Intro: F G C Verse: F G C Deny, depose, defend F G C A businessman met an early end F G C Left his lonely widow crying in the Benz F G C Certainly the tens of people cry along with them F G C In trailers and in shelters and in pens
F G C I rake the leaves all in my yard F G C But more just fall abreast of them F G C I hope we get the rest of them F G C I hope we get the rest of them F G C His gravestone's barely laid F G C They show his smiling picture on the evening news at 8 F G C Saying violence ain't the answer, when will people learn? F G C But in a million different churches a million candles burn F G C For a million different people who waited for their turn F G C In Baltimore and LA and in New York and in Houston F G C And in Gaza and in Haiti and all across the planet F G C When your only claim to freedom is easily denied F G C You work yourself to death just to keep yourself alive F G C Haven't picked your gun up since 1965 F G C The changes that they promised us F G C The rich men all attest to them F G C I hope we get the rest of them F G C I hope we get the rest of them
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