Key: G
Introduction:
G C
I asked a student of higher schooling
G D
He said he didn?t care
G C
When I asked about the sixties
G D
They simply said long hair
G C
Saw a child getting programmed
G D
Getting programmed when she wakes
G C
And I heard a raving elder
G D
Cursing 20 years too late
Em Am C
Oh how the bastards screwed me
D G C D
Son, life?s too short to wait
Am
And then the students
Bm C
Of higher schooling
D G C D
Hid more pills inside his plate
G C D
So I?d like to send gratitude
And thanks
G C
To those who had the courage
D
To defy the mighty ranks
C
Send it to the students
G
Who waved the banners
D
Who held flowers up to the tanks
C
And to the ones who are
G
Still fighting
D
Yes all my gratitude
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And all my thanks
G C
So as you sit baked and hammered
G D
So grateful to be dead
G C
Saying freedom?s here to chill out
G D
So sit and rest your head
G
Think of those who fought
C
For your right
G D
The path you walk, they paved
G C
And those who fought for their right
G D
To carry until today
G C
When it was they who fed the hungry,
G D
Stormed the pentagon for peace
G C
While the army rounded strangers up
G D
made them instant police
G C
They who made a union,
G
dodged the draft,
D
and filled the jails
G C
And spread a message of unity
G D
Across the nation?s rails
Em
And said we?re destroying
Am C
The house that Man have built
D G C D
Kicking the doors and pulling nails
Am Bm C
And you have the nerve to tell me
D G C D
That everyone has failed
G
No, you should send
C D
Your gratitude and thanks
G C
To those who had the courage
D
To defy the mighty ranks
C
Send it to the students
G
Who waved the banners
D
Who held flowers up to the tanks
C
And to the ones who are
G
Still fighting
D
Yes all my gratitude
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And all my thanks
C
I'd like to send out a
D
Head, help, heart, and hand
G C
To those who had the courage
D
To reach and rise and stand
C
Send it to the lovers
G
And the fighters
D
To those who stood up and still stand
C
Those who unchained their wrist
G
And clenched their fist
D
Both here and in faraway lands