Yorktown The World Turned Upside Down (Clean Version) Chords

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The Battle of Yorktown, _ [C] _ _ [G] _
1781.
[Dm] Monsieur Hamilton.
Monsieur [C] Lafayette.
In [G] command where you belong.
Are you saying no [Dm] sweat?
We're finally on the field, we've had quite [G] a run.
Immigrants.
We [Dm] get the job done.
So what happens if we win?
I go [C] back to [G] France.
I bring freedom to my people if I'm given the [Dm] chance.
We'll be with you when you do.
[C] Go, lead your [G] men.
See you on the other side.
Can we lead the [D] egg?
No, no, no, [F] no, no, no.
I'm not [G] _ _
[Am] _ [C] [D] shocked.
Hey, you want us?
Let the [F] country and guns [G] grab you.
You're not going to be in [Am] Iraq.
I'm [C] not [Dm] shocked.
I am not going to [F] be in Iraq.
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[A] The world turns [C] upside [D] down.
[F] The world turns [G] upside down.
I [Dm] am not going to shoot so much as it is.
More like the [C] memory.
It's [G] sure to get to me.
On my feet, the enemy ahead of [Dm] me.
This is the end of me.
At least I [C] have a friend with [G] me.
I'm in command, I'm in with [Dm] me.
Then I remember my allies [G] is expecting me.
I believe that my allies [Dm] is expecting.
We got to go, [G] got to get the job done.
Got to start a new nation, got to meet [C] my son.
[Dm] We can pull the [F] jam, jump on.
We can pull the jam, [G] jump on.
[A] We move undercover and [Cm] we move [D] as one.
Through the night, we have [F] one shot to live another [G] day.
We [A] cannot let a stray gun [C] shot keep us [D] awake.
We will fight up [F] close.
Seize [G] the moment, it's staying in it.
[C] It's either that or meet the business end of a [D] begging it.
[F] The code word is go, shambo.
Dig me?
Go, shambo.
You have your [G] orders now.
Go, men, [Dm] go.
So the American [C] experiment [G] begins.
With my friends all scattered to the winds.
[Dm] Lawrence is in South Carolina.
[C] We define a [G] bravery.
We'll never be free until we end [Dm] slavery.
When we finally drive the [C] British away,
[G] Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake [Dm] Bay.
How did we know that this [C] plan would work?
[G] We had a [Dm] spy on the inside.
That's right.
Hercules, [G] follow me.
I tell a spy, no, the British [Am] government
is taking measurement information, [Dm] and then I smuggle it
to my [F] brother's [G] revolutionary [A] covenant.
I'm under with the sons [C] of liberty, [D] and I am loving it.
See, that's what [F] happens when you up [G] against the [A] MPN.
[G] Being an African body's got [F] a charm.
Hercules, follow me.
I need an international.
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_ [G] _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ [E] [D] After a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat
stands on a parapet.
We lower our guns as he frantically
holds [Bm] down our green guns.
_ [Dm] Just like that, it's over.
We tend [Gm] to our wounded.
We count [Dm] our dead.
Black and white soldiers wonder alike
[Em] if this really [Dm] means freedom.
Not yet.
We negotiate the terms of surrender.
[C] [G] I see George Washington [Dm] smile.
We escort the men out of [Bb] Yorktown.
They sag a home [C] single [Dm] file.
Tens of thousands of people flood [Bb] the streets.
There are screams and church bells ringing.
[Dm] And as our [Eb] fallen foes retreat, [A] I hear the drinking song.
[F] They're singing.
[B] The world [C] turned upside [G] down.
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[G] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _
_ [G] _ [D] Now he can't be the fucking king.
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_ [G] [D] George, you and me, we gotta [F] meet my son. _ _
We won.
We won.
We won.
We won.
We won.
The world turned [G] upside _ _ _ _ down. [D] Yeah.
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