Suzanne Vega – Speakers Corner (Guitar)

A
I have a newfound sympathy

           E
For the madman in the square

    G
Who rants and raves his rhetoric

D
Into the midday air

    A
His heartfelt pleas and arguments

        E
But the sense no longer there

    G
The sound ascends to heaven

           D
Like the incense in a prayer

G                      C
 The speakers' corner, there it stands

   D           Em
In politics or song

G                C
 For trying everything you feel

        D
Whether it is right or wrong

A
 The doomsday prophet

      E
Whose words have all come true

G
 The naysaying soothsayer

D
So cynical and blue

A
Has now become more like a child

  E
Bewildered and confused

    G
But I keep on believing

     D
It's what I know how to do

G                      C
 The speakers' corner, there it stands

   D            Em
In politics and song

G                  C
 When it's time to tell your tail

D
 Don't wait too long

A
All those full of wind and air

    E
Who howl and rant and rave

G
 Screaming out distorted facts

 D
About the souls they save

A
 Promising the miracles

    E
And pocketing the cash

G
Pretending they have principles

D
Preaching only ash

G                  C
 And it grieves me when I see

D           Em
People on parade

G              C
 Parroting the things they hear

      D
Never think to be afraid

G                      C
 The speakers' corner, there it stands

   D            Em
In politics and song

G                  C
 I guess we better use it now

  D
Before we find it gone

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           * = Strum once