Tonart: B major
Verse 1
G
F#
All I ever wanted for my baby
F
Was to have a better life
Em
Than the good lord gave me
Eb
D
To turn my back on the motherland
G
We spirit wrestlers have
F
Em
Eb
But I never thought we'd sail so far away
D
C
I feel the sea in me I'm wavering
G
D
F
E
Ooh, we'll do the best we can do
Eb
D
Continuous, brave, pacifist,
C
Eb
D
we'll help each other through
G
D
G
F
Ooh, we'll do the best we
Em
Eb
D
C
can do
G
When we reached the other
D
F#
shore I felt steadier
F
E
Then by rail we all felt better
Eb
D
C
Yet still, my son would not calm down
G
F#
Now this thought haunts me
F
We'd come so far so fast
Em
Eb
Perhaps his nature was shaped
D
C
G
by the ceaseless motion of our path
D
F
Ooh, how is a woman to soothe
C
E
Eb
all these restless souls as
D
C
Eb
they're adapting?
D
G
D
F
C
Ooh, we'll do the best we can do
Eb
D
C
While the men work, I will work in and do the planting
G
F#
F
Em
Eb
Dm
C
G
D
F#
F
Em
C
Eb
D
C
G
D
F#
I have been working my
Em
E
Eb
But I can't replace
C
home
G
D
Sometimes, like I promise,
F
we're together and he shines
Em
Eb
D
But it's never soon or long enough
C
for a young man's timeline
G
D
I know why you're so sad,
F
C
boy, I can feel it in me too
Eb
D
C
Would you let me sing a hymn with you?
G
D
I know why you're so sad, boy
F#
F
E
I can feel it in me too
Eb
But those men aren't talking
D
C
sense to you
D
Eb
D
F
C
Those men aren't talking sense to you
G
D
I remember how it sounded
F
when we were 4 ,000 strong
C
G
D
But now we're scattered like the gravel
F
C
from the road we walked here on
D
G
D
And the bushes crept into
F
us like a tale so often told
C
G
We're like the other ones,
it's been broken
D
F
And the strangest ways take hold
D
G
We're like the other ones,
F
G
And the strangest ways take hold
We're like the other ones,
F
C
And the strangest ways take hold
G
We're like the other ones,
it's been broken
D
F
C
And the strangest ways take hold
D
G
I'm gonna make you all
my own sons of a bitch
D
I'm gonna you all my own sons
F
C
It's gonna be the best night ever
I'm gonna make
G
best ever
F#
F
Em
When he asked me that question
E
Eb
D
Cause I know what the sons of freedom do
G
D
I couldn't tell him what it was
F
Em
that he needed me to say
Eb
D
Cause he who lives by the sword
C
G
has cut all hope away
D
F
Ooh, what is a mother to do
Am
F
Eb
When there's no tenderness left
D
C
Eb
D
G
D
in the seed she planted
F
I don't know what I can do
Eb
D
C
Since this prairie's made a wolf of you
Eb
D
C
F
G
D
This prairie's made a wolf of you
F
Em
Eb
D
Dm
Thank you for watching!
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