Song For Congress

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[Verse 1]
F                      C
I’m a New Yorker with long American 
roots
G                               
I see a land that’s tilting and I 
   F                 Am
don’t know what to do
Dm                            F
Something is different, this danger 
feels new
                C  G
Who do we look to?
        Dm                    F
In the capitol building, the chosen 
few
                    G
I wrote a song for you

I wrote a song for you


[Chorus]
F                    C
As you walk through Statuary Hall
G                      F
Do you hear the marble breathing?
F                    C
All the statues are trying to talk
G                            
What do you think that they’re 
   F
saying?


[Verse 2]
Dm           F          
The muse of history writes 
    C           G
everything down
Dm                F           C 
She writes just what she sees in
             G
 Washington town


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[Chorus]
F                    C
As you walk through Statuary Hall
G                         F
Did you catch the marble moving?
F                     C
All these statues are trying to walk
G                             
Where do you think that they’re 
   F
going?


[Verse 3]
Dm          F               C   
We’re on a bigger team than left
     G
 or right
Dm                    F           
We have a flickering history as a 
 C       G
guiding light
Dm                    F          
Don't want to see the American 
     C          G    F
dream die in the night


[Bridge]
A#                   F
Around the world in bars and parks
C       G
People commiserate
A#                 F
Complex feelings around this flag of
 ours
C                         G
But don't want to see it fade
A#          F         C        
They still want their American 
G
friend


[Chorus]
F                    C
As you walk through Statuary Hall
G                     F
Do you see the marble moving?
F                      C
All these statues are starting to 
walk
G                             
Where do you think that they’re 
   F
going?


[Other]
   F             C             G   F
To find the man who would be king
         F                   C    
Doesn’t seem to care about 
   G  F
anything
F                  C
Now's the time to do something
        G               F
Do we dare look away, turn our heads

As we slide into the dark?
F                  C
Now’s the time to do something
            G
When we’re old, looking back
         F
We will cry when we see what we have
 done
F                  C
Now’s the time to say something
     G                       F
Families split up, the world heating
 up
Am                 Em
Now’s the time to say something
        F            C       G
We are letting hate lead us away