Key: B minor
Verse 1
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Words and music by Arlo Guthrie
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There's trouble all around the world
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Well, it looks that way to me
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People don't know what to do
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They don't know where
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they should be
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Verse 2
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But just one question still remains
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To which we must respond
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Two roads lead from where we are
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Which side are you on
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CHORUS: Are you
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on, boys
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Which side are you on
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Which side are you on, boys
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Which side are you on
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Verse 4
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Moses crossed the desert
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With a band of weary men
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For forty years they wandered through
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The hot and burning sand
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Verse 5
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And Moses went and prayed alone
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The weary vagabond
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And lightning wrote these
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Which side are you
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Verse 6
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CHORUS
Interlude 1
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Jesus stumbling
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through the streets
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On the road to Calvary
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Nailed high to testify
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With other local thieves
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And as they hung there dying
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One asked what lay beyond
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That all depends the master said
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Which side are
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you on
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Verse 9
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Some
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men work for little things
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And some men work for more
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Some men work for anything
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And some don't work at all
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Verse 10
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And me myself I'm satisfied
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To sing for God's own son
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And ask you what I ask myself
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Which side are
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