We Carry On

   C                             
He hasn't seen a drop of rain for 
            C9
months it seems
F                            
Rollin' river is nothing but a 
             F9
trickling stream
     C                          
The crops are dying in the harsh 
     C9
sunlight
F                          F9
The dust on his tongue is dry
    Am                             
The fatted calf is down to skin and
  F
 bones
         C  C9  C
We carry on

  C                             
Alone in the city and she's only 
       C9
seventeen
         F                         
The boy left her black and blue in 
           F9
the street so mean
      C                          
Just twelve weeks along and she's 
               C9
got a life inside
F                               F9
Says she's never ever felt so alone
Am                                
She walks in the shelter, they say
   F
 "welcome home"

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             C
And we carry on
Dm        C/E    F
When our lives come undone
         C
We carry on
 Dm               C/E         F
Cause there's promise in the morning
 sun
         Am
We carry on
                       F           
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
C/E

        Bb             F
We were born to overcome
         C
We carry on

           F
Beyond the picket fences and the oil
 wells
    C
The happy endings and the fairy 
tales
G                                 
Is the reality of shattered lives 
     Dm
and broken dreams
         C  C9  C        F  F9  F 
(x2)  Bb F
We carry on       Carry on

          C                        
It's the family that grieves for a 
       C9
lost loved one
          F                        
It's the soldier who won't leave 
             F9
til the job is done
          C                        
It's the addict trying to turn his 
       C9
life around
      F
It's picking yourself off the ground
 when you've been knocked down

C  C9  C  F  F9  F

     C                           
He stands in the field, cooled by 
               C9
the winds of change
      F                            
She smiles as her baby moves and it
         F9
 starts to rain