Intro X4
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Intro chords: A#5 A#/D D#5
VERSE
A#5 A#/D D#5
In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
A#5
Scrawled in spite across the envelope
A#/D D#5
With all of our conviction.
A#5
In only took a few hours for his peers
A#/D D#5
To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
A#5 A#/D D#5
B wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
CHORUS
F5 D#5 A#5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce.”
N/D
Murdered by the capitalist,
A#/D D#5
November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
A#5 A#/D D#5
Who is wrong and who is righteous?
A#5
What was stolen from us we will replace,
A#/D D#5
Off with the head on the body we feast,
A#5
Who is wrong and who is righteous,
A#/D - one strum
Will never be our own decision.
INTRO X4
VERSE
A#5 A#/D D#5
He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
A#5 A#/D D#5
Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
CHORUS
F5 D#5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
F5 D#5
And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
F5 D#5
Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again”.
BRIDGE
A#5 C5 D5 D#5 x4
A#5 C5
If the workers take a notion,
D5 D#5
They can stop all speeding trains,
A#5 C5
Every ship upon the ocean.
D5 D#5
They can tie with mighty chains
A#5 C5
Every wheel in the creation,
D5 D#5
Every mine and every mill.
A#5 C5
Fleets and armies of all nations
D5 D#5 - one strum
Will at our command stand (pause) still.