Resistance chords by David Rovics

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
D MajorD                G+G    E minorEm
You can say that it's about the savages
  D MajorD                G+G   A7A7
You can say you have a better way to live
    D MajorD        G+G    E minorEm
You can call it Manifest Destiny
    D MajorD                 G+G  A7A7
You can talk of all your civilization will give
D MajorD                 G+G    E minorEm
You can say that we're a thing of history
  D MajorD                G+G   A7A7
And progress is the future you will bring
  D MajorD               G+G     E minorEm
You can send your armies to these mountains
    D MajorD     G+G     A7A7
You can say we'll prosper beneath your king

Chorus:
        G+G      A7A7
But there will always be resistance
      D MajorD          G+G
The next battle will always be near
          A7A7
As long as you have everything
       D MajorD             G+G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
  B minorBm          G+G             A7A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
      G+G     A7A7       D MajorD
Because our future is not yours to choose


Verse 2:
D MajorD                    G+G     E minorEm
You can say that you've got to stop the communists
  D MajorD               G+G    A7A7
You can say that our ideals can't succeed
    D MajorD              G+G     E minorEm
You can say that competition is the only way
   D MajorD           G+G   A7A7
And a global system based on greed
D MajorD              G+G    E minorEm
And you can call yourself a democrat
D MajorD                 G+G   A7A7
You can call yourself whatever you will
  D MajorD                G+G        E minorEm
And you can keep on stamping out the fires you start
    D MajorD            G+G  A7A7
So you might stay on top of the hill

Chorus:

But there will always be resistance
      D MajorD          G+G
The next battle will always be near
          A7A7
As long as you have everything
       D MajorD             G+G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
  B minorBm          G+G             A7A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
      G+G     A7A7       D MajorD
Because our future is not yours to choose


Verse 3:
D MajorD                 G+G     E minorEm
And you can say that all of us are terrorists
    D MajorD               G+G  A7A7
Madmen bent on destroying all that's free
    D MajorD            G+G    E minorEm
You can say that we are building weapons
  D MajorD                  G+G  A7A7
As your bombers fly from sea to bloody sea
D MajorD                   G+G E minorEm
You can say you're with us or against us
D MajorD               G+G      A7A7
And to die quietly is what we now must do
    D MajorD       G+G     E minorEm
You can maintain your innocence
D MajorD                   G+G         A7A7
You can say that you are many, as you represent the few


Chorus:

But there will always be resistance
      D MajorD          G+G
The next battle will always be near
          A7A7
As long as you have everything
       D MajorD             G+G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
  B minorBm          G+G             A7A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
      G+G     A7A7       D MajorD
Because our future is not yours to choose