darkest times
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Verse 6
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It's the bitter end we've
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come down to
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The eye of the needle that we
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gotta get through
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But the end could be the start
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of something new
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When the great correction comes
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Down to the wire runnin' out of time
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Still got hope in this heart of mine
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But the future waits on the horizon line
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For our daughters and our sons
Verse 8
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I don't know where
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this train's bound
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Whole lotta people tryin'
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to turn it around
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Gonna shout till the walls
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come tumblin' down
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And the great correction comes
Verse 9
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Don't let me down
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When the great correction comes

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