Chords for Logic - Obediently Yours (Official Audio)

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_ _ _ I've spoken these words [F#] before but not on the radio.
[C] To be born [G#] free is to be born [F#m] in debt.
To live in freedom without fighting slavery.
The [A] profiteer.
[F#m] _ I [G#m] have met Southerners who [A] expect and fear [G#] a Negro insurrection.
I [A] see no purpose in withholding this from general discussion.
[G#m] There may be those [A] within that outcast, 10% of the American people,
who someday will strike back at their oppressors.
[G#] But [F#m] to put down that mob, a [A] mob would rise.
_ _ [G#m] I'd like to ask, please, [A]
who will put down that [A] mob?
I'm an overpaid producer [G#] with pleasant reasons [A] to rejoice,
and I do, in the wholesome practicability of the profit system.
[C#] But surely my right to having more [D#] than enough is cancelled
[D] if I don't use that more to help those [G#] who have less.
I owe [F] the very profit I make to the people [E] I make it from. _
This is radicalism [D#] that comes automatically [C#] to most of us
in show business as being generally agreed that
any public man owes his position to the public.
[A] That's what I mean when I [C#] say I'm your obedient servant.
[Bm] We must each day earn [C#] what we own.
A healthy man owes [G#m] to the sick all that he can do for them.
An [E] educated man owes to the ignorant all that he can do for them.
A [C#] free man owes to the world's [C#m] slaves all that he can do for them.
And what is to be done is [F#] more, much more, than good works,
Christmas [G#m] baskets, bonuses and tips, [E] and bread and [G#m] circuses.
[A] There is only one thing to be done [E] with slaves.
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Free them.
[C#m] _ _ _ We can't [E] die on behalf of progress.
We [F#] can live for it.
Progress, we Americans take to mean a fuller realization of democracy.
The measure of progress, as we understand it,
[C#] is the measure of [C#m] equality enjoyed by all men.
[F#m] We [F#] can do something about that.
The way [F#] our fighting brothers and sisters looked at it,
some [E] of them dead as I speak these words,
the way they looked at it, [F#m] we're lucky.
[D] And they're right, we're lucky to be [F#] alive,
but only if our lives make [C#] life itself worth dying [F#] for.
We must be worthy of our luck or we are damned.
Our lives were [C#m] spared, but this is merely the silliest of accidents.
[F#] Unless we put the gift of life to the hard employments of justice.
If we waste that gift,
we won't [C#] have anywhere to [F#] hide from the indignation of history. _ _
[C#m] _ I want to say this.
_ [F#] The morality of the auction block is out of date.
There is [G#] no room in the [Em] American century [E] for Jim Crow.
[Em] _ Tomorrow's democracy [C#] [F#] discriminates against discrimination.
_ Its charter won't include the freedom to end freedom.
_ Race [C#m] hate isn't human [E] nature.
Race hate is the [G#] abandonment of human nature.
[F#] But this is true.
_ There are alibis for the phenomena, excuses, [G#] economic and social,
but the [C#] brutal fact is simply [A] this.
Where [G#] the racist lie is [E] acceptable, there is corruption.
The race haters must be stopped.
The lynchings must [F#] be stopped.
The murders must be avenged.
I come [E] in that boy's name and in the name of all
who in this [F#] land of ours have no voice of their own.
_ I come with a call for action.
This is a time for it.
_ I call for action against the cause of riot.
It won't surprise me if I'm accused in some quarters of inciting to riot.
I'm very interested in [C#] riots.
I'm very interested in avoiding them.
[F#] So I call for action against the cause of riots.
Law is the best action, the most decisive.
It's in the people's power to see to it that what makes lynchings
and [C#] starts wars is [Em] dealt with.
Not by well-wishers, but by policemen.
[C#m] And I mean good policemen.
Oh, for several generations, maybe there'll be men
who can't be weaned away from the fascist vices of [C#] race hate.
[F#] But we should deny such men responsibility in public affairs
exactly as we deny [C#] responsibility to the wretched victims of the drug habit.
There are laws [F#] against peddling dope.
There can be laws against [G#] peddling race hate.
[F#] But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American both.
But race hate is not an opinion, it's a phobia.
It isn't a viewpoint.
Race hate is [E] a disease.
In a people's world, the [G#m] incurable racist [F#m] has no rights.
[A] He must be deprived [F#m] of influence in a people's government.
He must [C#] be segregated [F#m] as he himself [A] would segregate the [F#m] colored and Semitic peoples.
[C#] _ [F#m] Anything very big is very simple.
If there's a big race [F#] question, there's a big answer [F#m] to it.
And the big answer [F#] is simple.
[F#m] Like the word no.
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[C#m] America can write her name [F#] across this century,
and so she will if we, the people, brown and black and red,
rise now to the great occasion of our brotherhood.
It will take courage.
It calls for the [E] doing of great deeds,
which means the dreaming [C#] of great dreams.
[F#] Giving the world back to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical.
[G#m] No one of us [F#] will live to see a blameless peace.
We strive and pray and die [D#] for what will [G#] be here when we are gone.
Our [E] children's [C#] children are the ancestors [C#m] of [F#] a free people.
To the generations the fight is worth it.
That just about means that my time is up.
_ _ When my time's up, I'll remain as always.
I'll be gently yours. _ _
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