Chords for Phil Cook & His Feat - I Won't Crumble with You If You Fall

_ Hey, Amy, I have a question for you.
Yeah.
_ And, uh, have you ever crossed paths with Sweet Honey in the Rock?
Woo!
You have?
Yeah. You have?
Yeah.
Have you met Bernice Johnson-Reagan?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Alright.
I'm gonna play a Bernice Johnson-Reagan song.
Great, great.
Uh, is she as cool as_ Yeah.
Okay, great.
Awesome.
Wait.
Someone said_
Yes, yes, yes.
You've met her?
Yes.
Oh, man. Really?
[Bm] Alright. _
_ _ _ She_
So, uh, Sweet Honey [Bb] in the Rock is a_
is an all-female a cappella vocal group who play, um, who sing, um, human and civil rights songs
and have been for decades.
And if you haven't heard of them, they're incredible.
Almost all their stuff is just, like, Smithsonian, like_
I don't know, they're incredible.
But the leader is Bernice Johnson-Reagan, who is one of the freedom fighters who was traveling the South
and doing all this stuff with the buses and, like, voting and_
And then did all of her work through, um_
I don't know.
She's [N] just an incredibly inspiring person.
And she's a talking head on all kinds of, like, documentaries about music and about the history of America.
And she's just an incredible person.
And I just feel like I want to spend_
She's the person you're like, who would you spend a day with?
You know?
And, like, people ask you that question in a board game, and you're with all your friends.
And you're like, everyone says the same.
You know?
Everyone says the same, whatever it is.
Like, when it soaks in and I really think about it, like, that's who I want to hang out with, man.
I want to hang out with her for an entire day.
And that's it.
Anyway, so I'm going to play one of her songs.
[B] _ _ _ Man, I absolutely [Bb] love it.
This is off of _ one of her first solo records, I think.
The 70s. 70s. _ _ _ _
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I _ _ [Bb] will hold back [Eb] the evening [Bb] of your summer. _
_ _ [F] But I won't [Bb]
crumble [Eb] if you move.
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_ [Eb] And I will shadow [Bb] _ the evening of [Bb] your day.
_ _ And I'll drink from the sweat of your [F] _ _ [Bb]
brow.
I will walk [Eb] to [Bb] the tune of your song.
_ _ [F] But I _ _ won't crumble [Eb] if you fall.
_ _ Come on in, walk with me.
Take me [Bb] to my hands. _ _
Touch me.
Let me know you ain't here by _ [Eb] yourself.
Stretch my [Bb] nightdreams into your day. _ _
[F] Stop sure [Fm] of falling apart if I [Eb] go down.
[Bb] _ And I will wake [Eb] in the morning [Bb] if you call. _
And I'll stay _ [Eb] beside you long as [F] I can.
_ And [Bb] I will _ hold back [Eb] the evening of [Bb] your summer. _
_ But I [F] won't _ [Bb] crumble if [Eb] you fall.
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