INTRO: G
God of the poor man, this is how the day began
DGAm
Eight co-defendants, I, Daniel Berrigan
FCAm
Oh, and only a layman’s batch of Napalm
F
We pulled the draft files out
DmG
We burned them in the parking lot
FCEm
Better the files than the bodies of children
CHORUS:
CAmDG
I had no right, but for the love of you___
CAmD
I had no right, but for the love of you___
G
Many roads led here, walked with the suffering
DGAm
Tom in Guatemala, Phillip in New Orleans
FCAm
Oh, it’s a long road from law to justice
F
I went to Vietnam
DmG
I went for peace, they dropped their bombs
FCEm
Right where my government knew I would be
CHORUS:
CAmDG
I had no right, but for the love of you___
CAmDAm
I had no right, but for the love of you___
BRIDGE:
FAm
And all my country saw
F
Were priests who broke the law
G
First it was a question, then it was a mission
DGAm
How to be American, how to be a Christian
FCEm
Oh, if the law is their cross and the cross is burning
CHORUS:
CAmDG
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love of you___
CAmD
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love of you___
G
God of the just, I’ll never win a peace prize
DGAm
Falling like Jesus, now let the jury rise
FCAm
Oh, it’s all of us versus all that paper
FDmG
They took the only way they know, who is on trial today
FCEm
Deliver us unto each other, I pray
CHORUS:
CAmDG
I had no right, but for the love of you___
CAmD
And every trial I stood, I stood for you___
G
Eyes on the trial
8 a.m. arrival
Hands on the bible