Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
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Verse
Brother to brother
Now we must join our hearts and hands
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yeah yeah
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Yeah if we love one another
we hold key to the promised land
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yeah
Chorus
voice as intro )
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Think of all that we've been through
The shucks and jives and royal blues
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Let us pray our time will co-o-o-me
When this world will live as one
Brother to brother
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Now dont let the devil get you down
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Ooooh
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Cause its bread and its butter
That makes this whole damn world
Go round and round
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yeah
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Do you know where we went wrong
Tell me why the lines are drawn
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And let us break our boundries down
And live our lives on com mon ground
Piano solo
over -
alternating bass
over - alternating bass
over - alternating bass
piano:
Guitar: ( slowly and majestically )
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Guitar solo
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instrumental alternate between Bm11 Cmaj9/6
bass solo on Bm7
continue again with alternating Bm11 Cmaj9/6
...( with background vocal 'ahh's ending on:
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Oh, mothers and fathers
Where will tomorrows children be?
Oh, brother, my brother
Let us live our lives in peace
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yeah yeah yeah
End with alternating Bm11 - Cmaj9/6 over guitar and vocals