Misc: Other : Carsie Blanton

Capo:

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C

Am

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x2

C

Am

F

G

Jesus Christ was a handsome man

C

Am

F

G

He had nothing to hide

C

Am

F

G

He said, give bread to hungry

F

G

C

Bring the homeless inside

C

Am

F

G

Jesus Christ was a dangerous man

C

Am

F

G

That's the way that he died

C

Am

F

Em

Saying, be good to the people you love

F

G

C

And love everybody alive

C

Am

F

G

Be good to the people

C

Am

F

G

Be good to the people

C

Am

F

Em

Be good to the people you love

F

G

C

And love everybody alive Dr King was a preacher He had God on his side He said, all God's children are brothers Don't cast your brother aside Dr King was dangerous Man That's the way that he died Saying, Be good to the people you love And love everybody alive Be good to the people Be good to the people Be good to the people you love And love everybody alive

Dm

F

C

There ain't nothing more criminal than kindness

Dm

F

C

There ain't nothing more valuable than blindness

Dm

F

Am

We'll make anyone a martyr who'll remind us

F

G

Everybody got a right to be free Be good to the people Be good to the people Be good to the people you love And love everybody alive Be good to the people Be good to the people Be good to the people you love

F

G

C

E7

(

F

) And love everybody alive (love everybody alive) And love everybody alive (love everybody alive) And love everybody alive

C

G

Am

F

You got a way about you, baby

C

G

Am

Dm

I got a hunger for you, man it's killing me

C

G

Am

F

I'm gonna want you till they lay me in my grave

C

G

Am

F

You can put on your Sunday suit and dance in my parade

C

G

Am

F

I could die in a flood, shedding blood, or a fire

C

G/b

Am

If I don't die of desire

C

G/b

C

If I don't die of desire I saw the Mississippi when I was a child I wanted to jump into that river running wild My mama told me, when she took me in her arms All of the things we long for will come to do us harm I could die in a flood, shedding blood, or a fire If I don't die of desire If I don't die of desire

Instrumental over chorus chords

F

C

When they lay me in my grave

G

Am

They're gonna say that I lived right

G

Dm

They're gonna cry for me all night

F

G

They're gonna laugh at my epitaph You can live like a king, you can sing in the choir But we all die of desire We all die of desire

Capo:

-I

C

F

C

It isn't safe out here, it's perfectly clear

F

G

I should've known it was a big mistake

C

F

C

I could've stayed at home, not answered the phone

F

G

And never given you my heart to break

F

C

But lovers run to ruin, soldiers run to war

E

Am

Ships are safe in harbor, but it ain't what ships are for

F

C

Hearts are made for breaking, you were made for me

E

F

C

So batten down the hatches, honey, we'll sail away to sea We had a lot to learn and courage to burn We were the cutest little fools in town I was an awful mess, but you were the best And I was trying not to let you down Lovers run to ruin, soldiers run to war Ships are safe in harbor, but that ain't what ships are for Love is for the making, and you were made for me So batten down the hatches, honey, we'll sail away to sea

Am

F

It can seem insane

Dm

C

The wind and the rain

Dm

C

G

Howling through the dark of the night But when the stars come out The darkest of doubts Is nothing to the joy of their light It isn't safe out there, and you're getting scared And, honey, you got every right to be But the time is now, so steady the prow And go ahead into the mystery But lovers run to ruin, soldiers run to war Ships are safe in harbor, but it ain't what ships are for Hearts are made for breaking, you were made for me So batten down the hatches, honey, we'll sail away to sea

Capo:

II

A

C#m

D(v)

Hello Comrade, did you make it home alive?

Bm

D

E

Do you remember how we said that we would laugh if we survived?

A

C#m

D(v)

I ain't laughing, just sleeping pretty hard

Bm

D

E

Do you remember how you looked at me and yelled across the yard?

D

A

E

F#m

A hundred years and I'll cry just like a kid

D

E

Well I know we didn't beat 'em but I'm proud of what we did Hello Comrade, are you back at work today? Guess it's true what's they've been telling us: terrorism doesn't pay How they hate us here, back in the home of the brave But we know they'll celebrate us when we're safely in our grave

D

A

E

A

So come on by the house and we can talk about it all

D

A

Bm

E

Soldiers in the schoolyard while a thousand lawyers break the law

D

A

Bm

E

F#m

Presidents deny it, you won't hear it on the news

D

But the writing's on the prison wall

Dm

Bm

E

A

F#m

E

All them fascists bound to lose! Hello Comrade, did you hear what people say? Italy was burning all the time we were away Lima and Nepal, in Berlin they stopped the trains They occupied the parliament in Portugal and Spain

D

A

E

A

Singing, there is only one solution: intifada, revolution

Bm

E

Playing our song now... oh, it can't long now Hello Comrade, don't it strike you kinda strange? You're on the side of freedom so they put you in a cage There will come a day when a hundred thousand sail When all the world is with us they can't fit us all in jail So come on by the house and we can talk about it all Soldiers in the schoolyard while a thousand lawyers break the law Presidents deny it, you won't hear it on the news But the writing's on the prison wall

Dm

Bm

E

A

All them fascists bound to lose! All them fascists bound to lose! All them fascists bound to lose!

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