Chords for Gabriel Kahane - What If I Told You (Official Video)

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_ _ [A#m] What if I [F#] told you _ _ _ [D] that I'm on this train?
_ [E] _ _ _ Because [A] my two grown [G] sons [F] were frightened, _ me [Cm] driving through the night
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ [G] On a stretch [G#m] of farm stand highway _ [Em] in _ Mississippi _ _ _
Cause [C] they don't [F#] need a hood [A] or a [Em] cross or a dream
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_ _ [A#m] _ What if I told [F#] you _ that I'm headed to [G#] a funeral [C#] in Tupelo
_ On [A] the hundred acre farm [Am] _ purchased by [F#m] my [Em] great _ grandfather _ _
Who [C] _ longed to [G] read, _ _ _ _ _ cause [C] his _ _ [G] master's daughter _ _ _ _ _ taught [Am] him _ [E] secretly
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ Not knowing [Bm] what kind of _ schooling _ [B] his _ [F] own children would receive
He _ _ _ _ [Am] taught them never to [G#]
sign their names [Cm] on anything
_ _ Cause [D] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] they don't [F#] need a hood [A] or a cross [Em] or a dream
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] would he have believed _ _ _ _ that his great _ [G] _ granddaughter _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ All the way to the Ivy [G] _ League
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[B] Would he have _ believed _ the millions of dollars _
[Em] And _ _ _ [E] _ yet still unsafe _ [A] _ _ _
on [C#] that stretch [F] of farm stand highway
_ _ _ What _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [A#m] if I told [F#] you _ _ _ [D] that my eldest son
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_ _ [A] Loves a white girl [G]
whom [F] I adore
But _ [C] _ _
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who [Bm] lives in a [G] part of town where [C#] a black [D#] man might [G#m] be mistaken _ _ for
[A] Cause [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ they don't need [F#] a hood [A] or a cross [Em] or a dream
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] No, they don't need [F#] a hood or [A] a cross or [Em] a dream
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_ _ _ [C] if I told you all [G] of that _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Maybe you [G] would _ understand
_ _ _ Why [Am] I have limited [E] sympathy
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[Em] _ your [A] desire to know the suffering [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] of the working [C] white man _ _ _
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Monica _ [F#] explained _ _ _ _ [C] in the dining car
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] As we huddled south _ _ _ _ in [E] the growing dark _ _
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