Chords for Wade In the Water/Negro Spiritual - Yolanda Rhodes

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_ [D] _ [Em] _ _ [E] 300 years [Em] ago, _ _ my African ancestors came on a [D] ship, [Em] _ _ _ traveled across the ocean _ [Bm] for [F#] days [E] and days and nights and nights
in the bowels of [Em] a sweaty ship.
_ _ When they arrived, they were [Bm] sold away.
[Em] _ _ Families [C] were [D] separated.
[Em] _ _ Parents never saw their [E] children.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [D] [Em] And the people, my [D] [Em] people, my people, my people _ [D] wanted to [Em] be free. _ _ _ _
Yes, my people wanted to [E] shut those top of them.
_ [Em] They wanted to go back to Africa, _ where their [B] feet could touch [Em] the soil of [Bm] their [Em] mother earth.
[G] _ _ [B] They wanted to wade in the water, [E] wade in [Em] the water, _ _ _ wade _ in the water, _ _ _ _ _ _ wade in the _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] water.
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_ _ _ WADE IN THE WATER, WADE IN THE WATER, GOD'S GONNA TOPPLE THE WASH, YOU SEE THAT? _ _
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