Broken Rainbow Chords by Laura Nyro

_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ [G] _ The [C] old people [F] of the [G] earth tell [C] stories
[Dm] An [G]
old [C] woman of the [F] old [G] ways, _
[Dm] she said
_ [Em] I [D] recall _ [G] all [Fm] my joy in [F] better [Dm] _ _ _ days
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ [G] _ [C] Young warriors [F] of the [G] open [C] _ [F] rainbow
[G] So tell [C] me, is it [Dm] true, [G] _
[Dm] tell _ me
_ [Em] Do some live out of bags and rags [Fm] in the city too?
_ _ [F] Is it true? _
_ [C] At _ _ [F] _ [G] _
the [C] edge where [Dm] I [G] _ [F] live
_ Home [G] _ _ [Dm] _ sweet home
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] America, [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Em] the [C] earth whence [F] they set [G] our _ religion
_ [F] _
Is in these [G] [F] lands and _ [Em] skies, _ [Dm] _ sweet mother
_ _ [Em]
Our lands grown _ [Fm] to modern _ worlds
_ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
Modern [C] lives and _ [F] _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ [Em] the new [C]
ecology
[F] _ [Em] You know we [C] were the [Dm] _
[G] first, believe [Dm] _ _ me
We [Em] will be the last _ _ [Fm] to keep the light
For the [F] earth _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [G]
At [C] the edge where [F] I [Em] live
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ Home sweet [F] home
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] America, _
[C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [C] Native [Bb] American nation
[C] Caught in the [Ab] devastation
_ [C] In [Bb] this _ _ [C] situation
[Ab] The _ _
_ [C] _ [Dm] ghost of _ [C] prejudice
_ [Ab] _ _ Poet [C] _ _ [Dm]
on a crime [Ab] page
[Bb] Broken _ [Gm] _ _ [F] rainbow
Rainbow, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] brown [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[F] rainbow
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Gm] Home sweet home _ _ _
[Bb] America
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