Chords for Ani DiFranco - Amendment (Live 2010)

[G] you know, _ so _
This is a song that that has a lot of those kind of words in there that are hard to sing _
[A] _ Because _ [D] _ _
_ [Em] _ I just want to see how far this this goes here so
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had an amendment _ to [Bb] give [Eb] civil rights to
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To [Eb] once and [C] for all just really [Bb] lay it down [C] from the [Bb] point of view [C] of
Women [Bb] I _ [D] _
[G] _ know what you're thinking
[C] _
That's just redundant
[G] _
_ Chicks got it good now _
[C] They can almost be president
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But it's worker against worker
[C] _ Time and time again [Dm] because the rich [G] use certain issues as a tool
And _ [Dm] when I say we need [D] the era it ain't cuz [G] I'm a fool _ _ _ _
[B] It's cuz [A] without it.
Nobody [G] can get away with [A] anything _ cool
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[E] And [C] you [Eb] don't have to go [Em] far like [C] [Bbm] just over to [C] Canada
_ To [Bb] feel a [C] heightened sense [Bbm] of live and [C] let live
[E] _ [C] [Bbm] What is it about [Em] _
Americans [C] [Bb] like so many [E] pit _ [C] bulls
[Bb] trained to [C] attack and
[Bbm] to never [C] give
[E] We [Gm] gotta put down [Cm] abortion
[E] [C] Put [Bb] it down in the [C] books for [E] good [Cm] as [Bbm] central to [C] the civil rights of [Bb] women _ [C] make _ _ [Bb] diversity
[C] Legal [E] [C] make [Bb] it finally [Em] understood
through [Bbm] the civil [C] rights of
[Bb] women _ _ [G] _
and if you don't like abortion _
[C] _ Don't have an abortion _
[G] _ And teach your children
_ [Em] How they can avoid [G] them?
But don't treat all women
_ [C] _ Like they are your children
_ [F] [D] Compassion [G] has many faces many names
_ And _ [D] if men can kill and be [Am] decorated [G] instead of blame _ _
_ Then a woman called upon the mother can [A] choose to refrain _ [E] and _ [C] [Bb] contrary to
[E] _ eons [C] of [Bb] old-time [C] religion
[E] _ [C] Your [Bbm]
body's your [C] only [E] _ _ [C] [Bb] true [C] dominion
_ Nature [Bb] is not here [C] to [E] serve you [Cm] or at [Bb] any cost [E] to preserve you.
[C] That's [Bb] just some [Am] preacher [E] _ man's
[Bb] old-time opinion
[G] _ _ Life is sacred
_ [C] life _ is also _ [G] profane a woman's life
_ [Em] It must be hers to [G] name
Let an amendment
_ [Em] Put this brutal game to [Dm] rest trust that women will [G] still take you to their breast
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Trust that [C] women will [G] always do their best
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Trust [G] our differences make [A] us stronger
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_ [C] [Bbm] this amendment [C] [E] shall be [C] family [Bb] structures [Am] shall be [E] free [C] will have [Bb] the right [Em] to civil _ [Bb] Union
_ [Em] It _ [Bb] takes unions of [C] [Em] all kinds
[Bb] Unions of [G] hearts and [E] minds [C] [Bb] to give [C] society _ communion
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ [E] _
_ [Bb] Let's do more than [E] tolerate
[C] Let [Bb] gay and [Em] straight resonate _ [Bb] and emanate
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[E] [Cm] With [Bb] _ _ [Em] _ _
equal [Bb] _ _ [Em] rights and _ [Bb] equal [E] protection _ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] [C] Intolerance finally [E] _ [C] ruined
[Bb] _ And [G] _ _ then there's the kids rights
[C] _ They'll naturally be on [G] board
_ the funnel through which
[C] _ _ Women's lives are poor
[G] _ Our family is so big
_ [C] _ We're all so very [G] small
_ Let a web of relationship
[Em] _ Be laid [C] over it all [Dm] over the strata of power [Bm] piled up to the sky
[G] _ over the illusion of [Dm] autonomy [G] on which it relies
_ _ _ [B] Over any [G] absolute that nature does [A] not supply
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And the [A] birthing woman [G] shall regain her place _ _ _ in a circle [Gb] of [Ab] women in a sacred [Em]
space
_ _ _ Turn [E] off the [C] machines put away [G] the knives
_ _ _ This amendment [Gb] shall [C] deliver from bondage
_ [Em] midwives _ _ _ _ _
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