Song Of Choice chords by Peggy Seeger

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

intro:
G minorGm

G minorGm
Early every year the seeds are growing
   G+G            C majorC     G+G
Unseen, Unheard they lie beneath the ground
G minorGm
Would you know until their leaver are showing
   C minorCm          D MajorD     G minorGm
That with weeds all your garden will abound

Chorus:
D MajorD       G+G       D7D7
If you close your eyes, stop your ears
      G minorGm         D7D7
Hold your tongue, then how can you know?
   G minorGm
For seeds you cannot see may not be there
C minorCm D MajorD              G minorGm   C minorCm
Seeds you cannot hear may never grow

Verse:
C minorCm
In January you've still got the choice
    Eb MajorEb       FF    G7G7 G+G
You can cut the weeds before they start to bud
     C minorCm      Eb MajorEb               G minorGm
If you leave them to grow high, they'll silence your voice
         G+G   C minorCm
And in December you may pay with your blood

C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
            G7G7
Close your mouth, take it slow
C minorCm
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
DmDm        G7G7      C minorCm
And later you can say you didn't know

C minorCm          Bb majorBb     C minorCm
Every day another vulture takes flight
           FF     G+G
There's another danger born every morning
    C minorCm       Eb MajorEb       F minorFm     G+G
In the darkness of your blindness, the beast will learn to bite
                      G+G
How can you fight if you can't recognize a warning?

C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
G+G      C minorCm   G+G     G7G7
Close your mouth, take it slow
C minorCm
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
  DmDm      G7G7       C minorCm
And later you can say you didn't know

C minorCm       Bb majorBb      C minorCm
Today you may earn a living wage
Eb MajorEb     FF        G7G7
Tomorrow you may be on the dole
   C minorCm                Bb majorBb  F minorFm       G+G
Though there's millions going hungry, you needn't disengage
                        C minorCm
For it's them, not you, that's fallen in the hole

C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
          G7G7
Close your mouth, take it slow
C minorCm
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
DmDm    G7G7             C minorCm
And later you can say you didn't know

C minorCm
Today the soldiers took away one
       F minorFm     G7G7
Tomorrow they may take away too
C minorCm    Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb
Chile was taken last year
F minorFm          G minorGm     C minorCm G minorGm
But surely they will never take you

  C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
           G7G7
Close your mouth, take it slow
C minorCm
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
F minorFm        G7G7       C minorCm
And later you can say you didn't know

C minorCm
It's alright for you if you run with the pack
    Eb MajorEb      FF         G7G7
It's alright if you agree with all they do
  C minorCm
If fascism is slowly climbing back
 F minorFm         G7G7            C minorCm
It's not here yet, so what's it got to do with you?

C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
             G7G7
Close your mouth, take it slow
C minorCm                        F minorFm
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
F minorFm        G7G7        C minorCm
And later you can say you didn't know

C minorCm         Bb majorBb       C minorCm
The weeds are all around us and they're growing
C minorCm         FF      G7G7
It will soon be too late for the knife
   C minorCm         C majorC      AbAb         G+G
If you leave them on the wind that around the world is blowing
  F minorFm       G+G         C minorCm
You may pay for your silence with your life

C minorCm
So close your eyes, stop your ears
              G7G7
Close your mouth and never dare
C minorCm
And if it happens here they'll never come for you
F minorFm             G7G7      C minorCm
Because they'll know you really didn't care