B              A                       E
Lately mother earth has been feeling unsatisfied, 
 B                           A                       E       
I'd say it's plain from the rain the sweet lady's started to cry, 
 B                  A                        E
Fires crackle and blaze in the rays of her burning heart, 
              A
and I don't think it's smart to, 
 B                    A                      E    
Lay and wait for the day that she dies in our arms. 

[Chorus]
         E
We gotta do something, 
          B
We gotta do something, 
   A
Before mother earth gets anymore hurt, 
    E
We gotta do something! 

[Verse]
B                               A                      E
From what I've read there's a lotta bad stuff in the world today, 
B                             A                               E
It's been said it's getting rough to find a place where the children play, 
    B                      A                  B
So, Mr Prime Minister and Mr President you better see that it's 
     A            B                    A
not only me, no, our mob is rising in size, 
                            E
and they've been dying to scream out to you! 

[Chorus]
          E
You gotta do something, 
          B
We gotta do something, 
     A
Sometimes I sit in my room and I don't know what to do,
           E
but we've gotta do something! 

             E
It's time to do something, 
               B
Someone should do something, 
     A
We gotta do something, 
                       E
and that someone is you, and you and you and you! 


[Bridge]
C#m           B                  E
  I pray it ain't all lost and gone, 
C#m            B                       E
  I pray we might learn right from wrong, 
C#m                   B             E   B        A       
  and I pray this broken day, will not last too long, 
                            E                 C#m
I pray that you believe my song ... Darlin'! 

[Bridge 2]
E
You know I'm sorry if this is hard for you to take, 

But a lot of it just needs saying, 
C#m
and I don't see anyone else out there, 
       B
giving out this message, 
                            E
and if I don't do this, Who's gonna do it? 
                             B
And maybe, if someone hears these words, 
                             A
maybe the whole world gets round and listens, 
                              E
to what I'm sayin', and maybe we have a chance. 

Because I don't wanna see another child crying, 
                           B
I don't wanna see another dog dying in the streets, 
         A                                                  E
I can't see another homeless man, because it doesn't seem right to me, 

He's got a home, and he's not got a home, 

What's the point in that? 
                  B
Why can't we all just get together, in one big home, 
A
and if I was in Government, 
                      E
Then I'd Government things much more differentlier, 

because it ain't the best way to government things, 
                     B
So there's poor people everywhere, 

You know I would just be sittin' alone, 
A
Thinkin' "How can I do something?", 
        E
'Cos I ain't gonna be in chains no-more, 

You lot might have been conned, but I ain't been conned, 
            B                                        A
'Cos I'm a free man, I'm free, and I'm gonna let my soul soar, 
                                      E
and the way I do that is through my music,