I Had No Right

INTRO: G


God of the poor man, this is how the
 day began
D                            
Eight co-defendants, I, Daniel 
  G          Am
Berrigan
        F               C      
Oh, and only a layman’s batch of 
          Am
Napalm
              F
We pulled the draft files out
   Dm                 G
We burned them in the parking lot
F                         C      
Better the files than the bodies 
             Em
of children


CHORUS:
         C                  Am    
I had no right, but for the love 
      D    G
of you___
         C                  Am    
I had no right, but for the love 
      D
of you___


G
Many roads led here, walked with the
 suffering
D                                
Tom in Guatemala, Phillip in New 
G   Am
Orleans
           F              C    
Oh, it’s a long road from law to 
            Am
justice
          F
I went to Vietnam
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  Dm                   G
I went for peace, they dropped their
 bombs
F                         C      
Right where my government knew I 
            Em
would be


CHORUS:
         C                  Am    
I had no right, but for the love 
      D    G
of you___
         C                  Am    
I had no right, but for the love 
      D       Am
of you___


BRIDGE:
           F             Am
And all my country saw
                 F
Were priests who broke the law


G
First it was a question, then it was
 a mission
D                             
How to be American, how to be a 
  G      Am
Christian
           F                     
Oh, if the law is their cross and 
     C                Em
the cross is burning


CHORUS:
            C               Am    
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love 
      D    G
of you___
            C               Am    
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love 
      D
of you___


G
God of the just, I’ll never win a 
peace prize
D                               G
Falling like Jesus, now let the 
    Am
jury rise
         F                C       
Oh, it’s all of us versus all that
        Am
 paper
     F                      Dm    
They took the only way they know, 
          G
who is on trial today
  F                  C            
Deliver us unto each other, I pray
  Em



CHORUS:
         C                  Am    
I had no right, but for the love 
      D    G
of you___
          C                Am     
And every trial I stood, I stood 
       D
for you___


G
Eyes on the trial
8 a.m. arrival
Hands on the bible