Show Them The Way

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      Please God, show 'em the way
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Please God, on this day
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  Spirits all given the strength
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Peace can come if you really want
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 it


[Verse 1]
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I had a fragile dream in a gray 
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house in the Hamptons
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I'd been there before, singing 
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songs and doing benefits
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Was in a room alone putting on my 
makeup
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Like so many things that come to 
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me, the dress came across the 
Persian carpet

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As I fell into the dress, a 
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thought came to me
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Into my heart, I have a dream
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  And a door opened
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I turned to face the music

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  I was ready for the Kennedys
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I don't know if it was 1960   or 
1963
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  Everything was timeless, even me
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I wasn't old, I wasn't young, I 
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was just part of their dream

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A shadow walked with me down the 
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hall, it was Martin Luther King
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All in shadow, all before me, 
overwhelmed by
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Destiny, someone said, "Sing us a 
song
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There's a piano"  and handed me a 
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drink
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The room was full of hope,  a song
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 would set them free


[Chorus]
C                 D               
      Please God, show 'em the way
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C           D           Em
Please God, on this day
G C           D                  Em
  Spirits all given the strength
C                     D          
Peace can come if you really want
    C
 it


[Verse 2]
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I sat at the piano, stared out of 
the shadows
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I sang the words, "I have a dream"
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He wasn't my old friend John, I 
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didn't know him then
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But he smiled at me,   and I sang 
these words

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Whatever it takes
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Whatever it takes to be free
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   No, I didn't know these men
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   But they knew me


[Verse 3]
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It was all symbolic, nothing was as 
it seemed
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  They all left us in a single 
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shot but they didn't take the dream
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They were there in that house, 
discussing the future
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And drinking champagne, I was just a
 piano player

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The voice, part of their dream
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I was thirty-five and maybe I was 
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fifteen
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It was just another night in the 
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presence of Martin Luther King
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I was just a dreamer; I was ready
         D       Em
 for the Kennedys


[Chorus]
Em
And I said
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      Please God, show 'em the way
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C           D           Em
Please God, on this day
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Light the fire, start it over

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Tell the world about the dream
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Start it up and make it real

[Solo]
| D Am | Am G |

C          Em    D    Am          G
Please God       show him the way
C          Em    D        Am      G
Please God       show her the way
C          Em    D         Am     G
Please God       show them the way
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Please God


[Verse 4]
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Back in the room where it all began
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My heart began to heal, I believe 
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it
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I remember the beauty of the 
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Hamptons
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Shadows playing in the sun

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  A voice said, "The dream is not 
over, no
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The dream has just begun"
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I spun around to see another shadow
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Slipping through the door

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And my eyes opened wide, "What is 
this all for?"
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And the shadow said, "Don't forget
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 it, don't forget
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What we were fighting for, don't 
forget it"


[Chorus]
Em
And I said
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Please God, show 'em the way
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(It's just another night)
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Please God, on this day
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(Martin Luther King)

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Spirits all given the strength   
(Sing us a song)
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Peace can come if you fight for it 
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(Don't forget it)
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Think we're just in time-ime to say


[Chorus]
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(Ooh, and said, oh said)
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Please God, show 'em the way  (All 
in shadow)
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Please God, on this day   (All 
before me)
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Spirits all given the strength

                      D           Em
Peace can come if you fight for it
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Think we're just in time to say 
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this
    D        Em   C  D
Set them free
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Room was full of hope


[Chorus]
C           D               Em
Please God, show 'em the way   (I 
believe it)
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Please God, on this day   (Don't 
forget it)
C           D                 Em
Spirits all given the strength
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Don't forget what    we were 
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fighting for
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Think we're just in time-ime to say
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[Otro]
C             D  Em
Peace can come      if you fight for
 it
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Peace can come      if you try 
harder
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Peace can come,  ooh, if you really 
want it
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That dream

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Don't forget it, please God
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Show them    the way