G                  C
I asked a student of higher schooling
    G              D
He said he didnâ??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, lifeâ??s too short to wait
               Am
And then the students
    Bm       C
Of higher schooling
 D        G       C        D
Hid more pills inside his plate
  G           C           D
So Iâ??d like to send 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
             G    C G D G C G D
And all my thanks


           G             C
So as you sit baked and hammered
     G             D
So grateful to be dead
         G                 C
Saying freedomâ??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
             G                C
When it was they who fed the hungry,
             G            D
Stormed the pentagon for peace
          G               C
While the army rounded strangers up
 G                   D
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 nationâ??s rails
                    Em
And said weâ??re destroying
     Am         C
The house that Man have built
 D           G         C       D
Kicking the doors and pulling nails
    Am            Bm       C
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 
                 Am D Am D C D C D x2
And all my thanks

           C
I'd like to send out a
 D
Head, help, heart, and hand
     G                C
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

G C G D G C G D