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Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd

Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
6-20-97

These chords are easy, so I'm not gonna' write them down.  You can use
power or open chords.  They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).

Chorus:

C (x32010@1)                     GWe (320003@1)are a common people, each of us a fallen man

Am (x02210@1)                                  FLet's (133211@1)find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand

C (x32010@1)                     GWe (320003@1)are a common people, living in a common life

Am (x02210@1)                                    FThere (133211@1)are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines

Am (x02210@1)    G (320003@1)           FCommon (133211@1)people you and I

Am (x02210@1)    G (320003@1)           FCommon (133211@1)people you and I

CI (x32010@1)see a blind man on the street

GHe (320003@1)doesn't know what I look like

AmSo (x02210@1)he can't judge the man I am

FExcept (133211@1)by what he sees inside

CI (x32010@1)see a child on the street

GHe (320003@1)doesn't know the mistakes I've made

AmI (x02210@1)know he takes me where I am

FHe (133211@1)sees a friend not a crusade


Chorus.


CI (x32010@1)see a brother on the other side

Gof (320003@1)my crusade, my holy fight

AmI (x02210@1)think I know where I went wrong

Fwhen (133211@1)I gave up love to be proved right

CI (x32010@1)saw a man die on a cross

GHe (320003@1)forgot the mistakes I've made

AmHe (x02210@1)died for me the way I was

Fand (133211@1)He wants me to love the same


Chorus.


         DmCan't (xx0231@1)we tear the fences down?

         AmCan't (x02210@1)we rip the labels off?

        FCan (133211@1)we share the common ground

           C (x32010@1)             Ginstead (320003@1)of judging what is not?

        DmCan't (xx0231@1)we love instead of hate?

        AmCan't (x02210@1)we trust instead of fear?

            FCan (133211@1)we stop fighting for a moment

    C (x32010@1)             Gand (320003@1)feel our common fear?

Am (x02210@1)                   GIs (320003@1)it us against them, wrong against right,

Fblack (133211@1)against white, my kind your kind?

Am (x02210@1)                          GThere (320003@1)comes a time to put the argument down

           Fand (133211@1)have a party on the common ground!


Chorus.