Key: B minor
Verse 1
G#m
F#
E
F#
G#m
Words and music by Arlo Guthrie
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E
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E
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E
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E
There's trouble all around the world
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E
F#
G#m
Well, it looks that way to me
F#
E
People don't know what to do
G#m
They don't know where
E
they should be
G#m
Verse 2
E
But just one question still remains
F#
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E
G#m
To which we must respond
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E
Two roads lead from where we are
D#sus4
D#
G#m
Which side are you on
E
F#
CHORUS: Are you
Verse 3
B
D#m
on, boys
D#
G#m
Which side are you on
E
B
D#m
Which side are you on, boys
D#
G#m
Which side are you on
E
G#m
E
F#
G#m
Verse 4
E
Moses crossed the desert
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E
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With a band of weary men
E
F#
For forty years they wandered through
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E
The hot and burning sand
G#m
Verse 5
E
F#
And Moses went and prayed alone
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E
G#m
The weary vagabond
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E
And lightning wrote these
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words in stone
D#
G#m
E
F#
B
D#m
Which side are you
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on
G#m
E
F#
B
D#m
Verse 6
D#
G#m
E
CHORUS
Interlude 1
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E
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E
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D#
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E
B
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E
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E
Jesus stumbling
Verse 7
through the streets
G#m
On the road to Calvary
E
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E
Nailed high to testify
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E
With other local thieves
G#m
Verse 8
E
And as they hung there dying
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E
G#m
One asked what lay beyond
E
That all depends the master said
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D#sus4
D#
G#m
E
Which side are
F#
B
D#m
D#
you on
CHORUS
G#m
E
F#
B
D#m
Verse 9
D#
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E
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E
F#
G#m
Some
E
men work for little things
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E
G#m
And some men work for more
E
Some men work for anything
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G#m
E
And some don't work at all
G#m
Verse 10
E
And me myself I'm satisfied
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E
G#m
To sing for God's own son
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E
And ask you what I ask myself
C#m
D#sus4
D#
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E
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B
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E
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B
D#m
Which side are
D#
you on
Outro 1
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B
D#m
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E
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B
D#m
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G#m
F#
E
C#m
D#
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