Chords for Let Me Sing You a Song: Tribute to Pete Seeger by Joe Jencks

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You've asked me here to tell you [F] about my neighbors and my [C] friends to talk about the who and what _ _
Where and how and when? _ _
But I won't give you anything
_ [Fm] You don't already [C] know
_ But if you'd like I'll sing that list of songs before I go _ _
Let me sing you a song _ _ _
_ _ [F] about the people that I [Cm] love
_ _ _ Poets and philosophers
_ [F] _ the [C] workers and the _ wanderers
the ones who walk the picket [Fm] lines
Who dare to stand and fight [G] and the ones who hold their babies [C] close rock them through the night _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now you say it's un-American [F] to do the things [C] I do _
[G] Well, I sing for justice, [C] liberty
_ _ Civil rights, it's true _
_ But I say it's un-American _ [F] to ask me how I [C] vote _
[G] How I pray or what I [Cm] believe
[F] _ [C] Here's a song I wrote
_ Let me sing you a song
_ _ _ _ about [F] the people that I [C] love
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poets and philosophers
[F] _ the workers [C] and the _ wanderers
the ones who walk the picket lines
[F] Dare to stand and [C] fight [G] and the ones who hold their [C] babies close rock them through the night _ _ _
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_ [G] _ [C] If you want to send me to prison, I [F] guess that's the way it'll [C] be
_ Cuz I won't give you fodder for your paranoid _ machine
_ If the price of my silence is shackles, [F] well then fellas take me [C] away
_ [G] But I will [C] live to sing again and rise with a brand new day
_ _ Let me sing you a song _ _ _ _ _
[F] about the people that I love _
[G] _ _ Poets and philosophers
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[Fm] _ _ workers [C] and the _ wanderers
ones who walk the picket lines
[F] Dare to stand and [C] fight [G] and the ones [C] who hold their babies close rock them through the night
Let _ _ _ me sing you a song
_ _ _ _ about [F] the people that I [C] love _ _ _ _
Poets and philosophers
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workers [C] and the _ wanderers _
ones who walk the picket lines
[F] Dare to stand and [C] fight and the ones who hold their babies close rock them through the night
_ Yes, the ones who hold [G] their babies [C] [F] close rock [C] them [G] through the night
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