People Got To Be Free

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All the world over, so easy to see
N.C.
People everywhere just wanna be free
N.C.
Listen, people listen, that's the 
way it should be
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  Bm  Bm  A  G      Bm  Bm  A  G
Peace in the valley, people got to 
be free

[verse 1]
D          A          Bm        
You should see what a lovely, 
                     F#m
lovely world this could be
G        D              Em       A
Everyone learns to live together
        D        F#7          Bm 
Well it seems to me such an itty 
                   F#m  F#m7b5
bitty thing should be
G                 D              
Why can't you and me learn to 
      Em       A
love one another


G             D/F#     A/E     D
All the world over, so easy to see
G            D/F#      A/E      D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G            D/F#           A/E 
I can't understand, it s so 
      D
simple to me
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G           D/F#       A/E      
People everywhere just gotta be 
Bm  Bm  A  G      Bm  Bm  A  G
free

[verse 2]
D            A          Bm      
If there's a man who is down and
                 F#m
 needs a helping hand
       G                    D     
All it takes is you to understand 
                Em       A
and to pull him through
D        F#7          Bm   
Seems to me we got to solve it 
             F#m  F#m7b5
individually
G                 D              
And I'll do unto you what you do 
        Em       A
to unto me


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There'll be shouting from the 
D/F#          A/E    D
mountains on out to sea
G            D/F#            A/E
No two ways about it, people 
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have to be free
G         D/F#        A/E        
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will 
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be
       G            D/F#       
It's a natural situation for a 
A/E       Bm  Bm  A  G      Bm
man to be free
  Bm  A  G


[interlude]
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G          D            A        
Oh, what a feeling just came over 
 D
me.
G               D                
Love can move a mountain, make a 
A         D
blind man see
G           D       A          D
Everybody's singing now let's go see
G            D                 A
Deep in the valley, now we ought
         Bm  Bm  A  G
 to to be free

G             D        A       D
All the world over, so easy to see
G           D          A        D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G                 D               
Listen, people listen, that's the 
A             D
way it should be
G            D              A   
Deep in the valley, people got 
      Bm  Bm  A  G
to be free

G             D        A       
All the world over, so easy to see 
D
(See that train over there?)
G           D          A        
People everywhere just wanna be free
D
 (That's the train to freedom)
G                 D               
I can't understand, it s so simple
A             D
 to me (It’s about to arrive any 
minute)
G            D              A   
Peace in the valley, people got 
      Bm  Bm  A  G
to be free (It's been long, long 
overdue)

(Train is coming right on through)
G             D        A       D
All the world over, so easy to see
G            D          A       D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G              D                  
Listen, please listen, that's the 
A             D
way it should be
G            D              A   
Peace in the valley, people got 
      Bm  Bm  A  G
to be free