Chords for India Arie - What If

[Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] What if Martin didn't [G] stand up? _
_ [Am] What if Rosa didn't sit down? _ _
[Em] _ What if Malcolm didn't [G] matter? _ _ _
_ [A] _ Where would we be now? _ _
[Em] _ What if Molly didn't [G] get upset, if Du Bois didn't come to [D] advance us?
And [Am] Mandela didn't come to teach us?
Where would we [Em] be now?
We are the ones people are [Bm] waiting for.
We can change the world, [G] we can change the world
[C] With our love, love, [Em] love, love, love, love, [Bm] love
_ _ _ Cause it is [C] up to _ [Em] us _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] We are the ones we've been [G] waiting for
We can [Em] change the world
Our love can [Bm] change the world
We can change the world
With [C] our love, love, [Em] love, love, love, love, love
[D] Our _ _ [Bm] _ love [Em]
will rule the world
What if Maya didn't [Bm] speak out? _ _
[D] _ [Am] What if Langston Hughes didn't write it down?
_ [Em] What if Josephine [G] Baker didn't dance it [Bm] out?
No
[A] Tell me where would we be now? _ _
[Em] _ What if Sojourner [Bm] never told the truth?
Or Ida B.
Wells never printed the [D] news?
Harriet [Am] never went underground?
[Em] Where would we be now?
We are the ones we've been [Bm] waiting for
We can change the world, [G] we can change the [C] world
With our love, love, [Em] love, love, love, love, [Bm] love
_ _ _ Cause it is [C] up to _ _ _ [Em] _ us _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] We are the ones we've been [C] waiting for
We can change the [Em] world
Our love can [Bm] change the world
We can change the world
With [C] our love, love, love, [Em] love, love, love, love, [Bm] love
_ _ _ _ Our love can change the [C] world
Me too, I [Bm] matter, you matter, we [Em] matter
_ Together we are love
[G] _ _
[C] _ Me too, I [Bm] matter, you matter, we matter _
[Em] _ [Bm] Together we are [Em] love
_ [G] _
[C] It's gotta be all of [F#m] us
Stand up and speak out
With all of our [Bm] love
[D] Oh, love, love, love, [F#m] love, love, love, [E] love _
[C#m] Cause _ it is [D] up to _ us
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[C#m] We are the ones we've been [D] waiting for
We can change the [F#m] world
Our love can [E] change the world
We can change the [C#m] world
With [D] our love, love, love, [F#m] love, love, love, [E] love, love
[C#m] Our _ love can change the [F#m] world _
_ Oprah, _ [C#m] Kamala, Ava, Tarana, [Bm] and Lena
Serena, Viola, Oprah, Patrice, and [F#m] Alicia
You and me are the [C#m] chosen
Right now this is our moment
[E] [Bm] We are a people of motion
Our love's gonna change the world _ _ _ _ _