Bang a Drum

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I went to see the preacher to 
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teach me how to pray
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He looked at me and smiled then 
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that preacher turned away
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He said "Son, if you want to tell 
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him something
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You ain't gotta fold your hands
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Say it with your heart your soul 
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and believe it,
         A       D
and I'll say amen "

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Bang a drum for the sinners, bang a
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 drum for the
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sins
       G            D          A
Bang a drum for the losers and those
 who win
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Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as 
A           D
soft as you need
       G                 D         
Bang a drum for yourself son and a 
A           D
drum for me
G     D     A     D
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh oh let me hear you
 say:
G          D          A    D
Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen

  D              G                
I called upon my brother just the 
A     D
other day,
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He said: "Jon, I'm gonna die if I 
      A
don't start to live again
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I work each day and night like 
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clockwork just
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trying to make ends meet
        G                     D   
I could kick this bad world's ass 
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if I could just get on my feet"

           D            G         
I'd bang a drum for the dying, 
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bang a drum for the
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truth
       G            D         A
Bang a drum for the innocence lost 
in our youth
       D            G            
Bang a drum bang it loudly or as 
A           D
soft as you need
       G            D             
Bang a drum for you brother and a 
A           D
drum for me

G       D                  A     
I don't know where all the rivers 
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run
        G        D            A
I don't know how far, I don't know 
how come
        Bm        G         D    
But I'm gonna die believin' each 
            A
step that I take
                Bm            G
Ain't worth the ground that I walk 
on
                 A          Bm
If we don't walk it our own way

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No I don't claim to be a wise man 
  A         D
a poet or a saint
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I'm just  another man who's 
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searching for a better way
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But my heart beats loud as thunder
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 for the things
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that I believe
            G             D    
Sometimes I wanna run for cover, 
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sometimes I want to scream

       D            G            
Bang a drum for tomorrow, bang a 
A            D
drum for the past
       G            D          A
Bang a drum for the heros that won't
 come back
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Bang a drum for the promise, bang 
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a drum for the
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lies
       G            D              
Bang a drum for the lovers and the 
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tears they've cried
       D             G            
Bang a drum, bang it loudly or as 
A           D
soft as you need
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But as long as my heart keeps on 
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bangin'
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I got a reason to believe

G    D    A       D
Yeah yeah oh yeah oh let me hear you
 say:
G          D          A    D
Yeah, yeah Hallelujah amen
G    D    A       D
Yeah yeah oh yeah oh let me hear you
 say:
G           D          A     D
Yeah, yeah  Hallelujah amen