Based on Original version(from Peter Yarrow's very first solo album)

Intro: D(4x)

D (xx0232@1)          D/C# (x40232@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)          G (320003@1)                   DThree (xx0232@1)horses greazing out my window brown black and white they stand

G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)           A7rolling (x02020@1)pastures they can wander free and easy is their land

Chorus:

G (320003@1)        A (x02220@1)       D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)        A (x02220@1)  DDon't (xx0232@1)ever take away my freedom,don't ever take it away

G (320003@1)            G/f#     G (320003@1)           DI (xx0232@1)must cherish and keep that one part of my lives

A (x02220@1)                           A7and (x02020@1)the rest we're gonna find one of these days

Done (xx0232@1)of these days

D (xx0232@1)                 D/C# (x40232@1)         D7I've (xx0212@1)always thought that I've seen in my own lifetime

G (320003@1)                 Dan (xx0232@1)end into poverty injustice and the wars

G (320003@1)                              Dbut (xx0232@1)now I've learned to that job it's gonna take a long, long time

A (x02220@1)                  A7so (x02020@1)there's one thing that must endure

(chorus)

D (xx0232@1)          D/C# (x40232@1)                  D7When (xx0212@1)I'm old I am thinking over this whole life that I have lived

G (320003@1)                        D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)        
if there is one final wish left to me, I will pray for the children

D (xx0232@1)            A (x02220@1)                                   A7yet (x02020@1)to be born and I will pray that they will always live free

(chorus)

G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)             DThere (xx0232@1)is a time for the singing and the sunshine

G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)             DThere (xx0232@1)is a time for the thunder and the rain

G (320003@1)            G/f#             G (320003@1)             DThere's (xx0232@1)a time for the changing all the seasons my friends

A (x02220@1)                    A7but (x02020@1)there is one thing we must never ever change

(chorus)(3x)
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