Chords for WAKE UP EVERYBODY - Original Version (Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes)

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_ [G#m] _ _ [D#m] the world.
Wake up, [G#m] everybody.
No more [D#m] sleeping in [G#m] bed.
[D#m] No more back [G#m] to thinking.
Time [B] for thinking ahead.
[D#m] The world has [G#m] changed so very much.
[D#m] of what it used to [G#m] be.
[D#m] There's so [G#m] much hatred, [B] war, and poverty. _ _ _ _
_ [D#m] Oh.
_ _ _ [B] _ [G#m] _
_ _ [D#m] _ [G#m] All teachers, [D#m] time to teach a [G#m] new way.
[D#m] Maybe then [G#m] they'll listen to what you [B] have to say.
[D#m] They're the [G#m] ones who's coming [D#m] up,
and the world is [G#m] in their [D#m] hands.
When you teach the [G#m] children,
you're doing [B] the very best you can. _ _ _ _ _
[C#] The world _ [A#m] _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#m]
won't care if [C#] we just let [F#] it be.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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[C#] The world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better.
[B] We gotta change it now, just [F#] you and me.
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_ [B] _ _ [D#m] Wake up [G#m] all doctors, [D#m] make the old [G#m] people well.
[D#m] They're the [G#m] ones who suffer and who catch all the hair.
[D#m] They don't [G#m] have so very long [D#m] before [G#m] their judgment day.
[D#m] But won't you make [G#m] them happy [B] before they pass away?
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[D#m] Wake up [G#m] all the builders, [D#m] time to build a [G#m] new land.
[D#m] I know [G#m] we could do it if we [B] all lend a hand.
[D#m] The only [G#m] thing we have to [D#m] do is put it in our [G#m]
[D#m] minds.
Surely things will [G#m] work out, [B] they do it every time.
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] The world won't [A#m] get no [D#] better _ [G#m] if [C#] we just [F#] let it be.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
[B] _ [C#] The world [A#m] won't get no [D#] better.
[G#m] We gotta change it now, just [F#] you and _ [B] me.
[F#] Nah, [B] nah, nah, nah, [F#] _ _ [B] nah.
[F#] Change it, [B] change it, [F#] just you and me.
[B] _ [F#] Change [B] it, change it, [F#] can't do it alone.
_ [B] [F#] Need some help, [B] y'all.
[F#] Can't do it alone, [B] can't do it alone.
[F#] Nah, _ [B]
nah, nah, [G#m] nah, [F#] nah.
Wake up, [B] [F#] everybody. _ _
_ Wake up, [B] [F#] everybody.
_ [B] _
[F#] Need a little help, [B] y'all.
_ [F#] Need a little help, need some [B] help, y'all.
[F#] Change the world, _ what it used to [B] be.
[F#] _ _ [B]
Can't [F#] do it alone, can't [B] do it alone.
[F#] Need some help, [B]
y'all.
[F#] Wake up now, [B] _ [F#] _ _ [B] _
_ [F#] get up, [B] _ _ [F#] get up.
[B] _
[D#m] _ [F#] _ [B] Wake up, _ [F#] come on, [B] come [F#] on.
Wake up, everybody.
_ Teach a [B] new way.
[F#] _ Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say.
Wake up, [B] everybody.
[F#] No more [B] sleeping in bed.
[F#] No more thinking, thinking, thinking.
[B]
Come on [F#] now, _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _
[F#] wake up, [B] _ [F#] everybody.
_ [B] _
[F#] I'm talking [B] about don't push out.
[F#] Stop pushing [B] that don't push [F#] out.
Don't use [B] us.
[D#m] _ [F#] Stop using [B] the don't.
[F#] Wake up.
[B] Yeah.
[F#] _ _ [B] _
[G#m] Well, [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] I [F#] wonder what you tell me [B] now.
I wonder what you tell [F#] me now.
_ [B] _
_ [F#] False liar.
[B] _ _ [F#] False [B] preacher.
_ [F#] False [B] teacher.
[F#] Wake up, [B] y'all.
Come [F#] on.
_ _ _ You [B]
preachers.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] Start preaching what [B] you teach.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] Teach the truth.
_ [B] _
_ [F#] Wake up, preachers.
_ _ [B] _
_ [F#] False [B] liar.
False [F#] liar.
_ [B] _
_ [F#] _ Politicians.
_ _ _ [B]
Stop [F#] _ [B] lying.
[F#] Stop lying.
[B] _
_ [F#] False preacher.
[B] _ _ [F#] _ [B] False teacher.
[F#] False _ [B] preacher.
[F#] False teacher.
[B] _
_ [F#] False [B] preacher.
[F#] _ _ [B] _
[F#] False preacher.
[B] Why don't [F#] somebody help the poor people?
[B] _ [F#] Well, [B] you [F#] have to be glad, [B] man.
You have [F#] to be glad.
[B] Help me.
[F#] You businessmen. _
_ Stop cheating.
[B] Stop cheating.
[F#] Stop cheating.
[B] _
[F#] _ _ [B] Wake _ [F#] up, yeah.
[B] Wake up, yeah.
[F#] Wake up, yeah.
[B] _ _ [F#] _ Yeah.
_ It [B] don't matter.
_ [F#] _ _ [B] _
[F#] What race, [B] _ [F#] creed, [B] or color.
[F#] _
_ Everybody.
[A#] We [F#] need [B] each other.
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [B] _
_ _ [F#] _ See? _ _
[B] We need.
[F#] Wake up. _ _ _ _ _
No _ _ [B] [F#] more sleeping [B] in bed.
[C#] No more backward [G#m] thinking.
[F#] Time for thinking [B] ahead.
[F#] Wake [A#m] up, [B] teachers.
Start [F#] teaching the [B] way.
_ [F#] They're the ones [B] that suffer.
_ [F#] Preaching every [B] day.
[F#] Teach the children.
Wake up, teachers.
Teach the [B] babies.
[G#m] Children.
[F#] _ Teach the babies.
Children.
[B] _
[F#] They're the ones that suffer.
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