people got to be free : the young rascals .
#1 in 1968 .

chorus : #1 . ( capo 5th fret . )
F C G C
all the world over , so easy to see ,
F C G C
people everywhere just wanna be free .
F C G C
listen , please listen , that’s the way it should be .
F C G C G C G
peace in the valley , people got to be free .

#1 .
C G Am Em
you should see , what a lovely , lovely world this would be ,
F C Dm G7
if everyone learned to live together .
C G Am Em
it seems to me , such an easy , easy , thing this should be .
F C Dm G7
why can’t you and me , learn to love one another?

chorus : #2 .
F C G C
all the world over , so easy to see ,
F C G C
people everywhere just wanna be free .
F C G C
i can’t understand it , so simple to me ,
F C G C G C G
people everywhere just got to be free .

#2 .
C G Am Em
if there’s a man who is down , and needs a helping hand ,
F C Dm
all it takes is you to understand , and to see him through .
C G Am Em
seems to me , we got to solve it individually .
F C Dm G7
and i’ll do unto you , what you do to me .

#3 .
F C G C
there’ll be shoutin’ from the mountains , on out to sea .
F C G C
no two ways about it , people have to be free .
F C G C
ask me my opinion , my opinion will be ,
F C G C G C G
it’s a natural situation for a man to be free .

#4 .
F C G C
oh , what a feelin’s just come over me ,
F C G C
enough to move a mountain , make a blind man see .
F C G C
everybody , sing it now , come on , let’s go see ,
F C G C
peace in the valley , now we ought to be free . ( fade )

a sixties smash from kraziekhat .