Chords for Kris Kristofferson - The hero (Breakthrough, 1989)

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ Don't you like to see the hero take it a licks like a man?
Stand up and be tested [C] and be true.
_ Would you like to be a hero in your life?
Well you can. _ _
Did you know it's up [F] to you.
_ Would you trade your place with Jesus on the cross?
Would you be good _ _ shining [G] through [Bb] eternity?
_ _ [C] Would it bother you to know that you can be just as good _ as you really [F] want to be?
_ And if you're bound to do your duty then it's time that you do. _
Look your future in the [C] face.
_ For the most important person in the world which is you. _
For the whole [F] damn human race.
_ There's a holy band of angels flying high in the night. _
Where no mortal [Bb] ever tried.
[C] Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh Jesus Christ. _ _
_ _ [F] Lord almighty God. _ _ _
See _ the good thing is you don't have to be as good as Jesus to start out with.
_ [C] All you got to do is ask yourself [F] [C] how would Gary Cooper have done it?
Or John Kennedy?
Or Martin Luther King?
Or Malcolm X?
[F] _ _ _ There's a holy band of angels flying high in the night. _
Where no mortal ever [Bb] tried.
Singing [C]
holy, holy, _ _ holy, _ _ holy, oh Jesus Christ.
Lord almighty [F] God. _ _ _
_ _ Singing holy, holy, _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
holy, holy, holy, _ _ holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Angels flying high [N] _
in the night.
A hero _ to me is a person who has _ _ _ _ committed himself to something larger than himself.
To something outside of himself.
To _ _ _ living _ _ and dying _ _ for his people.
A hero to me is