Chords for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (Album Version) (1976)

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[D#m] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [D#m] Wake up [G#m] everybody, [D#m] no more sleeping [G#m] in bed, [D#m] no more [G#m] back thinking, [B] time for thinking ahead.
[D#m] The world has changed so [G#m] very much from what it used to be.
[D#m] There's so [G#m] much hatred, [B] war and poverty. _ _ _
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_ _ [D#m] Wake up all [G#m] teachers, time [D#m] to teach a new [G#m] way.
_ [D#m] Maybe then [G#m] they'll listen to what [B] you have to say.
[D#m] They're the ones [G#m] who's coming up [D#m] and the world is in [G#m] their hands.
[D#m] When you teach the [G#m] children to jump the [B] very best you can. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] The world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better _
[G#m] if we [C#] just let it [F#] be. _ _
[B] The world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better, [B] we gotta change it [C#] now, just [F#] you and me.
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[F#] _ _ [B] _ [D#m] Wake up all [G#m] doctors, [D#m] make the old people [G#m] well.
[D#m] They're the ones who suffer [B] and who catch all the hell.
[D#m] They don't [G#m] have so very long before their judgment day.
[D#m] So won't you make [G#m] them happy [B] before they pass away. _ _ _ _
[D#m] Wake up all [G#m] the builders, [D#m] time to build a [G#m] new land.
[D#m] I know we can [G#m] do it if we [B] all lend a hand.
The [D#m] only thing we [G#m] have to do is [D#m] put it in our minds.
Surely things will [G#m] work out, they [B] do it every time.
_ _ _ _ The [C#m] world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better _ [G#m] if [C#] we just let [F#] it be.
Na na na na na na [B] na na na.
[C#m] The world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better, [G#m] we gotta change it now, just [F#] you and [B] me.
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[B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#] Change it, [B] change it, [F#] just you and me.
[F#] Change it, [B] change [F#] it, and do it alone.
[B] _ [F#] Need some help y [B]'all, y'all.
And [F#] do it alone, and [B] do it alone.
[F#] Yeah, [B] yeah.
[F#] Wake up [B] _ _ [F#] everybody, [B] _ _ [F#] wake [B] up _ [F#] everybody.
[B] _ [F#] Need a little help [B] y'all, yes we [F#] do.
Need a little help, said I need some [B] help y'all.
[F#] I'll change the world, _ what it [B] used to [F#] be. _
[B] Can't [F#] do it _ [B] alone, [F#] need some [B] help y'all.
[F#] Wake up [B] everybody, [F#] _ _
[B] _ [F#] get up.
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[B] _ _ [F#] _ [B] Wake up, [F#] come on, [B] come on.
[F#] Wake up everybody, _ be [B] genuine.
_ [F#] Maybe then they'll listen, what you have [B] to say.
Wake up everybody, [F#] no more [B] sleeping in bed.
[F#] No more back to thinking, top of thinking ahead.
[B] Come on [F#] now, _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[B] _ [F#] wake up [B] _ [F#] everybody. _
[B] _ [F#] I'm talking [B] about don't push out, [F#] stop pushing [B] that don't push.
[F#] Well, don't use us, _ stop using [B] the don't.
[F#] Wake up, [B] yeah.
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[B] Well, [F#] what you tell me [B] now, wonder what you tell [F#] me now. _
[B] _ _ [F#] Lost [B] lion, _ [F#] lost [B] preacher, _ [F#] lost [B] teacher.
_ [F#] Wake up [B] y'all, [F#] come on.
_ _ _ You [B] preacher, _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] stop preaching what [B] you teach.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] Speak the truth, _
[B] _ _ [F#] wake up [B] preacher.
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[B] _ _ [F#] God [B] liars, _ [F#] _ _
[B] _ _ [F#] politicians. _ _ _ _
[B] Stop [F#] _ [B] lying, [F#] stop lying.
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
[B] Why _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ [F#] don't _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] somebody help the [B] old people.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] Help the baby, [B] _ [F#] help the baby.
[B] Help me, [F#] you businessmen.
[B] _ _ Stop cheating, stop cheating, [F#] stop [B] cheating, [F#] stop cheating, stop [B] cheating, stop cheating.
[F#] Wake up, [B] yeah.
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[G#] It _ don't matter.
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[B] _ [F#] One race, _ _ creed or [G#] color.
_ Everybody, [A#] _ [F#] we need each [B] other.
_ [F#] Wake up, yeah.
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_ Well, [F#] _ you see, _
[B] we [F#] need, wake up, _ _ _ _
[G#] we need.
Come on now, [F#] wake up everybody.
No more sleeping [B] in bed.
[F#] No more [G#] backward thinking, top of thinking ahead.
_ Wake up all you teachers, start to teach a [B] new way.
[G#] Never was no suffer, [F#] better than [B] today.
[G#] _ Teach the children, [F#] teach the _ [B] babies.
Teach the children, [F#] _ _ [G#] teach the [F#] babies.
Teach the [B] children, teach the [F#] babies.
They're the ones who's got it. _ _ _
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