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Transcribed from the live recording made two days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. INTRO: a quick strike of B7b5, and then a long flutter of Bb13sus4 and B7 What's gonna happen now? In all of our cities? My people are rising; they're living in lies. Even if they have to die Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is Even at that one moment that ya know what life is If you have to die, it's all right Cause you know what life is You know what freedom is for one moment of your life
BbBut he had seen the mountaintop And he kEbnew heFm7 could noEbt stop AbAlways living with the tF7hreat of death aBb7head EbFolks you'd better sG7top and think AbEverybody knows we're on the F7brinFm7k EbWhat will hCm7appen, Fm7now that the KBb7ing is deaEbd? Fm7 Eb
EbWe can all shed teCm7ars; it wF7on't change a tBb7hing EbTeach your people: G7Will they ever learn? AbMust you always kill with F7burn andFm7 burn with guns EbAnd kill with gCm7uns and buF7sus4rn - don't you knBb7ow how we gotta Ebreact?
BbBut he had seen the mountaintop And he kEbnew heFm7 could noEbt stop AbAlways living with the tF7hreat of death aBb7head EbFolks you'd better sG7top and think AbEverybody knows we're on the F7brinFm7k EbWhat will happen, now that the F7sus4King is dEmead? Fm7 Em