Mischief Brew – Gratitude And Thanks (Guitar)

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I asked a student of higher schooling

    G              D
He said he didn’t care

       G                C
When I asked about the sixties

      G                D
They simply said long hair

        G             C
Saw a child getting programmed

          G                  D
Getting programmed when she wakes

       G             C
And I heard a raving elder

        G             D
Cursing 20 years too late

    Em      Am         C
Oh how the bastards screwed me

D      G           C       D
 Son, life’s too short to wait

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And then the students

    Bm       C
Of higher schooling

 D        G       C        D
Hid more pills inside his plate

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So I’d like to send gratitude

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 To those who had the courage

      D
To defy the mighty ranks

                 C
Send it to the students

               G
Who waved the banners

           D
Who held flowers up to the tanks

           C
And to the ones who are

       G
Still fighting

    D
Yes all my gratitude

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And all my thanks

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So as you sit baked and hammered

     G             D
So grateful to be dead

         G                 C
Saying freedom’s here to chill out

    G                 D
So sit and rest your head

           G
Think of those who fought

     C
For your right

     G                   D
The path you walk, they paved

      G                    C
And those who fought for their right

    G             D
To carry until today

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When it was they who fed the hungry,

             G            D
Stormed the pentagon for peace

          G               C
While the army rounded strangers up

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made them instant police

  G               C
They who made a union,

             G
dodged the draft,

                D
and filled the jails

       G                C
And spread a message of unity

   G                 D
Across the nation’s rails

                    Em
And said we’re destroying

     Am         C
The house that Man have built

 D           G         C       D
Kicking the doors and pulling nails

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And you have the nerve to tell me

D     G    C         D
 That everyone has failed

   G
No, you should send

C           D
 Your gratitude and thanks

G            C
 To those who had the courage

      D
To defy the mighty ranks

                 C
Send it to the students

               G
Who waved the banners

           D
Who held flowers up to the tanks

            C
And to the ones who are

       G
Still fighting

    D
Yes all my gratitude 

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And all my thanks

           C
I'd like to send out a

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Head, help, heart, and hand

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To those who had the courage

    D
To reach and rise and stand

                C
Send it to the lovers

         G
And the fighters

               D
To those who stood up and still stand

              C
Those who unchained their wrist

      G
And clenched their fist

      D
Both here and in faraway lands