Chords for J.B. Lenoir - The Whale Has Swallowed Me

[D] _ I [G] never will love Alabama.
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ Alabama seem to never have love [Gm] for me.
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] [C] I never will love Alabama.
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ Alabama seem to never have love for me.
From every _ [G] mountainside, let freedom ring.
And if [C] America's to be a great [Gm] nation,
Oh, God, I wish you would rise up one [Dm] day.
Let freedom [G] ring.
[A] And lead my people to [G] the land of the free.
Let freedom ring.
[Bb]
From the mighty mountains of New York,
[N] let freedom ring from the hyping alligators of Central Virginia.
[G] Let freedom ring from the small cap Rockies of Colorado.
_ Let freedom ring.
Is there a whale swallow Jonah?
_ _ I didn't see blue sea. _ _ _ _
Sometime I get that old funny [E] feeling.
_ That same old [Bb] whale, [C] they'll swallow me.
I [G] live in Mississippi, [Abm]
[Gm] from every mountainside,
let freedom ring.
And when it happens, _ _ _ [G] let me rise up.
Yes, I live.
When we let it ring from every _ mountainside,
from every state and every city.
I do [C] believe one day [Gm] _ I will fly across over [G] this hill.
Protestants and [Cm] Catholics [Bb] will be
able to join hands [C] and [Gm] sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, free at last, [C] free at [G] last.
Thanks be to God almighty.
We are free at last.
We are free at last.
We are free at last.
Every time we let it ring, _ _ _ one [Gm] _ day, [C] _ every [Gm] living creature
will hear our song.
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I believe the whale [G] I see, _ _ that's why I have been blue. _ _ _
_ I do believe one day _
[C] _ [Gm] he will find a turnmill job.
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