Common People Chords

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Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd
 
Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
6-20-97
 
These chords are easy, so I'm not gonna' write them down.  You can use
power or open chords.  They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).
 
Chorus:
 
C                       G
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man
 
Am                                    F
Let's find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand
 
C                       G
We are a common people, living in a common life
 
Am                                      F
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines
 
Am      G             F
Common people you and I
 
Am      G             F
Common people you and I
 
C
I see a blind man on the street
 
G
He doesn't know what I look like
 
Am
So he can't judge the man I am
 
F
Except by what he sees inside
 
C
I see a child on the street
 
G
He doesn't know the mistakes I've made
 
Am
I know he takes me where I am
 
F
He sees a friend not a crusade
 
 
Chorus.
 
 
C
I see a brother on the other side
 
G
of my crusade, my holy fight
 
Am
I think I know where I went wrong
 
F
when I gave up love to be proved right
 
C
I saw a man die on a cross
 
G
He forgot the mistakes I've made
 
Am
He died for me the way I was
 
F
and He wants me to love the same
 
 
Chorus.
 
 
         Dm
Can't we tear the fences down?
 
         Am
Can't we rip the labels off?
 
        F
Can we share the common ground
 
           C               G
instead of judging what is not?
 
        Dm
Can't we love instead of hate?
 
        Am
Can't we trust instead of fear?
 
            F
Can we stop fighting for a moment
 
    C               G
and feel our common fear?
 
Am                     G
Is it us against them, wrong against right,
 
F
black against white, my kind your kind?
 
Am                            G
There comes a time to put the argument down
 
           F
and have a party on the common ground!
 
 
Chorus.
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