Shut Up And Sing chords by Brent Cobb

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

SONG:   SHUT UP AND SING
ARTIST: BRENT COBB
VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/XK5qaRdBvhQ
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL:  GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM


                      SHUT UP AND SING
                         BRENT COBB

INTRO:
B7  B7  B7  B7

VERSE:
       B7                             B7
I was told not long ago that I can`t talk the way I do
 B7                                      B7
Singers shouldn`t share their current affairs or worldly views
        E                                      E
Sayin` somethin` off the wall just might bend folks outta shape
              B7                                  B7
Hard workin` people spend their paychecks to show up and escape
          A                     E
So put a plug in what you think
 E                B7   B7
Man, shut up and sing

VERSE:
   B7                            B7
So I pulled out my guitar and I gave it a strum
        B7                             B7
And I thought about the way I`d lay it out there if one
      E                             E
Lone song was all I had to make it all make half sense
             B7                                 B7
To put some heart back on the forefront, collective consciousness
          A
Can`t be dead as my six strings
   E                             B7
I wondered, would I shut up and sing?
        B7
Then it hit me


CHORUS:
             A                         A
Shut up and sing, "Lord have mеrcy on all us earthly fools"
         B7                         B7
There`s poison in our rhеtoric and bullets in our schools
         A                            A
So I`ll sing, "What the hell is going on around here?"
                  B7                                 B7
Let`s take these blinders off our eyes and pull the cotton from our ears
           D                                   A
Until somebody says somethin` that means somethin`, I`ll
             B7  B7
Shut up and sing


VERSE:
 B7                              B7
Sometimes sayin` nothin` says it all and then some more
    B7                              B7
Conjecture causes bull and fuels unnecessary wars
 E                                E
Poets know hiding the truth somewhere between the lines somehow
 B7                           B7
Makes it seem worth more for those looking to find
      A                                 E
Some answers to the troubles this life brings
             B7  B7
Shut up and sing


CHORUS:
             A                             A
Shut up and sing, "Lord forgive us for we know not what we do"
          B7                                 B7
They`re shouting from the mountains down to south border towns too
             A                            A
Shut up and sing, "What the hell is going on around here?"
                  B7                                 B7
Let`s take these blinders off our eyes and pull the cotton from our ears
          D                                   A
Till somebody says somethin` that means something, I`ll
             B7 B7
Shut up and sing


INSTRUMENTAL:
B7  B7  B7  B7  E  E  B7  B7  D  A  B7  B7


VERSE:
 B7                             B7
Songs got ways of going places folks have never been
     B7                               B7
From one side of the world round and round and back again
 E                     E
Universal unity ain`t realistic, no, oh
    B7                                 B7
But who says we can`t hum one for the hell of it all?
           A                            E
You never know how true a melody might ring till
                 B7   N.C.
You shut up and sing

 B7   B7   B7   B7
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm


OUTRO:
B7  B7  B7  B7  E  E  B7  B7  A  E  B7  B7  B7