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People Got To Be Free by Keb' Mo'
People Got To Be Free
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: D
[Intro]
e|---0---------------------|---0---------------------|
B|---0---------------------|---2---------------------|
G|---0---------------------|---2---------------------|
D|---2---------------------|---2---------------------|
A|---2---------------------|---0----2-----3-----4----|
E|---0-----2-----3-----4---|-------------------------|
This distinctive figure comes at the end of the verse.
Listen to the recording for the syncopation.
N.C.
All the world over, so easy to see
N.C.
People everywhere just wanna be free
N.C.
Listen, people listen, that's the way it should be
N.C. Bm Bm A G Bm Bm A G
Peace in the valley, people got to be free
[verse 1]
D A Bm F#m
You should see what a lovely, lovely world this could be
G D Em A
Everyone learns to live together
D F#7 Bm F#m F#m7b5
Well it seems to me such an itty bitty thing should be
G D Em A
Why can't you and me learn to love one another
G D/F# A/E D
All the world over, so easy to see
G D/F# A/E D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G D/F# A/E D
I can't understand, it s so simple to me
G D/F# A/E Bm Bm A G Bm Bm A G
People everywhere just gotta be free
[verse 2]
D A Bm F#m
If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand
G D Em A
All it takes is you to understand and to pull him through
D F#7 Bm F#m F#m7b5
Seems to me we got to solve it individually
G D Em A
And I'll do unto you what you do to unto me
G D/F# A/E D
There'll be shouting from the mountains on out to sea
G D/F# A/E D
No two ways about it, people have to be free
G D/F# A/E D
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be
G D/F# A/E Bm Bm A G Bm Bm A G
It's a natural situation for a man to be free
[interlude]
D F6 Bb Asus4 A
G D A D
Oh, what a feeling just came over me.
G D A D
Love can move a mountain, make a blind man see
G D A D
Everybody's singing now let's go see
G D A Bm Bm A G
Deep in the valley, now we ought to to be free
G D A D
All the world over, so easy to see
G D A D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G D A D
Listen, people listen, that's the way it should be
G D A Bm Bm A G
Deep in the valley, people got to be free
G D A D
All the world over, so easy to see (See that train over there?)
G D A D
People everywhere just wanna be free (That's the train to freedom)
G D A D
I can't understand, it s so simple to me (It’s about to arrive any minute)
G D A Bm Bm A G
Peace in the valley, people got to be free (It's been long, long overdue)
(Train is coming right on through)
G D A D
All the world over, so easy to see
G D A D
People everywhere just wanna be free
G D A D
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be
G D A Bm Bm A G
Peace in the valley, people got to be free
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