Judy Collins – Democracy (Guitar)

                      C           G
It's coming through a hole in the air

                     D         G
From those nights in Tiananmen Square

     C
It's coming from the feel

          F             C
That this ain't exactly real

        G            D             G
Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there

         B
From the wars against disorder

         Em
From the sirens night and day

         B
From the fires of the homeless

         Em
From the ashes of the gay

  D                C           G
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

                      C            G
It's coming through a crack in the wall

               D        G
On a visionary flood of alcohol

         C
From the staggering account

       F             C
Of the Sermon on the Mount

        G                D             G
Which I don't pretend to understand at all

     B
It's coming from the silence

       Em
On the dock of the bay

         B
From the brave, the bold, the battered

         Em
Heart of Chevrolet

  D                C           G
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

                     C             G
It's coming from the sorrow in the street

                D               G
The holy places where the races meet

         C
From the homicidal bitching

          F             C
That goes down in every kitchen

     G                D                  G
To determine who will serve and who will eat

         B
From the wells of disappointment

          Em
Where the women kneel to pray

        B
For the grace of god in the desert here

        Em
And the desert far away

  D                C           G
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

     D        C
Sail on, sail on

   G
Oh mighty Ship of State

       D
To the Shores of Need

         C
Past the Reefs of Greed

            G
Through the Squalls of Hate

     Am       D        C        G
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on

                C      G
It's coming to America first

                  D               G
The cradle of the best and of the worst

     C
It's here they got the range

          F           C
And the machinery for change

         G                 D         G
And it's here they got the spiritual thirst

     B
It's here the family's broken

         Em
And it's here the lonely say

         B
That the heart has got to open

     Em
In a fundamental way

  D                C           G
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

                     C             G
It's coming from the women and the men

                  D            G
Oh baby, we'll be making love again

         C
We'll be going down so deep

    F                C
The river's going to weep

        G                   D        G
And the mountain's going to shout, "Amen!"

     B
It's coming like the tidal flood

  Em
Beneath the lunar sway

  B
Imperial, mysterious

   Em
In amorous array

  D                C           G
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

     D       C
Sail on, sail on

   G
Oh mighty Ship of State

       D
To the Shores of Need

         C
Past the Reefs of Greed

            G
Through the Squalls of Hate

     Am       D        C        G
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on

                        C           G
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean

                          D               G
I love the country, but I can't stand the scene

        C
And I'm neither left or right

         F              C
I'm just staying home tonight

        G            D               G
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen

        B
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags

     Em
That time cannot decay

    B
I'm junk but I'm still holding up

     Em
This little wild bouquet

  D                C           G   C   G   C
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.