Chords for Sam Cooke - If I Had a Hammer - Live at Copacabana (New York City) 1964

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[A] _ [Bb] _ _ I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce to you, Kevin's going to set the tower on its ear.
He's a good friend, a swinging [Ab] artist, [Bb] and one of the nicest people I know.
All you first-nighters at the Copacabana, [Bbm] here is the swinging Mr.
Sam Cook.
Go!
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[Bm] _ [G] [Bm] I [Am] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Am] _
[Bm] [G] had a hammer, I had [Em] a hammer in the morning, _ hammer in [G] the evening, all [D] over this land.
A [G] hammer like danger, _ [Em] hammer out of warning, not the [A] hammer of [G] love [C] between my [G] brothers
and my [C] sisters, [D] no, [G] all over this land.
_ If I had a song, I mean a bell, [Em] I'd tinkle in the morning if I had a bell, you understand?
Tinkle in the [G] evening time, listen, all [D] over this land.
I'd [G] tinkle out that danger, I'd [Em] tinkle out the warning, and I'd [C] tinkle out the [G] love [C] between
my [G] brothers and my [C] sisters, [D] no, all [G] over this land.
Now, if I had a song, I'd [Em] sing it in the morning, yeah, sing it in the [G] evening, all [D] over this land.
And I'd [G] sing out danger, [Em] sing out a warning, I'd [C] sing out [G] love [C] between my [G] brothers and
[C] my sisters, [D] no, all [G] over this land.
_ _ Yeah, _ [Em] oh, yeah, _ [G] yeah, _ [Em] oh, yeah, _ [G] yeah, _ [Em] yeah, _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Em] hammer in the morning, _ [G] hammer in the evening
time, all [D] over this land.
Look what I'd do.
I'd [G] hammer out danger, [Em] hammer out a warning, yeah, [C] hammer out [G] love [C] between [G] my brothers
and [C] my sisters, [D] no, all [G] over this land.
Look, I've got a hammer, _ [Em] and I've got a bell, yeah, I've [G] got a song to sing all [D] over this land.
Let me tell you what it is.
It's the [G] hammer of justice, [Em] a bell of freedom, yeah, it's a [C] song about [G] love [C] between [G] my brothers
and [C] my sisters, [D] no, all [G] over this land.
Ha, _ yeah, Lord have mercy, [Em] yeah, _ [G] yeah, _ _
_ [Em] yeah.
I [G] wonder what everybody would clap for me tonight.
Put your hands together and clap [Em] for me.
That's right, make me feel good.
Ha, _ [G] _ hoo, [Em] yeah, Lord have mercy, now that gets it.
[G] Yeah, hoo, _ [Em] yeah, I wonder do you feel like singing, would you sing with me?
[G] And we have one of those boot nabbits.
[Em] Look, I want everybody, everybody [G] try this.
If I had a hammer, everybody, [Em] if I had a hammer.
Here we go, come on.
If [G] I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd [Em] hammer in the morn, hammer in the evening,
I'd [G] hammer in the heat, all over this land, all [D] over this land.
I'd hammer out danger, I'd [G] hammer out danger, a warning, [Em] I'd hammer out a warning, love,
I'd [C] hammer out [G] love [C] between my [G] brothers and my [C] sisters.
Where, [D] where, _ [G] you got it, now keep it, don't lose it.
Yeah, ha, ha, hoo, yeah, Lord have mercy, yeah, yeah.
_ [Em] We're gonna take a bell this time.
[G] Everybody take, if I had a [Em] bell.
All right, here we go.
If I [G] had a bell, _ I'd ring it [Em] in the morning, I'd ring it in the evening, I'd ring it [G] in
the heat, all over this land, all over [D] this land.
I'd ring out danger, [G] I'd ring out danger, and a warning, [Em] I'd ring out a warning, I'd
like to love, I'd ring out [G] love between [G] my brothers and my sisters.
Where, [C] [D] where, _
[G] that's the place.
Ha, yeah, hoo, yeah, Lord have mercy, [Em] yeah.
You wanna try one more?
[G] Everybody try, if I had a song.
[Em] If I had one of them songs, honey, now go, if I [G] had a song.
Here we go, now, if I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning, [Em] I'd sing it in the morning,
I'd sing it in the evening, I'd sing [G] it in the evening, all over this land, all over [D] this land.
I'd sing out danger, baby, I'd sing [G] out danger in the morning, I'd sing [Em] out a warning, love,
I'd sing [C] out love [G] between [C] my brothers and [G] my sisters.
[C] Where, where, [G] where, [D] over [G] this [C] land. _
[G] Ha, yeah, hoo, yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _