N.C.
Mason Jennings Freedom
N.C.
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N.C.
Verses just bass playing E
[Verse 1]
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In a market place in old Bombay
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The Dalai Lama shot Cassius Clay
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I wonder what it is your looking for
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And Tony Morrison and Malcolm X
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Taught from the trees by their broken necks
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I wonder what it is your looking for
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And Charlie Parker and Kerouac
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Looked into the light until their eyes went black
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I wonder what it is your looking for
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Aristotle said to Socrates
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Even love wants victory
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I wonder what it is your looking for
N.C.
Verses All on E chord
[Verse 2]
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Last night I had the same old dream
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I was running through fields of green
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Being chased by a little boy with a gun
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I turned around and I saw his face
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A shot was fired and the dream erased
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I woke up burning on a funeral pyre
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Standing over me was my only son
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Swinging down his hammer 'til his work was done
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Turning this body to bones, and these bones to dust
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And takin' that dust to an old bird's nest
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Out into the water up to his chest
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And sinking that birds nest down in a river bed
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And I took the river out to the see
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Until the storm clouds called for me
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And fell like rain on the soft souther soil
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And up from the bottom on the first downbeat
E
Up through the congregations feet
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Up like wind that shakes the leaves from the tree
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Up through the fingers of the gospel singers
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Up through the songs where the dead live on
E
Up, up, up
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What did you lose, my friend
E6 E
What did you lose, my friend
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