Show Them The Way

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      Please God, show 'em the way
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Please God, on this day
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  Spirits all given the strength
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Peace can come if you really want it


[Verse 1]
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I had a fragile dream in a gray house in the Hamptons
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I'd been there before, singing songs and doing benefits
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Was in a room alone putting on my makeup
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Like so many things that come to me, the dress came across the Persian carpet

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As I fell into the dress, a thought came to me
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Into my heart, I have a dream
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  And a door opened
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I turned to face the music

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  I was ready for the Kennedys
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I don't know if it was 1960   or 1963
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  Everything was timeless, even me
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I wasn't old, I wasn't young, I was just part of their dream

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A shadow walked with me down the hall, it was Martin Luther King
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All in shadow, all before me, overwhelmed by
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Destiny, someone said, "Sing us a song
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There's a piano"  and handed me a drink
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The room was full of hope,  a song would set them free


[Chorus]
C                 D                Em
      Please God, show 'em the way
C           D           Em
Please God, on this day
G C           D                  Em
  Spirits all given the strength
C                     D              C
Peace can come if you really want it


[Verse 2]
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I sat at the piano, stared out of the shadows
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I sang the words, "I have a dream"
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He wasn't my old friend John, I didn't know him then
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But he smiled at me,   and I sang these words

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Whatever it takes
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Whatever it takes to be free
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   No, I didn't know these men
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   But they knew me


[Verse 3]
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It was all symbolic, nothing was as it seemed
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  They all left us in a single shot but they didn't take the dream
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They were there in that house, discussing the future
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And drinking champagne, I was just a piano player

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The voice, part of their dream
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I was thirty-five and maybe I was fifteen
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It was just another night in the presence of Martin Luther King
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I was just a dreamer; I was ready for the Kennedys


[Chorus]
Em
And I said
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      Please God, show 'em the way
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Please God, on this day
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Light the fire, start it over

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Tell the world about the dream
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Start it up and make it real

[Solo]
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Please God       show him the way
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Please God       show her the way
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Please God       show them the way
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Please God


[Verse 4]
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Back in the room where it all began
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My heart began to heal, I believe it
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I remember the beauty of the Hamptons
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Shadows playing in the sun

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  A voice said, "The dream is not over, no
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The dream has just begun"
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I spun around to see another shadow
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Slipping through the door

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And my eyes opened wide, "What is this all for?"
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And the shadow said, "Don't forget it, don't forget
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What we were fighting for, don't forget it"


[Chorus]
Em
And I said
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Please God, show 'em the way
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(It's just another night)
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Please God, on this day
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(Martin Luther King)

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Spirits all given the strength   (Sing us a song)
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Peace can come if you fight for it (Don't forget it)
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Think we're just in time-ime to say


[Chorus]
 Em
(Ooh, and said, oh said)
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Please God, show 'em the way  (All in shadow)
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Please God, on this day   (All before me)
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Spirits all given the strength

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Peace can come if you fight for it
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Think we're just in time to say this
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Set them free
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Room was full of hope


[Chorus]
C           D               Em
Please God, show 'em the way   (I believe it)
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Please God, on this day   (Don't forget it)
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Spirits all given the strength
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Don't forget what    we were fighting for
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Think we're just in time-ime to say


[Outro]
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Peace can come      if you fight for it
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Peace can come      if you try harder
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Peace can come,  ooh, if you really want it
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That dream

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Don't forget it, please God
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Show them    the way