Natalia Chords by Joan Baez

[B] _ _ _ _ The beautiful [F#] song [Bm] that was written, [G#] moving onward from the horse field [F#] to people,
was written about a political prisoner in [F] USSR.
In USSR, [G#] when you do something naughty, they throw you in the mental hospital and tell you you're a cuckoo
and try to get everybody else to believe it.
And the terrible thing is that eventually, sometimes, you get to believing it too.
But there is one woman named Natalia Gorbanevskaya who never [F] believed it.
She was very, very strong.
She wrote a poem about the _ [A#] invasion of Czechoslovakia.
She thought it was a very poor [F] idea.
And when she [Fm] wrote the poem, the government of the USSR thought she was a [G#] very poor idea.
And they [A] put her in the old bug house.
She was pregnant at the time.
She was [Fm] very strong.
[F] And she convinced herself she would be [A#m] fine.
She would have her child.
She would go on [N] speaking out.
So every time she comes out of the loony bin, she writes [A] another poem and they put her back in.
But it [F] is because of people like Natalia [E] Gorbanevskaya,
I am convinced that you and I are still alive [F] and walking around on the [B] face of the Earth.
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A keeper of _ [C#] _ _ [G#m] words
Who lives _ _ [F#] alone
In fear and [D#m] sorrow
[F#] _ _ _
[B] Where _ are the _ _ [G#m]
words
To set you free
[F#] _ _ _ Perhaps [D#m] tomorrow
_ [F#] _
Where [E] _ _ _ is the _ Earth
[D#m] _ Where is the sky _ _
[C#m] Where is the light [F#] you long _ for
_ _ [G#] _ [C#m] _
What hope of you
_ [B] _ Where you are
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
Natalia _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ Gorbanevskaya _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Inside [G#m] the word _ _
Naked and cruel
_ [F#] _ Where life is [D#m] stolen
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _
From those who try
[G#m] _ _
To stay alive
_ [F#] _
And not be [D#m] _ [F#] broken _ _ _
[E] _ Where are the friends
Where _ [D#m] _ are the men
_ [C#m] _
Who among them
Can [F#] defend you
_ _ Where [C#m] _
is the _ _ _ [B] child
You'll never _ _ [C#m] see
_ Natalia _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [B]
Gorbanevskaya _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ What is there [C#] _ left
[G#m] _ Behind the door
[F#] _ _ That never _ opens
_ _ _ [B] _ Are you insane
_ [G#m] _ As they say you _ _ _ [F#] are
Or just _ [D#m] forsaken
[F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _
Are you still there
_ [D#m] _
Do you still care
_ [C#m] _ Or are you lost [F#] forever _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] I know [C#] this song
[B] _ _ You'll never _ _ [C#m] hear
_ Natalia _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#m] _ Gorbanevskaya _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ Natalia _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ Gorbanevskaya _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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