Intro X4
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Intro chords: F#5 F#/A# B5
VERSE
F#5 F#/A# B5
In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
F#5
Scrawled in spite across the envelope
F#/A# B5
With all of our conviction.
F#5
In only took a few hours for his peers
F#/A# B5
To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
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G wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
CHORUS
C#5 B5 F#5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce.”
N/A#
Murdered by the capitalist,
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November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
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Who is wrong and who is righteous?
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What was stolen from us we will replace,
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Off with the head on the body we feast,
F#5
Who is wrong and who is righteous,
F#/A# - one strum
Will never be our own decision.
INTRO X4
VERSE
F#5 F#/A# B5
He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
F#5 F#/A# B5
Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
CHORUS
C#5 B5
“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
C#5 B5
And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
C#5 B5
Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again”.
BRIDGE
F#5 G#5 A#5 B5 x4
F#5 G#5
If the workers take a notion,
A#5 B5
They can stop all speeding trains,
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Every ship upon the ocean.
A#5 B5
They can tie with mighty chains
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Every wheel in the creation,
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Every mine and every mill.
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Fleets and armies of all nations
A#5 B5 - one strum
Will at our command stand (pause) still.