Artist: Johnny Cash
Song: Redemption Day
Album: American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave
***CAPO 1***
[Intro]
Am
[Verse]
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I've wept for those who suffer long
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But how I weep for those who've gone
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In rooms of grief and questioned wrong
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But keep on killing
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It's in the soul to feel such things
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But weak to watch without speaking
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Oh, what mercy sadness brings
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If God be willing
[Chorus]
Am C
There is a train that's heading straight
C Am F C
To Heaven's gate, to Heaven's gate
C
And on the way child and man
C Am F D
And woman wait, watch and wait
D Am
For redemption day
[Verse]
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Fire rages in the streets
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And swallows everything it meets
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It's just an image often seen
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On television
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Come leaders, come ye men of great
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Let us hear you pontificate
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Your many virtues laid to waste
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And we aren't listening
[Chorus]
Am C
There is a train that's heading straight
C Am F C
To Heaven's gate, to Heaven's gate
C
And on the way child and man
C Am F D
And woman wait, watch and wait
D Am
For redemption day
[Bridge]
D C F
What do you have for us today
D C Am
Throw us a bone but save the plate
D C F
On why we waited till so late
F D
Was there no oil to excavate
D F
No riches in trade for the fate
F D
Of every person who died in hate
D Am
Throw us a bone, you men of great
[Chorus]
Am C
There is a train that's heading straight
C Am F C
To Heaven's gate, to Heaven's gate
C
And on the way child and man
C Am F D
And woman wait, watch and wait
D Am
For redemption day
[Outro]
D C F
It's buried in the countryside
D C Am
Exploding in the shells at night
D C F
It's everywhere a baby cries
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Freedom......Freedom......Freedom