Tear It Down
Amy Ray
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Tom : Am
F G E Am F G
[Verse]
C E Am
You say, "I miss the old ways, but not like that
Dm G C
Dog whistling fool of a king."
E7 Am
Don't cha know that old Dixie Land
D G C
Is more than dirt roads and simple ways?
Dm G C G Am F C G
Tear it down Tear it down That ragged cross of race
C E7 Am
I don't guess that we deserve all this
Dm7 G C E7 Am
Beauty and the light The way the firefly returns in June
Dm7 G C
As dusk sings her lullaby
Em Am Dm G C
All the lives that fertilized and the manifested hand
E7 Am Dm G C
The human bondage that provides the bounty of this land
Dm7 G C G Am
Tear it down Tear it down That ragged cross of race
Dm G C Bm
The stone and the ore Beaten into monuments That rose out of hate
[Interlude]
Am F G E Am F
[Verse]
G C E Am
I was that lonely kid in old cinemas
D G C E Am
Watching Gone with the Wind Tradition runs the core of me
D G C
And The Song of the South, whistling Dixie again
Em Am Dm G C
Oh, that tune lived and breathed in me, and it wants to live again
E7 Am D G C
But we must fight with all our might to kill that racist hymn
Dm Dm7 G C G Am
Tear it down Tear it down That ragged cross of race
Dm G
The stone and the ore Beaten into monuments
C G Am
That rose out of hate
Fm G F G C C7 C
The epitaph I Long to read is ""Here lies slavery.""
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