Redemption
song
1. Old Pirates, yes,
they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships,
G Em C
D
minutes after they took I from the bottomless pit.
G Em C Am
But my hand was made strong by the hand of
the Almighty.
G Em C D
We forward in this generation triumphantly.
G D G - C D G
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
D Em
- C D
G C D G - C
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs, redemption songs.
2. Emancipate
yourselves from mental slavery,
C Am
none but ourselves can free our minds.
G Em
Have no fear for atomic energy,
C D
'cause none of them can stop the time.
G Em
How long shall they kill our prophets,
C Am
While we stand aside and look?
G Em C D
Yes,
some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfil the book.
G D G - C G
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
D Em -
C D G
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,
C D G - C
D G - C
redemption songs, redemption songs.
these songs of freedom, these songs of freedom.