Basic Protest Song Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][D][C][B][E][Am]
[G][Em]
[Am]
[G][Em]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
CHORUS: So your [Am]13 and there's
a silent
scream out there,
And you can hear it.
Just your [Bm]basic [Am]protest song.

[Verse 2]
[Am]Now your 16 and there's a danger in the air,
And you can see it.
Just your [Bm]ba sic protest s[Am]ong.

[Verse 3]
[Am]Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere,
And you can feel it.
Just your [D]ba sic [Bm]protest [Am]song.

[Verse 4]
Now your 30 and it's [Am]to late now to care,
And you can taste it.
Just your basic protest [C]song
[D][C][B][E][Am]

[Verse 5]
[Am]
Well, I just turned 13 don't know
what I wanna be,
I don't have much experience
but I'll tell you what I see.
When I hear the record sing and baby,
baby I love you,
It seems to me we all got
so much lovin left to do.

[Verse 6]
And at 16 I don't know to much but [C]I'll
tell you what I do know,
If [D]you do not give a damn I'll
[F]tell you where to go.
There is [Am]something truly crazy
with our [C]patriotic song,
We [D]know to wave the flag round the [F]week begins
[C]a strong.[D][C][B][E][Am]
[D][Am]

[Interlude 1]
CHORUS
[Am][D][Am]
[Bm][Am]
[C][D][C]
[B][E][Am][G][Am][D]
[Am]
[C]
[Am]Oh now that I

[Verse 7]
am 20 got my
first full time job,
My boss, upstanding citizen,
finds legal ways to rob.
They say forget what you believe
forget what you have seen,
But I know I lost the best of me when
I forgot my dreams.

[Verse 8]
I'm [Am]passin' on through
30 got two [C]kids of my own,
Got a [D]wife, house, a car,
and dog but [F]still I am alone.
And I'm [Am]tired of only selling
cause it's [C]my self that I sell,
I'm [D]glad of always buying cause
I [F]can't buy it ourselves.
I know [Am]none of us is perfect I can

[Verse 9]
[C]
see myself to well,
If [D]we can't push for paradise we're [F]settled
in for [C]hell.[D][C][B][E][Am]
[Bm][Am]

[Outro 1]
CHORUS
[Am][D][Am]
[Bm][Am][C][D][C][B][E][Am]
[G]
[Em][Am]
[G][Em][Am]
[Am][Am]
[G][Em]