Chords for Nina Simone: To Be Free
Tempo:
96.5 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
F
Cm
G
Abm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Everybody is half [Bb] dead.
Everybody avoids everybody.
All over the place, in most situations, most all the time.
I know I'm one of those everybody's.
[Abm] And to me it [Bb] is terrible.
And so all I'm [F] trying to do all the time is just to open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else.
That is all.
[Cm] That's it.
I've always [G] thought that I was shaking people up.
[Cm] But now I want to go at it more.
And I want to go at it more deliberately.
[N] And I want to go at it coldly.
I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I perform, I just want them to be at peace.
I want to go in [Fm] that den of those elegant [Bb] people with their [G] old ideas, smugness, [N] and just drive them insane.
When I'm calm and cool and really got the antenna working, you know when to push and you know when to not.
Nobody can tell you though, you have to [Bb] feel it.
In [Bbm] any situation between human beings.
[Bb] It's what makes a groove.
Well, what's free to me?
[N] Same thing is to you.
You tell me.
No, you tell me.
Is that a talkie for such a long time?
It's just a feeling.
It's just a feeling.
It's like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love?
How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love?
You cannot do it [Bb] to say they're like.
You can describe things, but you can't tell them.
But you know it when it happens.
[F] That's what I mean by free.
I've had a couple of [Bb] times on stage when I really felt free.
And [N] that's something else.
That's really something else.
Like all like like I'll tell you what freedom is to me.
No fear.
I mean really no fear.
If I if I could have that half of my life, no fear.
Lots of children have no fear.
That's the closest way.
That's the only way I can describe it.
That's not all of it, but it is something to really, really feel.
[E]
[Bb]
Have you have you like I've noticed [Ab] a new way of seeing a
Everybody avoids everybody.
All over the place, in most situations, most all the time.
I know I'm one of those everybody's.
[Abm] And to me it [Bb] is terrible.
And so all I'm [F] trying to do all the time is just to open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else.
That is all.
[Cm] That's it.
I've always [G] thought that I was shaking people up.
[Cm] But now I want to go at it more.
And I want to go at it more deliberately.
[N] And I want to go at it coldly.
I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I perform, I just want them to be at peace.
I want to go in [Fm] that den of those elegant [Bb] people with their [G] old ideas, smugness, [N] and just drive them insane.
When I'm calm and cool and really got the antenna working, you know when to push and you know when to not.
Nobody can tell you though, you have to [Bb] feel it.
In [Bbm] any situation between human beings.
[Bb] It's what makes a groove.
Well, what's free to me?
[N] Same thing is to you.
You tell me.
No, you tell me.
Is that a talkie for such a long time?
It's just a feeling.
It's just a feeling.
It's like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love?
How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love?
You cannot do it [Bb] to say they're like.
You can describe things, but you can't tell them.
But you know it when it happens.
[F] That's what I mean by free.
I've had a couple of [Bb] times on stage when I really felt free.
And [N] that's something else.
That's really something else.
Like all like like I'll tell you what freedom is to me.
No fear.
I mean really no fear.
If I if I could have that half of my life, no fear.
Lots of children have no fear.
That's the closest way.
That's the only way I can describe it.
That's not all of it, but it is something to really, really feel.
[E]
[Bb]
Have you have you like I've noticed [Ab] a new way of seeing a
Key:
Bb
F
Cm
G
Abm
Bb
F
Cm
_ Everybody is half [Bb] dead. _
Everybody avoids everybody.
_ All over the place, in most situations, most all the time.
I know I'm one of those everybody's.
[Abm] And to me it [Bb] is terrible.
And so all I'm [F] trying to do all the time is just to open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else.
That is all.
[Cm] That's it.
I've always [G] thought that I was shaking people up.
[Cm] But now I want to go at it more.
And I want to go at it more deliberately.
[N] And I want to go at it coldly.
I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I perform, I just want them to be at peace.
I want to go in [Fm] that den of those elegant [Bb] people with their [G] old ideas, smugness, [N] and just drive them insane.
When I'm calm and cool and really got the antenna working, you know when to push and you know when to not.
Nobody can tell you though, you have to [Bb] feel it.
_ In [Bbm] any situation between human beings.
[Bb] It's what makes a groove.
Well, what's free to me?
[N] _ Same thing is to you.
You tell me.
No, you tell me. _ _ _ _
Is that a talkie for such a long time?
It's just a feeling.
_ It's just a feeling.
It's like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love?
How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love?
You cannot do it [Bb] to say they're like.
You can describe things, but you can't tell them.
But you know it when it happens.
[F] That's what I mean by free.
I've had a couple of [Bb] times on stage when I really felt free.
And [N] that's something else.
That's really something else.
Like all like like I'll tell you what freedom is to me.
No fear.
_ _ I mean really no fear.
_ If I if I could have that _ half of my life, no fear.
_ Lots of children have no fear.
_ That's the closest way.
That's the only way I can describe it.
That's not all of it, but it is something to really, _ really feel.
[E] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Have you have you like I've noticed [Ab] a new way of seeing a
Everybody avoids everybody.
_ All over the place, in most situations, most all the time.
I know I'm one of those everybody's.
[Abm] And to me it [Bb] is terrible.
And so all I'm [F] trying to do all the time is just to open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else.
That is all.
[Cm] That's it.
I've always [G] thought that I was shaking people up.
[Cm] But now I want to go at it more.
And I want to go at it more deliberately.
[N] And I want to go at it coldly.
I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I perform, I just want them to be at peace.
I want to go in [Fm] that den of those elegant [Bb] people with their [G] old ideas, smugness, [N] and just drive them insane.
When I'm calm and cool and really got the antenna working, you know when to push and you know when to not.
Nobody can tell you though, you have to [Bb] feel it.
_ In [Bbm] any situation between human beings.
[Bb] It's what makes a groove.
Well, what's free to me?
[N] _ Same thing is to you.
You tell me.
No, you tell me. _ _ _ _
Is that a talkie for such a long time?
It's just a feeling.
_ It's just a feeling.
It's like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love?
How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love?
You cannot do it [Bb] to say they're like.
You can describe things, but you can't tell them.
But you know it when it happens.
[F] That's what I mean by free.
I've had a couple of [Bb] times on stage when I really felt free.
And [N] that's something else.
That's really something else.
Like all like like I'll tell you what freedom is to me.
No fear.
_ _ I mean really no fear.
_ If I if I could have that _ half of my life, no fear.
_ Lots of children have no fear.
_ That's the closest way.
That's the only way I can describe it.
That's not all of it, but it is something to really, _ really feel.
[E] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Have you have you like I've noticed [Ab] a new way of seeing a