Side By Side Chords by Wilder Adkins

Side By Side Chords

by Wilder Adkins

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🎸 Intro: G G G G 🎸 Intro: G G e|---------0--------------------|---------0--------------------| B|---0h3-------3---0------------|---0h3-------3-------0--------| G|---------------------2---0----|-----------------0------------| D|------------------------------|------------------------------| A|------------------------------|------------------------------| E|--3--3-------3-----------3----|--3--3-------3-------3--------| 🎸 Verse 1: G Peace, it don't come easy, G Love, it don't come free, G Martin Luther King said, G Am7/G Lord, I have a Dream, Am7/G Boys and girls of every, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G color walking side by side, Am7/G Brother, sister, come on, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 turn that darkness into light.
🎸 Verse 2: G I was born into the, G heart of Dixie Land, G Holy rollers in the, G Am7/G hills of Birmingham, Am7/G all those summers spent just, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G chasing lightning bugs by night, Am7/G heavy stillness in the, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G heat of August & July. 🎸 Verse 3: G Lord, a wind was stirring, G from the east to west, G set my heart a-blazing, G Am7/G deep down in my chest, Am7/G and I heard that preacher, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G crying out on 16th street, Am7/G "Till we all have freedom, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G there is no man truly free". [Interlude] G G G G Am7/G C G G 🎸 Verse 4: G On into September, G heard the people say, G 'things just won't get better', Am7/G 4 girls died today, Am7/G but we will rise up singing, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G truly, We Shall Overcome, Am7/G and we won't quit singing, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G till that day of glory comes. 🎸 Verse 5: G Peace, it don't come easy, G Love, it don't come free, G Martin Luther King said, G Am7/G Lord, I have a Dream, Am7/G Boys and girls of every, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G color walking side by side, Am7/G Brother, sister, come on, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G turn that darkness into light. Am7/G Brother, sister, come on, G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G G Gadd11 G G turn that darkness into light. 🎸 Outro: G Gadd11 G G And we shall over---come one day, G Gadd11 G G We shall over---come, G Gadd11 G G Deep in my heart I do believe, G Am7 G Gadd11 G Gadd11 G One day, we shall overcome. Gadd11 G X

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Published: February 11, 2026
Last Updated: February 11, 2026