Chords for The Staple Singers- "I'll Take You There/We The People" Live 1972 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Many [C] unequal situations in the world have changed [G#] for the better over the past [F] few years.
However, [C] today there are many political, [F] social, and economical _ [C] discriminations.
And because they are so much a part of the black experience,
[Am] they are reflected in the music of a people who look for a [C] better day. _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Oh, oh, oh. _ _ _ _ _
[D] I know a place
[C] _ [G] Where [A] there ain't nobody [C] crying
_ [F] No, ain't nobody [C] worried
_ [G] No, ain't no [C] smiling faces
Uh [F]-uh, no, [Cm] no
Lying to the [C] races
No, [F]
no, [C] no, no
Help me, come on, come on
Come on and help me now
I'll take you there
Yeah, [Cm] yeah, yeah
Help [C] me y'all
I'll take you [Cm] there
Oh, [C] help me now
I'll [F] take you there
[C] Oh, _ help me
I'll take you there
Oh, oh, mercy
I'll take you [G] there
[F] Oh, let me take you there
I'll take you there
Oh, _ [C] let me take you [F] there
I'll take you there
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Am] Oh, play on, play on Yeah, yeah
All [Dm] right
_ _ _ [C] Boy, _ [F]
do it, do it
Come on now
[F]
Play on it, play on it
[C] Help me, come on, come on _
Yeah, _ yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, [C] yeah
Help _
[A] _ me now
I'll take [C] you there
Oh, help [F] me now
Somebody do [Em] it for me
Oh, [Am] let me [F] take you there
_ Oh, [C] help me now
I'll [F] take you there
Oh, [C] let me take you there All right
Dum, _ _ dum, dum
[C] Let me take you there
[F] What you doing sucking [Cm] so?
Oh, oh, _
[F] _ oh
[C] No, I'm playing
I'll [F] take you there
[Cm] _ _ [C] I'll _ take you there
Oh, oh, oh
_ _ I'll [F] take you there
[D#] _ _ [C] _ _ I'll [F] take you there
I'll take you there
I'll take [C] you there
I'll [F] take you there
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
I'll take [F] _ _ _ [C] you _ _
[F] there
_ _ [C] _ I'll take you there
_ I'll take you there _
[F] I'll take you there
I'll take [C] you there
I'll [F] take you there
I'll take you there
I'll take you there
[C] I'll take you there
I'll take you there
_ I'll take you there
I'll [F] take you there
Let _ _ [C] me show you
How [F] to get there
[G] _ Let [A] me show you
[C] _
_ [F] _ How to [Cm] do it
Let me show [F] you
_ _ [A] Ain't no smiling faces
[F] Up in the hill
[C] Flying to the right _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Cm] Let me show you
[N]
Be _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] the [C#] people
[F#] Say y'all
[F#] Got to make the world go round
Got to make the [C#] world laugh
Be the people
_ Say y'all
Got to make the world go round
Got to make the world [C#] laugh
[F#] You may have the black blood
_ You [F#] may [C#] have the white blood
_ But we all are
Living [F#] on the [C#] floor [F#] Don't [C#] nobody
Slipping [F#] through the [C#] mud
But be the people [F#] Come back We all
[C#] Got to [F#] make the world [A#m] go round
Got to make the world [C#] laugh [F#] We all
[C#] _ [A#m] Dance
We got [F#] to make the world [A#m] go round
Got to make the world laugh Fancy neck
[G#] _ Fancy dress
_ [F#] _ Everybody sweat
[G#] But you give us what you get
[D#m] Hot dance and style
[G#] Don't let our world go vile
[D#m] _ Mama's youngest child
[G#] Got to learn his class
_ [F#] Got to get up
[G#] Soon as you lay down
[D#m] Don't get nothing [G#] from Getting around
_ [C#] _ Be the people
_ [F#] Say y'all
Got to make the world go round
Got to make the world laugh
You and me Yes Oh I
Got [C#m] to [F#] make the world go [C#] round
Got to [F#] make the world [A] laugh _ _ _
[E] _ _ Yeah
[F#] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [F#] Be the [C#] people
You tell them
Got to [F#] make the world [C#m] go round
Got to [F#] make the world [C#] laugh
[F#] Be the [C#] people
[F#] Dance
We got to make the world [C#] go round
Got [F#] to make the world laugh Fancy neck
[G#] _ _ Fancy dress [F#] Everybody sweat
[G#] But you give us what you get
[D#m] Hot dance and style
Hot dance and [G#] style
Don't let our world go [D#m] vile
Mama's youngest [G#] child
Got to learn his class
[C#] _ Got to get up
Soon as you lay down [F#] Getting around
[C#] Be the people
Got to [F#] make the world go round
Got to make the world laugh
You and me
[C#] Got [F#] _ _ to [C#] make the world go round
Got to make the world [C#m] laugh
[F#] Be the [C#] people Yeah
[F#] _ _ [A] _ [F#] Be the [C#] people
Got to make the world [A#m] laugh Yeah _ _
[C#] Everywhere [F#] you go
[C#] Ain't nobody [F#] get away
[C#] It's the game we [F#] got to play
You [C#] see y'all
[F#] Be the people
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[C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
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