Chords for R.I.P Nelson Mandela The Legend

_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I went [B] to see [Am] a legend [A] _ _ [F] _ [G] just the other [C] night _ _ [Am] At the Yankee [Em] _ Stadium _ [F] _ underneath [G] the lights
_ [A] He heard a man [Em] speaking _ [F] after years and years [C] in jail
_ His [B] name it was [Am] Mandela _ [F] and he [G] came to tell [C] his tale
_ The _ _ _ crowd they cheered [Am] him loudly _ [F] but then [G] the [C] silence fell
As [Am] he spoke about [Em] the _ hardships [F] in the South African [G] South _
_ [Am] Though he [E] was free [Em] _
[F] his heart was [C] feeling the pain
For his country [B] and [A] his people [Am]
were [F] still a part [G] of [C] that shame _
_ _ _ He said he [G] hoped that he [Am] would join them [F] and walk [G] down [C] freedom's path
_ [Am] And these oaths would be [Em] the hardest, [F] oh but they would be [G] the last
[D] _ [Am] And to join our hands [Em] together _ [F] just so we might [C] be as one
And to bring [B] ourselves _ [Am] to the cause [F] so this war [G] it could [C] be won
I _ _ _ went to [G] bed that [Am] _ evening, [F] went to sleep [D] and I [C] had a dream _
[Am] I was standing in [Em] the pouring rain [F] in an Irish field [G] of green
And [Am] _ all around [Em] the _ headstones [F] were the martyrs of [C] the past
They stood [Am] there in silence _ [F] and they spoke [G] to me [C] aloud _
_ _ _ _ Kevin [G] Barry is [Am] my name and [F] they died [G]
in [C] the South
They [Am] wanted the names of [Em] my _ comrades, [F] oh but this I did [G] not tell
_ [A] And I am Roger [Em] _ Casement, [F] I was shot in [C] London town
_ For bringing [G] _
[Am] German rifles _ [F] to the [G] lonely _ [C] Bastion
_ _ _ _ [F] _
[C] James [G] Connolly is [Am] my name, working [F] people [G] are [C] my life _
[Am] When they shot me _ [Em] down _ [F] in Kilmainham jail [G] with strife _
_ [Am] And I am Patrick [Em] _ Pierce, [F] I was shot down by [C] the foe
I read [B] the _ [Am] proclamation _ [F] at the steps [G] of the _ [C] _ GPO
_ _ _ _ And the last [G]
voice [Am] that I heard _ [F] says my name [G] is [C] Bobby Sons
_ [Am] And it's good to hear [Em] my daughter's words [F] ringing [G] through the land
I [Am] want to hear them [Em] in Belfast, [F] _ Derry [C] and Tyrone
_ Oh maybe then [A]
those English soldiers _ [F] will know it's [G] time to [C] go home _ _ _ _
I woke [G] up [Am] in the morning, _ [F] I [G] remember [C] them all _
_ [Am] And to _ [Em] what belief that [F] day knocked down the [G] Berlin Wall _
_ [Am] And now said [Em] my daughter, _ [F] oh could this [C] really be _
Oh maybe now we would [Am] see Ireland _ [F] reunited [G] _ [C] and free _
_ Yes _ maybe [G] now we would [Am] see Ireland _ [F] _ _
reunited _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] and free _ _ _ _ _ _
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