Chords for Greg Greenway - Standing on the Side of Love

[D#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ I grew up a little [B] bit. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] And, um, _ I graduated [B] from college and I _ just absolutely fell in love with it.
And that's what I do.
[N] _
_ And, um, Crips and I toured the Bronx and the Backstown.
And, um, there have [A] been many things. _ _ _ _
[D#] It's very difficult to explain myself to _ you guys.
It's very, very difficult.
_ [N] _
_ _ _ _ And it's much more complicated and amazing and _ [D#] sad and everything, you know, all together.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's so hard to put these things together. _ _
I was asked to [B] come back and play some concerts in Virginia.
And there were one of 12 states who were doing, passing what they call the Marriage Protection Act. _ _ _ _ _ _
It was such a great job.
[N] _ _ Laughter
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_ _ [B] In my entire life, _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
there was supposed to be somebody on the other side, [D#] but I wasn't. _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ [D#] And, through the beauty of [A] music, [D#] it was like a lifeline to allow me to get out into the world. _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _
_ [D#] _ _ All love. _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Laughter
And [G#m] [N] I don't know if on the way to the show here you were my excessive amounts of love laying on me.
Laughter
_ Um, so, I don't know.
I just, I have so many acquaintances who knew they were gay from birth. _ _ _ _
And it seems like [A] a personal freedom.
_ _ [G#m] _ _
[D#] So, I wrote this _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ in [Gm] one of our concert sets.
When it all comes down, I want to be standing on the side [N] of love.
So, you know, it just makes so much sense to me.
You know, you've got to have lines, lineages between people.
Pick me on the side of love.
So I waited around for a year, and then I [Gm] found this little, this little Scott Joplin musical, Jones and Dick. _
[G] Laughter
_ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _ God, [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ that's it. _
That's Scott Joplin meets Omar Jones meets standing on the side of love.
I _ [E] used _ [C#] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] [G] to [C] stand [G] _ by [B] the side of [Em] a road, on [C] a sky-list [G] _ little [D] path. _
[G] I [D] [G] turned [C] around.
[G] _
[B] There were two [Em] ways to go, I'm not [C#] alone.
[G] _ [C#] To lay [D] down at last.
[G] _
I [C] saw sisters [G] and brothers, [Am] _ [C] brothers and [G] sons.
[B] I saw the [Em] lines [G] that divided [C#m] them [G] up.
_ [Gm] When they call [E] my name, [C#] I'll be standing [F#] on the side [G] of love. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Everybody [C] [G] knows, it's [B] reasonable, face [Em] the [G] light, all the [C] hell's on [G] the side.
We [D] look around, [G] _ there is no _ way to [B] ever _ [Em] unwind.
_ [C#] All the things [D] already done [G] by [C] _ _
sisters [G] and brothers, [Am] _ [C] brothers [G] and sons.
[B] We're supposed to [Em] stop down, [G] to rise [C#] on [G] love.
_ They would call [E] that thing, I'll [C#] be standing [F#] on the [G] side of love. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [C] I wanna [G] be there, when [D] the spaceship [G] _ _ lands.
[C] Something [G] crawls out, [C#] that we [B] don't [Em]
understand.
That's when [C] we'll all [B] embrace, [Em] the family [C#] of man.
_ [G] And the rest, [D] _ we'll [G] be king.
[C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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We the people, _ _ [B] so many gave [Em] their lives, to [C] carry [G] these words, [D] this song.
_ [G] _ We the people, [C] _
[G] _ there [B] are times [Em] that it seems, [C#] we've forgotten, who the people [D] are.
[G] _ Let [C] us listen, [G] and [Am] gladder, [C] brothers and [G] sons.
And all [Em] the lines, [G] should divide them [C#] _ _ up.
[G] They would call [E] that thing, [C#] I'll be standing [F#] on the side [G] of love. _ _ _
They would call [E] that thing, I'll [C#] be standing [F#] on the side.
[A] _ _ [C] Sisters [G] and brothers, [C] _ brothers and [G] sons.
[B] And all [Em] the lines, [G] shall divide [C#] us _ up.
[G] They would call [E] that thing, [C#] I'll be standing [Am] on the [G] side of love.
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[Gm] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _