Intro X4
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Intro chords: G5 G/B C5
VERSE
G5 G/B C5
In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
G5
Scrawled in spite across the envelope
G/B C5
With all of our conviction.
G5
In only took a few hours for his peers
G/B C5
To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
G5 G/B C5
G# wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
CHORUS
D5 C5 G5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce.”
N/B
Murdered by the capitalist,
G/B C5
November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
G5 G/B C5
Who is wrong and who is righteous?
G5
What was stolen from us we will replace,
G/B C5
Off with the head on the body we feast,
G5
Who is wrong and who is righteous,
G/B - one strum
Will never be our own decision.
INTRO X4
VERSE
G5 G/B C5
He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
G5 G/B C5
Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
CHORUS
D5 C5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
D5 C5
And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
D5 C5
Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again”.
BRIDGE
G5 A5 B5 C5 x4
G5 A5
If the workers take a notion,
B5 C5
They can stop all speeding trains,
G5 A5
Every ship upon the ocean.
B5 C5
They can tie with mighty chains
G5 A5
Every wheel in the creation,
B5 C5
Every mine and every mill.
G5 A5
Fleets and armies of all nations
B5 C5 - one strum
Will at our command stand (pause) still.