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Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd
Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
6-20-97
These chords are easy, so I`m not gonna` write them down. You can use
power or open chords. They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).
Chorus:
C G
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man
Am F
Let`s find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand
C G
We are a common people, living in a common life
Am F
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines
Am G F
Common people you and I
Am G F
Common people you and I
C
I see a blind man on the street
G
He doesn`t know what I look like
Am
So he can`t judge the man I am
F
Except by what he sees inside
C
I see a child on the street
G
He doesn`t know the mistakes I`ve made
Am
I know he takes me where I am
F
He sees a friend not a crusade
Chorus.
C
I see a brother on the other side
G
of my crusade, my holy fight
Am
I think I know where I went wrong
F
when I gave up love to be proved right
C
I saw a man die on a cross
G
He forgot the mistakes I`ve made
Am
He died for me the way I was
F
and He wants me to love the same
Chorus.
Dm
Can`t we tear the fences down?
Am
Can`t we rip the labels off?
F
Can we share the common ground
C G
instead of judging what is not?
Dm
Can`t we love instead of hate?
Am
Can`t we trust instead of fear?
F
Can we stop fighting for a moment
C G
and feel our common fear?
Am G
Is it us against them, wrong against right,
F
black against white, my kind your kind?
Am G
There comes a time to put the argument down
F
and have a party on the common ground!
Chorus.
