People Got To Be Free: The Rascals
#1 in 1968.
CHORUS:
F C G C
All the world over, so easy to see,
F C G C
people everywhere just wanna be free.
F C G C
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be.
F C G C G C G
peace in the valley, people got to be free.
#1.
C G Am Em
You should see, what a lovely, lovely world this would be,
F C Dm G7
if everyone learned to live together.
C G Am Em
It seems to me, such an easy, easy, thing this should be.
F C Dm G7
Why can't you and me, learn to love one another?
CHORUS:#2.
F C G C
All the world over, so easy to see,
F C G C
people everywhere just wanna be free.
F C G C
I can't understand it, so simple to me,
F C G C G C G
People everywhere just got to be free.
#2.
C G Am Em
If there's a man who is down, and needs a helping hand,
F C Dm
all it takes is you to understand, and to see him through.
C G Am Em
Seems to me, we got to solve it individually.
F C Dm G7
And I'll do unto you, what you do to me.
#3.
F C G C
There'll be shoutin' from the mountains, on out to sea.
F C G C
No two ways about it, people have to be free.
F C G C
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be,
F C G C G C G
it's a natural situation for a man to be free.
#4.
F C G C
Oh, what a feelin's just come over me,
F C G C
Enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see.
F C G C
Everybody, sing it now, come on, let's go see,
F C G C
peace in the valley, now we ought to be free. (Fade)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.