Chords for The Rascals -- "People Got To Be Free" (with an intro from Felix Cavaliere)

[N] _ _ _ _ _ And then the [Dbm] war came home.
[F] You know, _ we were one of the first Italian families in our neighborhood [Eb] in Pelham.
I saw how [D] my mother was treated at a very early age, and I didn't like it.
[Gb] [Ab] It made me fight prejudice my whole life.
_ [D] From there, I just fell into [B] the Civil Rights Movement, and the rascals were all [Ab] together on this stuff.
We [B] didn't have a Civil Rights Act until 1964.
[Eb] The right to vote for all [C] wasn't official until 1965.
[Eb] _
[Gb] And you couldn't live where you wanted until 1968. _
Discrimination of any kind [B] wasn't acceptable to the rascals.
[D]
We insisted [B] on including as [Gb] many black acts as possible [A] as openers on [D] any bill we [Eb] had on it.
[Gb] And then all our [Eb] feelings came spilling out in one single song.
_ We _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ can see _ [Bb]
people [F] everywhere just wondering. _
They said, please, they said that's the way it should be.
[Bb]
These are [F] not bad people, gonna be free. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
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You [C] see, _ what [Dm] a lovely, lovely world it would [Am] be.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] Everyone would learn to live [Bb] together. _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ Seems [C] to me, it's [Dm] so easy.
Why can't [Am] it be?
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Why [F] can't you and me learn to love one another? _ _
[Dm] _ [Bb] Oh, yeah.
_ [F] I know it's so easy to see [Bb] that people [F] everywhere just _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
simple-footed.
Why, yes it is.
[Bb] People [F] everywhere just
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Oh. _
_ _ [F] _ If there is a [C] man _ who is [Dm] down and need a [Am] helping hand, _
I'm gonna [Bb] teach you to _ [F] understand you can see it [Bb] through.
_ _ [Dm] Believe me when I tell you [F] that I _ see [C] to me that _ [Dm] _ _ you will lead.
[Am] _ _
_ [Bb] _ I'll [F] do unto you what you do to me.
_ I've [Dm] let it all go.
[Bb] There'll be time and [F] _ blood out there to see.
Out to [Bb] the sea.
Don't you [F] worry about it.
[C] People got to [F] be free.
[Bb] Ask me [F] my opinion.
My opinion [Dm] will be.
The [F] actual situation for us to be free.
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_ _ _ [C] Get right on [Fm] on now.
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[F] No one's business is just a problem.
_ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ Believe I [Bb] can say.
[F] Everybody's got _ _ a goal.
There will [Bb] be peace in [F] the world.
And now we all can be free.
Right now.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ Ah, [F] yeah.
_ [Bb] _
_ _ See that train over [F] there? _ _
[Fm] Why, that's the train of freedom.
[F] Oh, yeah. _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Oh, [Cm] it's been long overdue.
[Fm] _ Coming right on through.
[F] Close. _ _ _ _
_ Closer. _ _ _ _ _
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