Chords for The Neville Brothers - Let My People Go and Get Up, Stand Up (Live at Farm Aid 1994)

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_ _ _ _ When [B] Moses _ was in Egypt _ _ land, he told the _ Pharaohs, say you better _ _ [F#] let my _ _
_ [A] _ _ people _ _ [Bm] go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Now _ _ when Martin and Malcolm and Bobby and John was in _ America, _ _ _ _ they told these old modern day _ Pharaohs, they said you better let [F#] my [F#] _ _ _ [A] people _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] go. _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ Let [Bm] the spirit move you. _
[A] Let it move you now.
We need [Bm] _ everybody.
_ [A] _ Come [B] on, join [Bm] _
me.
Join me now.
Cause we're trying to find [A] somebody _ _ _ [Bm] who _ understands.
[B] _ _ [A] _ They've got other [A] problems _ _ [Bm] all over this land, [B] all over the land.
Well [Bm] they've gotten to our [A] children.
Oh Lord, well [Bm] they've taken their minds.
[A] Yes they have.
_ [Bm] They've got brothers killing [B] brothers.
Oh Lord, [Bm] at the drop of a gun, [A] somebody listen to me Lord.
[B] Oh _
[Bm] _ _ _ [B] Lord, let my people go.
Well they're dying in the streets Lord now.
Oh _ _ _ [Bm] Lord, let my people go.
_ _ _ _ Down on [Bm] every _ [A] corner.
Oh [Bm] they're everywhere.
[B] Drug dealers everywhere.
[Bm] But if you're a paying [B] customer, Lord [A] Lord, it don't seem [Bm] like nobody _ [B] cares.
_ We've got to lose our temptation _ _ _ [Bm] to live with sin.
[A] Everybody try to listen y'all [Bm] to find [B] a solution.
_ Everybody [Bm] look deep within.
_ [A] Look in the mirror now Lord.
[Bm] Oh _ _ _ Lord, let my people go.
_ Let _ _ my _ _ _ _ _ _ people go.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] All across the nation, _ _ [E] we're losing our self respect.
As Americans, [G] we're running out of [D] patience.
_ You [A] know we've got to find a way to get it [Bm] back. _
_ Let my people go. _
Oh Lord, let my people go.
Talking [B] about the black ones, the white ones, the red ones, the brown [Bm] ones, the yellow ones, the yellow [B] ones.
_ _ [F#] Find a way to get our kids out of the line.
We've got to find a way to stop all this crime.
They've got shooting [B] up, smoking crack, whatever new drug.
[E] We've got to find a way to get our kids to rise up [Bm] above.
Oh Lord, _ _ let _ my people go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ Let [Bm] my people go.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _
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_ _ [B] _ Talking about [Bm] the black ones, the white ones, the red [Bm] ones, the brown ones, the yellow ones, the female [F#] ones, the little bitty ones, all those ones that got [B] no money.
This _ is America, the [B] home of the brave and the land of the free.
But if you ain't got no money, life ain't so funny.
And it [F#] don't make no difference what [Bm] color you might be if [B] you're broke.
_ Poverty is slavery. _
[Em] That's all it [A] is, y'all.
Poverty [Bm] is slavery.
But we're lucky [B] we've got a government that's a hold the people, bother people, buy the people, steal the people, hire the people, free the people.
Get together, get together.
Get up, stand up.
_ _ _ Stand up for what's right.
Righteous minded people, get up, stand up.
Don't give it up, don't give it up.
Don't [E] give [Bm] up the fight.
I said, I said, get up, stand up.
Stand _ _ _ up for what's right.
Righteous minded people, get up, stand up.
_ _ _ Don't give up the fight.
[A] Yeah.
_ [Bm] _ [E] Let _
_ [B] _ _ my people go. _
Let _ _ my [F#m] _ _
_ _ [A] people _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] go. _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [Bm] _ _ Go. _ _
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Peace. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _