Chords for We Shall Not Be Moved

_ _ _ _ Well, this is a song that's been jumping around the country since before the [Eb] Civil War.
Long time.
It's been used in all kinds of _ [F] struggles, _ big ones and [Bb] little ones.
And it's back on [Eb] the scene again.
[F] _
_ [Bb] _ And it goes like this.
We shall not, [C] we shall not be moved.
We shall [Bb] not, we shall not be moved.
Just [Eb] like a tree planted [Bb] by the [Gm] water.
_ _ [C] We shall [Bb] not be moved.
Oh, you know the song, alright. _ _ _ _
1938 in a [F] textile strike [Bb] at a hosiery mill.
They used to sing it [F] like this.
In Tennessee.
_ [Bb] We're not afraid of gun [F] thugs.
We shall not be moved.
We're not afraid [Bb] of gun thugs.
We shall not be moved.
Just [Eb] like a tree planted [Gm] by the _ water. _
[G] We shall not [Bb] be moved.
When I was a kid [Gm] growing up in Detroit, [F] _ yeah, _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] I used [F] to sing outside the shop gates.
While the auto workers were trying to fight for pay raises right after World War II. _
And we used to sing.
The Union is behind us.
[F] We shall not be moved.
The Union is behind [Bb] us.
We shall not be moved.
[Gm] Just like a tree that's planted by the _ water.
We [Bb] shall not be moved.
_ Sometimes we sang. _ _
Henry Ford's a bastard.
[F] He should be removed.
Henry [Bb] Ford's a bastard.
He should be removed.
Just like [Eb] the garbage planted in [Gm] the alley.
_ He should be [Bb] removed. _
_ _ _ _ _ Early in [Gm] _
the [F] 60s, _ there was a black woman by the name of Rosa Parks who got tired of having to stand up in the crowded back of the bus all the time.
One day she said, that's it.
That's all.
I've had it.
I'm going to sit down.
_ And with that began the famous Montgomery bus boycotts.
[Bb] And they said, we're walking for our freedom.
We [F] shall not be moved.
We're walking for our [Bb] freedom.
We shall not be moved.
Just [Gm] like a tree planted by the water. _ _
We shall not be moved.
_ [Gm]
I [F] got a letter from a friend in Scotland.
_ He says there's a lake there called the Holy Lock.
[Bb] _ And they sing, we don't want Polaris.
[F] We shall not be moved.
We don't want [Bb] Polaris.
We shall not be moved.
Just like [Eb] a tree standing by [Gm] the water.
_ _ [Eb] We [Fm] shall not [Bb] be moved.
_ I got a letter from a [Eb] friend in Italy.
[F]
Went down to the station the day that our dearly beloved President Richard Milhouse [Bb] Nixon was going [Eb] to stop off in [F] Italy to check things out. _ _
Well, he checked him out.
And they checked him out.
He didn't leave the airport.
He just did a little speech.
He got back on the plane and split.
_ _ Because the people over [Bb] there were saying,
Basi nucleari, [F] _
rispondiamo no!
Morli americani, [Bb] _
rispondiamo no!
E [Eb] se lo gianchi un fucile [Bb] si _
[Gm] dara.
That means if the Yankees try to give us a gun, we say no.
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ Carne dal canone.
Meat for the cannons?
We don't want to be that, even for the Americans.
Carne dal canone, _ rispondiamo no!
Morli _ americani, rispondiamo no!
E [Eb] se lo gianchi un fucile [Bb] si _ [Gm] dara.
[Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] Rispondiamo no!
_ _ Well, [Eb] out in the southwest of the United States these days,
[Bb] a lot of [Gm] people who used to be [Eb] ashamed of the fact that they grew up in [Bb] homes where [Gm] only Spanish was spoken,
suddenly getting [F] together, _ not only fighting to organize themselves and have a union and get some rights,
[Bb]
but also [Eb] fighting for the [F] _ _ _
[Bb] use and the [Eb] appreciation of the Spanish language [Bb] and the Spanish culture.
[Gm] _ [F] So they sing the song like this.
They say, [Bb] Fuertes, [Eb] fuertes.
_ [F] Fuertes somos ya.
Strong, strong are we.
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ The [F] rest of it means the same thing.
_ [Bb] _ Fuertes, fuertes, [F] fuertes somos ya.
_ Fuertes, [Bb] fuertes, fuertes somos ya.
Y como un arbol viva se fue al [Gm] río.
_ _ _ [F] Fuertes [Bb] somos ya.
Sometimes they say, Viva Pancho Villa.
[F] Fuertes somos ya.
Viva Pancho Villa.
[Bb] _ Fuertes somos ya.
Como [Eb] un arbol viva [Bb] se fue al [Gm] río.
_ _ _ [G] Fuertes [Bb] somos ya. _
_ Viva Che [F] Guevarra.
Fuertes somos ya.
[C] Viva Che [Bb] Guevarra.
Fuertes somos ya.
[Eb] Como un arbol viva [Bb] se fue al [Gm] río.
Yo _ [G] fuerte [Bb] somos ya
And as you travel around the country [Eb] these days, you hear new [F] verses everywhere.
_ _ The kind of thing you hear is [Bb] like,
Free Huey Newton, we [F] shall not be moved.
Free Huey Newton, we shall not be moved.
Just like [Gm] a tree planted by the water,
We [Bb] shall not be moved. _
We are the conspiracy and [F] we shall not be moved.
We are the conspiracy and we shall not be moved.
Just like [Bb] a tree planted by the [Gm] water, _
[G] We [Bb] shall not be moved. _
And your jail walls cannot hold us, we [F] shall not be moved.
[F] Jail walls cannot [Bb] hold us, we shall not be moved.
Just like [Eb] a tree planted [Gm] by the water,
We shall not be moved.
You know why?
Because we are the people.
[F] We shall not be moved.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
Just like a tree planted by the _ water,
_ [Gm] We shall [Bb] not be moved.
You know what's happening?
We're coming on to victory.
[G] We shall not be moved.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
Just like [Eb] a tree planted [Bb] by the [Gm]
water,
We shall not _ _
_ [Eb] be [Bb] moved. _ _ _ _
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