Misc Musicals – Suffs - Keep Marching (Guitar)

            Bb                         F
I won't live to see the future that I fight for

            C                       F
Maybe no one gets to reach that perfect day

       Bb            F
If the work is never over

         E                      Am
Then how do you keep marching anyway?

        F
Do you carry your banner as far as you can

C
Rewriting the world with your imperfect pen

            D
'Til the next stubborn girl picks it up in a picket line

G
Over and over again?

                     Ab                  Bb
And you join in the chorus of centuries chanting to her

      C
The path will be twisted, and risky, and slow

         F              Fm
But keep marching, keep marching

         C
Will you fail or prevail?

          C7
Well, you may never know

         F              Bb
But keep marching, keep marching

             E
'Cause your ancestors are all the proof you need

     Am                     D
That progress is possible, not guaranteed

         F                 Eb             Bb
It will only be made if we keep marching, keep

         C     Dm   C
marching on

F                       C     Dm   C   F
Keep marching on (keep marching on)

    C                              F
And remember every mother that you came from

         C                             F
Learn as much from our success as our mistakes

      C                                F
Don't forget you're merely one of many others

       E                         Am
On the journey, every generation makes

       F
We did not end injustice and neither will you

     C
But still, we made strides, so we know you can too

     D
Make peace with our incomplete power and use it for

 G
 good 'Cause there's so much to do

    C
The gains will feel small and the losses too large

     F              Fm
Keep marching, keep marching

       C                  Gm
You'll rarely agree with whoever's in charge

     F              Bb
Keep marching, keep marching

            E
'Cause your ancestors are all the proof you need

     Am                    D
That progress is possible, not guaranteed

        F                  Eb
It will only be made if we keep marching

Bb                 C    Dm      C
Keep marching on (keep marching on)

F                 C          Dm             C     G
Keep marching on (keep marching on)

         D
Yes, the world can be changed, we've done it before

        G                                 Gm
So keep marching (keep marching on), keep marching

       D                    D7
We're always behind you, so bang down the door

         G               C
And keep marching, keep marching

        F
And let history sound the alarm of how

       Bm                  E
The future demands that we fight for it now

        G                  F
It will only be ours if we keep marching

C             D
Keep marching on