Eliza Gilkyson – My Heart Aches (Guitar)

                           C            G
We marched fifty years and five hundred miles

                                 C        G
From a Mississippi bridge to the Ferguson trial

                        C       G
Stepping over bodies of other mothers’ sons

                             C   G
Singing how someday we shall overcome

G
And my heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

                           C       G
We marched fifty years and so many miles

                         C       G
With folded hands and complacent smiles

                          C     G
Condemned a generation to circumstance

                            C            G
And all we were saying was ‘give peace a chance’

G
And my heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

                           C         G
We marched fifty years and countless miles

                            C     G
Ignoring the signs with our own denials

                           C      G
Waiting for some others to take a stand

                       C             G
And hammer out justice all over this land

G
And my heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

        C                  G
For the children locked in cages

     C                G
Far away where no one sees

        C                G
For the helpless and the hopeless

        Em            C
For the homeless refugees

         G
My heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

        C                  G
For the voices who’ve been silenced

       C            G
At the mercy of our greed

        C            G
For the prisoners of conscience

          Em               C
Who speak out for those in need

         G
My heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

        C              G
For the victims of the hatred

         C                  G
They are lying there on the ground

       C                G
In the churches and the schoolyards

         Em                   C
From the shots that took them down

         G
My heart aches

C        G
My heart aches

        C                  G
For the claims made on our bodies

           C               G
And who we can and can’t embrace

        C             G
For the children of tomorrow

        Em                 C
And the world they have to face

         G
My heart aches

C        G       Em  C
My heart aches

         G        Em  C
My heart aches

         G        Em  C
My heart aches

         G        Em  C
My heart aches

         G        Em  C
My heart aches

         G
My heart aches