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Tempo 80 BPMVol

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Mason Jennings Freedom 
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B|--0-2-2h4----2--4/7-4h7-7/9---|--12-9h12p9-7-4----7-9----2-2------------------|
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Verses just bass playing E
[Verse 1]
EIn a market place in old Bombay
EThe Dalai Lama shot Cassius Clay
EI wonder what it is your looking for
EAnd Tony Morrison and Malcolm X
ETaught from the trees by their broken necks
EI wonder what it is your looking for
EAnd Charlie Parker and Kerouac
ELooked into the light until their eyes went black
EI wonder what it is your looking for
EAristotle said to Socrates
EEven love wants victory
EI wonder what it is your looking for
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Verses All on E chord
[Verse 2]
ELast night I had the same old dream
EI was running through fields of green
EBeing chased by a little boy with a gun
EI turned around and I saw his face
EA shot was fired and the dream erased
EI woke up burning on a funeral pyre
EStanding over me was my only son
ESwinging down his hammer 'til his work was done
ETurning this body to bones, and these bones to dust
EAnd takin' that dust to an old bird's nest
EOut into the water up to his chest
EAnd sinking that birds nest down in a river bed
EAnd I took the river out to the see
EUntil the storm clouds called for me
EAnd fell like rain on the soft souther soil
EAnd up from the bottom on the first downbeat
EUp through the congregations feet
EUp like wind that shakes the leaves from the tree
EUp through the fingers of the gospel singers
EUp through the songs where the dead live on
EUp, up, up
What Edid yE6ou lose, my friend
What E6did yEou lose, my friend

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Freedom

by Mason Jennings

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Mason Jennings Freedom

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tune half step down

e|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

B|--0-2-2h4----2--4/7-4h7-7/9---|--12-9h12p9-7-4----7-9----2-2------------------|

G|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

D|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

A|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

E|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|

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Verses just bass playing E

[Verse 1]

In a market place in old Bombay

The Dalai Lama shot Cassius Clay

I wonder what it is your looking for

And Tony Morrison and Malcolm X

Taught from the trees by their broken necks

I wonder what it is your looking for

And Charlie Parker and Kerouac

Looked into the light until their eyes went black

I wonder what it is your looking for

Aristotle said to Socrates

Even love wants victory

I wonder what it is your looking for

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Verses All on E chord

[Verse 2]

Last night I had the same old dream

I was running through fields of green

Being chased by a little boy with a gun

I turned around and I saw his face

A shot was fired and the dream erased

I woke up burning on a funeral pyre

Standing over me was my only son

Swinging down his hammer 'til his work was done

Turning this body to bones, and these bones to dust

And takin' that dust to an old bird's nest

Out into the water up to his chest

And sinking that birds nest down in a river bed

And I took the river out to the see

Until the storm clouds called for me

And fell like rain on the soft souther soil

And up from the bottom on the first downbeat

Up through the congregations feet

Up like wind that shakes the leaves from the tree

Up through the fingers of the gospel singers

Up through the songs where the dead live on

Up, up, up

E E6

What did you lose, my friend

E6 E

What did you lose, my friend

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