Chords for Robert Mirabal's "Holding Up the Sky"

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[G] _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] There's a rumble in the heavens and [A] all hell [G] is breaking [E] loose.
[D] Apocalyptic [A] horseman and he swings the [E] hangman's goose.
Lift me from the gallows, cries [A] my heart [G] and not [E] my head.
[D] No rest for [A] the wicked and [Em] no threat to the dead. _
[D] Oh, won't [A] you save me, cries [Em] the dead [E] cadet.
[D] Save me, cries [A] the mama's [E] sons.
They cried.
[C] Save me, cries [D] the born again.
Oh, [Am] save the lone.
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Save yourself [A] by holding up [E] the sky. _ _ _
Holding up the sky, you and I.
We're holding up the sky, you and I.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ Well, I pray that all my babies shall [A] become the [E] elder ones.
[D] Multiply [A] the plowshares like [G] we multiply [E] the guns.
Well, no man is an island and [A] I think [G] the time [E] has come.
[D] Meet down by [A] the river to [Em] wear one by one.
Oh, [A] won't you save me, [E] cries the [G] wealthy [E] man.
[D] Save me, [A] cries the hungry [E] ones.
They cried.
[C] Save me, [D] cries that heaven don't [A] fall down [D] on me.
Save myself [A] by holding up [E] the sky. _ _
Holding up the sky, [A] [Em] you and I.
We're holding [E] up the sky, [A] you [E] and I.
We're holding up the sky, [A] you [E] and I.
We're holding up the sky, [A] you and I. _
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[D] Oh, [A] won't you save me, [E] cries the [G] wealthy [E] man.
[D] Save me, [A] cries the hungry [E] ones.
They cried.
Save me, [D] cries that heaven [G] don't [Am] fall down on [D] me.
Save [A] myself by holding [E] up the sky. _ _
Holding [E] up the sky, you and I.
We're holding up the sky, _ you and I.
We're holding up the sky, [Em] you [E] and I.
We're holding [Em] up, we're holding [A] up, we're holding [E] up the sky.
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If a man loses anything, he [A] goes back and [Em] looks carefully for it.
He [E] will find it.
And that is what the Indians are doing now when they ask you to give them
things that were promised to them in the past.
And I do not consider that they should be treated like beasts.
And that is the reason I have grown up with the feelings that I have.
I feel that my country has gotten a bad name, and I want it to have a good name.
It used to have a good name.
And I sit sometimes and wonder who it is that has given it a bad name.
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