Capo 3
[Intro]
G G/Em Em7
G
[Verse]
G/Em
Em7 G/Em
Dear Mr. President, come take a walk with me
G G/Em
Let's pretend, we're just two people and, you're not better than me
Em7
C
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
[Middle 8]
Am/C Am G
G/Em C
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Am/C Am G
G/Em C
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
Am/C Am Em7
G/Em
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Cadd9
Are you proud?
[Chorus]
G G/Em
Am Am/C C
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
G G/Em
Am Am/C C
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
G G/Em
Am/C C
How do you walk with your head held high?
Em7 G/Em2 Cadd9
Can you even look me in the eye?
G
And tell me why
[Break]
(intro chords)
G G/Em Em7
G
[Verse 2]
G/Em
Em7
Dear Mr. President Were you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy?
G/Em
Are you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy?
G G/Em
How can you say? No child is left behind. We're not dumb and we're not blind.
Em7 G/Em
C
They're all sitting in your cells While you pave the road to hell
(Middle 8)
Am/C Am G
G/Em C
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
Am/C Am
G/Em C
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
Am/C Am Em7
G/Em
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say?
Cadd9 D
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine!
[Chorus]
G G/Em
Am Am/C C
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
G G/Em
Am Am/C C
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
G G/Em
Am/C C
How do you walk with your head held high?
Em7 G/Em2 Cadd9
Can you even look me in the eye?
[Verse]
Em7 G/Em2 G
Let me tell you bout hard work
Am Am/C C
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Em7 G/Em2 G
Let me tell you bout hard work
Am Am/C C
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Em7 G/Em2 G
Let me tell you bout
Am Am/C C
Building a bed out of a card board box
Em7 G/Em2 G
Let me tell you bout hard work, hard work
Am Am/C C
Em7 G/Em2 G
Hard work, You don't know nothing bout hard work, hard work
Am Am/C Cadd9
hard work , Oh!
[Chorus]
G G/Em
How do you sleep at night?
Em7 G/Em
G
How do you walk with your head held high?
G/Em
G/Em
Dear Mr. President, you'd never take a walk with me
would you?