Chords for Timmy Thomas ft Martin L King & Marvin Gaye ~ Why Can't We Live Together (Difficult Days Ahead)

_ _ What we need in the United States is not division, _ what we need in the United States is not hatred,
what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, _ but is love and [Bm] wisdom and
compassion toward one another.
_ Love and wisdom [C] and compassion toward [Bm] one another.
_ Love [B] and wisdom
and compassion toward one another.
_ Love and wisdom and compassion [Bm] toward one another.
If I lived in [B] _ Ireland or even Russia or any totalitarian country, [Bm] _ _ maybe I could understand
_ some of these illegal injunctions.
_ Maybe I could understand the [F#] denial of certain basic
First Amendment privileges because they haven't committed themselves to that [G] over there.
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why, [F#m] _ why can't we live together? _ _
_ [G] _ Tell me why, tell me why, [Bm] _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ because there's a hand.
_ [A] _ _ Everybody wants to live together.
[B] Why can't we live together?
_ Because there's a hand.
_ [G] _ _ No more wars, no more wars, no more _ [F#m] wars.
Just a little peace in this world. _ _
[G] No more wars, no more wars.
Everybody _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ wants to live together.
[B] Why can't we live together? _ _ _ _
[N] But somewhere I read of [B] the freedom of assembly.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of press.
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America
is the right to [G] protest.
_ _ No matter, no matter what color, _ [F#m] _ you want to steal my brother.
Difficult days ahead.
I [G] said no matter, no matter what color, _ _ _
_ [A] you want to steal my brother.
Difficult days ahead.
_ _ _ Everybody wants to live together.
[B] Why can't we live together? _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ Our water hoses [F#m] turn us around.
We aren't going to let any injunction turn us [G] around. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ Difficult days ahead.
_ [B] But it really doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the [G] mountains now. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ It's a difficult [G] day.
It's a difficult time for the United States.
It's perhaps [F#m] well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
[A] All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper.
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[E] _ _ _ _ We can do well in this country.
We will have difficult times.
We had difficult times in the past.
And we will have difficult times in the future.
It is not the end of violence.
It is not the end of lawlessness.
It is not the end of disorder.
[G] But the vast majority of white people, the vast [F#m] majority of black people in this country want to live [Bm] together.
_ Want to improve the quality of our life.
And want [F#m] justice for all human beings that abide in our land. _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ Dedicate ourselves [G] to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago. _
Detain the [F#m] savageness of man.
Make gentle for the life of this world.
_ [Bm] Let us dedicate ourselves to that.
Let's say a prayer for our country [F#m] and for our people.
Thank you very much. _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ What's going on?
[F#m] What's going _ _ _ on?
_ [G] _ _ Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why.
[F#m] _ Why can't we live together? _ _ _
_ [G] _ Tell me why, tell me why. _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ Everybody wants to live together.
[B] Why can't we live together?
_ Difficult days ahead.
[G] _ _ No more wars, no more wars, no more wars.
[F#m] _ Just a little peace in this country.
Difficult days ahead.
[G] No more wars, no more wars.
All we want, [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ everybody wants to live together.
[B] Why can't we live together? _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ Right on, right on. _ _ _
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Right on, right on. _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ Thank you.
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[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G#] You do?
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ Dedicate _ ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years _ [Bm] ago. _
_ [B] _ Make gentle for _ _ _ [E] _
the life of this world.
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You know you gotta find a way To bring some [D#] love here _ [B] today
_ _ Picket lines and [C#m] picket signs Don't punish [G#m] me with [B] brutality
Talk _ to me [E] so you can see _ _ _ _ _ _
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