{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2366221,"song":"Old Abe Lincoln","artist":"Earl Robinson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11489258-old-abe-lincoln-chords-by-earl-robinson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2366221?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow old Abe Lincoln,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA great big giant of a man was he[/tab]\r\n\r\nYes, sir.\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe was born in an old log cabin,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he worked for a living,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSplitting rails.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow Abe he knew right from wrong,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nFor he was honest as the day is long,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd these are the words he said.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its institutions,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]G#[/ch]           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBelongs to the people who inhabit it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its Constitution,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBelongs to us who live in it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhenever they shall grow weary[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf the existing government[/tab]\r\n\r\nThey can exercise their constitutional right\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOf amending it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOr their revolutionary right[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo dismember or overthrow it![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh Abe once ran[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA little country store in Salemtown,[/tab]\r\n\r\nIllinois.\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd a woman she paid him six pence[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMore than she ought to have done,[/tab]\r\n\r\nA mistake.\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo off through the storm old Abe went,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]B[/ch]\r\nHe paid that woman back every cemt,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor Abe was an honest man.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow Abe was close to the ground,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh he towered up six foot four[/tab]\r\n\r\nBare feet.\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd his heart was as big as a whole[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCountry, with room for more[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLike folks, too.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe never forgot from whence he came,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThough he landed in the White House and got great fame,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor he was a working man.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its institutions,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]G#[/ch]           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBelongs to the people who inhabit it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its Constitution,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBelongs to us who live in it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhenever they shall grow weary[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf the existing government[/tab]\r\n\r\nThey can exercise their constitutional right\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOf amending it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOr their revolutionary right[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo dismember or overthrow it![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow old Abe's eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWere set way back deep in his head,[/tab]\r\n\r\nA thinking man.\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut you didn't need learning to understand[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhat old Abe said[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]\r\nListen to this.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThis republic will never be free[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTill a black man's out of slavery[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd that made the Civil War.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow sometimes Abe[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe wavered and shook like a great tall tree,[/tab]\r\n\r\nThat's true.\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor he wanted peace between the states[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn this country,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]\r\nLike the Bible said.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut Abe never crawled when the showdown came,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLike some people now who take his name,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]B[/ch]\r\nHe beat those slavemen down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow old Abe Lincoln's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDead and gone these eighty years,[/tab]\r\n\r\nA great man.\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut every year the party he made[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSays Lincoln's theirs,[/tab]\r\n\r\nNo, sir.\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor if old Abe were living right now,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTo the man and at the bench, and the man at the plow,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThese are the words he'd say.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its institutions,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]G#[/ch]           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBelongs to the people who inhabit it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThis country, with its Constitution,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBelongs to us who live in it.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhenever they shall grow weary[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf the existing government[/tab]\r\n\r\nThey can exercise their constitutional right\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nOf amending it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOr their revolutionary right[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo dismember or overthrow it![/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nEm\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\nYes, sir.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey can exercise their constitutional right\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\nIllinois.\n\n\n\nA mistake.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBare feet.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey can exercise their constitutional right\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\nA thinking man.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat's true.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA great man.\n\n\n\nNo, sir.\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey can exercise their constitutional 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