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