Chords for India Arie - What if [LYRICS]

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