Chords for Storyteller Sessions: My Lord - Michael Franti & Spearhead

_ [C] _ _ _ The song My Lord [G] is an autobiographical song and it's about _ _
_ [Em] how I was born and given up
for adoption as a baby.
My birth mother is Irish, German, and Belgian.
My birth father is African American and Native American and I was adopted by the Franti family
who are Finnish Americans, second generation in our country.
They had three kids of their own, they adopted myself and another African American son.
I grew up in this very mixed household and _ _ [G] a lot of my life has been _ [Em] retracing my steps,
finding my ancestry, searching to find my birth parents so that I can deeper understand
who I am as a person, understand the cultures from which I came from, the history from which I came.
_ _ All of us go through these moments in life where we look for _ understanding in something
that is greater than ourselves.
Some people find it through a spiritual or religious practice, some people find it through
taking walks in the park or the beach or sitting with a close friend and talking or through
meditation and being quiet or through yoga.
A lot of us find it in music and this song is just a song that basically says that whatever
way you find that peace, _ that it's okay.
There's seven billion of us on the planet, all of us have a different way to get there.
_ [B] So it goes like this. _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] My lord, my lord, my [G] lord, my _ _ [D] lord, show me all the things I [C] need to know.
_ _ [Em] My lord, my lord, my [G] _ _ _ [D] lord, take me to the place I [C] need to go.
_ [Em] Ba da da, _
_ [G] _ _ ba [D] ba da da, ba [C] ba da _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [Em] da, take me to the place I need [G] to go.
_ _ _ [Dm] Take me to the place I [C] need to go.
_ _ _ [Em] I bought a guitar, [G] now I wrote a song.
I [D] _ wrote it down for you [C] so you could sing along.
[Em] _ The flames of my heart [G] went pounding through my head, [D] turning teardrops, [C] and this is what they [Em] said.
My lord, my lord, my lord, [G] my lord, _ [D] show me all the things I need [C] to know.
_ _ [Em] _ My lord, my lord, my lord, _ _ _ _ [D] take me to the place I need [C] to go.
Here we go.
Ba [Em] da da, _
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ba ba [C] _ _ _ [Em] da da, _ _
_ [G] _ _ ba [A] ba da _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Em] da, my lord, my lord, my lord, [G] my lord, _ [Dm] show me all the
things I [C] need to know.
_ _ [Em] _ My lord, my lord, my lord, [G] my lord, [D] take me to the place I need [C] to go.
_ _ [Em] Take me to the place I [G] need to go.
_ _ _ [A] Take me to the place I [C] need to go.
_ [Em] _ Take me to the place I [G] need to go.
_ _ _ [D] Take me to the place I [C] need to go.
Here we go.
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