Chords for Patty Griffin: Live from the Artists Den - "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)"

_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _
This is a speech that Martin Luther King made, _
his last speech that he made.
It's a mountain speech,
and that's the name of the song, goes like [F#] this.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ ♪ I went up to the mountains _ ♪
_ ♪ Because [F#] you asked me to _ _ _ _ _ ♪
♪ Up over [G#m] the _ _ clouds _ _ _ to where the [E] sky was blue _ _ ♪
♪ I could see [B] all around _ _ me, _ _ _ _
_ [F#] everywhere _ _ ♪
♪ I could see [G#m] all around me, _ [E] _ _ _ _
everywhere [B] ♪ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ ♪ Sometimes I feel like I never _ had [F#] nothing but _ time _ ♪
_ _ _ _ ♪ [G#m] And I'll be _ working _ till the day _ I [E] _ _ expire ♪
_ _ ♪ Sometimes I [B] lay _ _ down, _ _ _ _ no more [F#] can I do ♪ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] ♪ Then I go [D#] on again, _ _ _
_ [E] _ because _ you [B] asked me to _ _ ♪
♪ Some [G#m] days I look [E] _ _ down, _ _ _ _ afraid [B] I will fall ♪ _
_ _ ♪ And though [F#] the sun [C#] _ [G#] shines, _ _
_ [C#m] _ I see nothing, [F#] oh _ _ _ _ _ _ ♪
♪ I hear your _ [E] sweet voice, _ _ _ _ _ _ oh come and then [G#m] go, _ _ _ come and [E] then go _ ♪
♪ Telling [B] me softly, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
you [F#] love me so _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ ♪ _ _ _
_ [F#] ♪ And _ _ the _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] peaceful _ valley, _ _ _ you _ come [E] _ to know ♪
_ ♪ I never [B] get _ _ there, _ _ _ _ _
ever [F#] in this _ lifetime _ ♪
_ ♪ But [G#m] soon or later, _
_ [E] _ _ _ _
there I [G#m] will be, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, _ [D#m] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ soon or [B] _ later, _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ there _ _ I will be, _ oh, [B] _ _
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ _ _
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[D] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _