Chords for Patti Smith & Michael Stipe - People Have the Power

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I _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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[D] was dreaming _ in my [G] dreaming, [D] well of an aspect bright [G] and fair.
In [D] my sleeping _ it was [G] broken, _ [D] but my dream it lingered [G] near.
[D] In the farmock [G] shining valleys [D] where the pure air _ [G] _
rarefied,
and [D] my senses a [G] newly opened, I [D] awaken into [G] the cry
[F#m] that the people [G] have the power to [D] redeem _ the work [E] of fools.
Upon [F#m] the meek the [G] grace is shower, _ [D] it's decreed the [A] people rule. _ _ _ _
People have [D] the power.
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People [Em] have the power.
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People have [D] the power.
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People have [Em] the power.
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_ _ [D] _ aspects [G] became suspect and bending [D] low as if [G] to hear.
And [D] the armies [G] ceased advancing _ [D] because the people [G] had their ear.
[D] And the _ shepherds and [G] the soldiers, [D] well they lay beneath [G] the scars,
[D] exchanging visions, [G] laying arms [D] to wife. _
[G] In the dust _ [F#m] in the farm of [G] shining valleys _ [D] where the pure air _
[E] _ rarefied,
[F#m] and my senses [G] newly opened, _ [D] I awaken _ [A] into the cry
_ _ _ that the people [D] have the power.
[G] _ _ People have [Em] the power.
_ [A] _ _ People [D] have the power.
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People [Em] have the power.
_ [A] Make it [D] so!
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Where [D] there were deserts, I saw [G] fountains, and [D] like cream the [G] waters rise.
And [D] we strove and there [G] together we none to [D] laugh or [G] criticize. _ _
[D] Well the leopard _ [G] and the lamb [D] lay together, were [G] truly bound.
Well [D] I was hoping, _ [G] in my hoping to [D] recall what [G] I'd found.
I [F#m] was dreaming, in [G] my dreaming, _ [D] God knows a [E] pure view.
As [F#m] I surrender into [G] my sleeping, I [D] commit _ my [A] dream to you. _ _
_ _ People [D] have the power to [G] _ dream.
People [Em] have the power _ _
[A] to fight.
People [D] have the power [G] to strike.
People [Em] have the power [A] to live.
The power [D] to dream. _
[G] To rule, _ [Em] to wrestle the world [A] from fools.
[D] It's to create the [G] people who rule.
Well [Em] it's to create the people [A] who rule.
Listen, [D] I believe [G] everything we dream [Em] can come to pass [A] through our union.
_ [D] We can turn [G] the world.
We [Em] can turn the fields [A] that we worship.
People [D] have the power. _
[G] _ _ People [Em] have the power. _ _
[A] _ _ People [D] have the power. _
[G] _ _ People [Em] have the power. _
[A] _ _ _ Don't forget it.
[D] Use your _ voice. _ _ _
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Democracy now!
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