Guitar chords with lyrics
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E MajorE As we go marching marching in the beauty of the day,
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E7E7
A augmentedA million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
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F# minorF#m
D MajorD
E7E7 Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
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D MajorD
E MajorE
A augmentedA For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!"
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E MajorE As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
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B7B7
E7E7 For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
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F# minorF#m
D MajorD
E7E7 Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
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D MajorD
E MajorE
A augmentedA Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses! Verse 3:
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E MajorE As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
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B7B7
E7E7 Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
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F# minorF#m
D MajorD
E7E7 Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
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D MajorD
E MajorE
A augmentedA Yes, it is bread we fight for - but we fight for roses, too! Verse 4:
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E MajorE As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
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B7B7
E7E7 The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
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F# minorF#m
D MajorD
E7E7 No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,
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D MajorD
E MajorE
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