Chords for RAISE IT UP- 80TH OSCARS

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_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ I'm [D] going _ to work [Gm] it out.
_ _ My friends keep [C] on telling me how I [Eb] don't need that [Cm] man.
[Gm] But they don't really _ understand.
There's far too [C] many pressures in _ [A] reality.
_ Dealing with [Gm] the pain and stress and poverty.
_ I gotta [C] be _ [Cm] myself because there's nobody [Gm] else for me. _ _ _ _
Sometimes it takes [Eb] a different kind of love to [Gm] raise a child.
So don't give up.
_ [C] _
Sometimes it takes [Cm] a different kind of dream to [Gm] make you smile. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sometimes we need another helping hand to show the way.
So don't give up.
[C] Sometimes _ it seems [Cm] impossible and that's why [Bb]
we pray.
_ [Gm] There seems to [C] be nothing left for [Gm] me.
_ Mama's gone, daddy didn't want to be.
And now I'm [C] all by myself [Eb] wondering where he is now.
Should [Gm] I just give up, you know?
Life for _ [C] me cuts into my [Gm] soul.
But I know I got the strength to make you through it all.
Because I'm [C] still standing tall, breaking [Cm] through these walls of [Gm] _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ pain.
Feeling like a [Bb] motherless [Gm] child.
_ Pain cuts into my _ [A] soul.
It's beating me [D]
down, can't find a [Gm] smile.
On the [F] face of a [Bb] motherless child.
[Cm] Gonna break down this wall, [A] gonna give it my [Am] [Gm] all.
_ Yeah, [D] yeah, _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ yeah.
[C] _
Sometimes [Gm] it takes a different kind of love to raise a child.
So don't give [C] up.
Sometimes it [Cm] seems impossible _ [Gm] and that's why we pray.
So raise it _ up.
Hang in there [C] with me.
Sometimes it takes [Eb] another helping hand [Gm] to show the way.
So don't give up.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ Sometimes [Gm] it seems impossible and that's why we pray.
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