They Couldn't Take The Music chords by
Tom Paxton
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Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I never really knew you,
I was a couple of years too young
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By the time I came of age,
the song of your life was sung
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From the hills of Oklahoma
to the North Atlantic seas
From the cries of the hungry children
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to the eyes of the deportees.
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They could take away your money,
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they could take away your land,
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Drive you out on the endless highway,
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leave you out on the desert sand.
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They could take the food
from your hungry mouth
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and lock you in the hole,
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But they couldn't take the music
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Am
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from your soul.
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No, they couldn't take the music
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from your soul.
Just another scruffy -oaky,
just a dust -bowl refugee,
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Headin' on out to California,
a little bit low on the do -re -mi.
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And everywhere you wandered,
you saw poor folks treated wrong,
And you made those poor
folks your whole life,
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and you made your life a song
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They could take away your money,
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they could take away your land
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Drive you out on the endless highway,
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leave you out on the desert sand
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They could take you from
your hungry mouth
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C

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and lock you in the hole
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G

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But they couldn't take the music
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Am
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from your soul
G
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No, they couldn't take music
C
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from your soul
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C

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Oh, they called you a dangerous,
radical one
They called you a rabbit red
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But it never really mattered
All the stupid things they said
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All those lies and all those liars
Are all over the hill and gone
While your songs are still here singing
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And still rolling to you in your arms
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And they could take away your money
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They could take away your land
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They could drive you out
on the Inlet Highway
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And leave you out on the desert sand
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They could take the food
from your hungry mouth
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And lock you in the hole
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But they couldn't take the music
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from your soul
Am
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G
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No, couldn't take the
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music from your soul
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And this land was made for you and me
Outro 1
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