MLK Interlude Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]I say to [Bb]you this morning
[Am]That if yo[F]u have never[Am] found something
so dear and so precious to you
That you will die for it, then you
[F]aren't fit to [Am]live
You may be 38 years old as
I happen to be
And [F]one day,
[Am]some great opportunity stands before you
And calls upon you to stand
up for some great principle
Some great issue, some great cause
And you refuse to do
it because you are afraid
You [F]refuse [Am]to do it because you
wanna live longer
You're afraid that you will
lose your job
Or you're afraid that you will
be criticized
Or that you will lose your popularity
[Bb]Or you're afraid that [Am]somebody will stab
you or shoot at you or bomb your house
[F]And so you re[Am]fuse to take the stand
Well, you may go on and live
until you are 90
But you're just as dead at 38 as you would
[F]be at [Am]90
And the sensation of [F]breathing
[Am]in your life is but
The belated announcement
of an earlier death of the spirit
You died when you refused
to stand up for right
You died when you refused
to stand up for truth
You [F]died when you refused
[Am]to stand up for justice