Chords for The Staple Singers When Will We Be Paid , 1971

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[G] _ _ _ When will we [E] be paid [C] for the work [G] we've done?
_ [G] When will we [E] be paid for the [G] work we've done?
We have won this country, it's sure, it's sure.
Our women cooked all your food and washed all your [Gm] clothes.
[C] We picked all your cotton and laid the railroad still.
[Em] Worked [G] our hands to the bone, that's your lumber mill.
I say, when will we be [C] paid for the [G] work we've done?
When will [E] we be paid [C] for the work [G] we've done?
We've fought in your war, we've handed every land
to keep this country free of women, children and men.
[C] But any time we had to fight [G] for you alone,
that's when everything _ seemed to turn out wrong.
[E] We've been beat up, all the [C] names shot down in stone.
_ [A] Every time we do right, [D]
someone said wrong.
[G] When will we be [E] paid for the work we've done?
[A] When will we be [D] paid for the [A] work we've done?
We have given our sweat and all [Am] our tears.
We've stumbled through this life, more than [A] 300 years.
Many, [D] many sufferings from a language we knew
[A] stripped of our culture.
People you know me through, tell me now,
when will we be paid [E] for the [A] work we've done?
When will we [F#] be paid for the [A] work we've done?
_ Will we ever be [D] proud [A] of my country, Philadelphia?
When will we [F#] be paid for the work we've done?
Sweet _
[A] _ land of liberty.
When will [F#] _ we be [A] paid for the work we've done?
_ [F#] Somebody tell me, [A] for the work we've done.
_ [F#] Will we ever [A] have peace and harmony?
_ _ [F#m] I wanna [D] know, [A] will we ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be friends?
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