Chords for Kris Kristofferson - They Killed Him & Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down

_ _ _ [C] Thank you.
We're very proud to be able to lend our voice to [Gm] this celebration of [E] human rights and _ _
To be joining the the artists that we've we've been able [A] to perform with up here on the stage.
It's also a privilege
[N] _ _ _ For for a change to be [Gb] to be singing to [Abm] people who are as committed [F] to
Human rights as we are so thank you
It's a [A] privilege.
It's a privilege.
[Ab] It's a privilege to be able to perform in [D] front of people _ who have [Bm] gathered here to celebrate the preservation [E] of human rights.
Yeats wrote
[A] _ _
[A] Turning and turning in the widening jar [F] the falcon cannot hear the [A] falconer
_ Things fall apart
The [Bb] center cannot hold
[Gb] And mere energy is loosed
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The [Eb] blood dimmed tide is loosed
And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction
While the worst are filled with passionate intensity
[A] _ _ [E] At this [G] critical time [Eb] in our history
[B] We have to pray for [Db] _ _ leadership with [E] the [F] courage and the vision [D] not to bombard [Dm] _ _ _ _
our enemies
[D] In this critical time we have to lead with good leadership, political leadership, moral and spiritual leadership
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_ _ _ Well the man named Mahatma Gandhi would not bow down and not fight
If the deal was down and dirty
Nothing wrong could make it [G] right or [Bb] right
But he knew his duty
_ And the price he had to pay
Just _ _ _ _ another [C] holy man
Who tried to [Bb] make the sand
Gandhi _ [F] killed him _ _ _
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_ Another man from Atlanta, Georgia
Named Martin Luther King
Took the land like golden thunder
Made the bells of freedom [G] ring [Bb] today
With a dream of beauty
That they could not [F] burn away
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Just another [C] holy man
Who dared to be a friend
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My God they [F] killed him
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The _ _ only son of God almighty
Only one called Jesus Christ
_ Heal the lame and fed the hungry
For his love they took his life away
On the road to glory
_ Where the story never ends _ _
_ _ Just another holy son [C] of man
We'll never _ [Bb] understand
_ My God they [F] killed him _ _ _
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Sing about Mahatma Gandhi
Sing of Martin Luther King
Sing of Jesus Christ almighty
And the brothers Kennedy _
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[D] _ _ We've got that [N] other good part
_ _ Do I gotta [G] play this? _
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Killing babies in [D] the name of freedom
We've _ _ _ been down [E] that sorry [D] road [A] before
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[D] Letting us hang around a little longer
Than they [Gbm] should've _
[D] It's too late to fool us [D] anymore
[E] _ We've _ _
_ [A] seen the ones [E] who killed the ones [A] with vision _ _ _
Cold-blooded [E] murder right [D] before your eyes
The _
_ [D] day they hold the power [A] and the money and the gun
[Gbm]
It's [D] _ getting hard to listen to [E] their lies
And _
_ [D] I just gotta wonder what [A] my daddy would've done _
[D] He'd seen the way they turned this dream [A] around
_ I _ [D] _ _ gotta go by what he [A] told me
Try _ _ _ to tell the [D] truth and stand your ground _ _ _
_ _ Don't let the bastards get you down
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[Dbm] _ _ [D] just gotta wonder what my [A] daddy would've done
_ [D] He'd seen the way they turned this [A] dream around _ _ _
_ _ [D] I gotta go by what [A] he told me _ _
_ _ Try to tell the [D] truth and stand your ground _ _
_ _ Don't let the bastards get you down
Don't let the bastards get you down
Don't let [D] the bastards get you [A] down
Don't let [D] the bastards get you [A] down _ _ _ _
_ Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you
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