Redemption Songs

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1. Old Pirates, yes, they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships, 
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    minutes after they took I        from the bottomless pit. 
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    But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty. 
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    We forward in this generation        triumphantly. 

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    Won't you help to sing       these songs of freedom? 
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    'Cause all  I ever had,       redemption songs, 
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    redemption songs. 

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2. emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, 
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    none but ourselves can free our minds. 
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    Have no fear for atomic energy, 
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    'cause none of them can stop the time. 
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     How long shall they kill our prophets, 
                      C                      Am 
    While we stand aside and look? 
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    Some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfil the book. 

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    So won't you help to sing       these songs of freedom? 
                Em    D      Em    C      D             G         C 
    'Cause all   I  ever had,       redemption songs, 
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    redemption songs,        redemption songs. 

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3. 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 
     How long shall they kill our prophets, 
                      C                      Am 
    While we stand aside and look? 
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    Yes, some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfil the book. 

           G             D         G      C             D              G 
    So won't you help to sing        these songs of freedom? 
                Em    D      Em    C      D             G 
    'Cause all   I  ever had,       redemption songs, 
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    all   I  ever had,       redemption songs, 
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    these songs of freedom,       songs of freedom.