Tom: D
Introdução:
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I went to see the preacher to teach me how to pray
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He looked at me and smiled then that preacher turned away
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He said "Son, if you want to tell him something
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You ain't gotta fold your hands
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Say it with your heart your soul and believe it,
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and I'll say amen "
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Bang a drum for the sinners, bang a drum for the
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sins
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Bang a drum for the losers and those who win
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Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as soft as you need
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Bang a drum for yourself son and a drum for me
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Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen
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I called upon my brother just the other day,
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He said: "Jon, I'm gonna die if I don't start to live again
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I work each day and night like clockwork just
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trying to make ends meet
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I could kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet"
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I'd bang a drum for the dying, bang a drum for the
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truth
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Bang a drum for the innocence lost in our youth
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Bang a drum bang it loudly or as soft as you need
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Bang a drum for you brother and a drum for me
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I don't know where all the rivers run
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I don't know how far, I don't know how come
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But I'm gonna die believin' each step that I take
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Ain't worth the ground that I walk on
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If we don't walk it our own way
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No I don't claim to be a wise man a poet or a saint
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I'm just another man who's searching for a better way
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But my heart beats loud as thunder for the things
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that I believe
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Sometimes I wanna run for cover, sometimes I want to scream
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Bang a drum for tomorrow, bang a drum for the past
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Bang a drum for the heros that won't come back
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Bang a drum for the promise, bang a drum for the
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lies
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Bang a drum for the lovers and the tears they've cried
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Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as soft as you need
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But as long as my heart keeps on bangin'
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I got a reason to believe
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Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen
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Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen