CHURCH OF RHYTHM - "common people" Tablature

Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd

Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
6-20-97

These chords are easy, so I'm not gonna' write them down. You can use
power or open chords. They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).

Chorus:

C G
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man

Am F
Let's find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand

C G
We are a common people, living in a common life

Am F
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines

Am G F
Common people you and I

Am G F
Common people you and I



C
I see a blind man on the street

G
He doesn't know what I look like

Am
So he can't judge the man I am

F
Except by what he sees inside

C
I see a child on the street

G
He doesn't know the mistakes I've made

Am
I know he takes me where I am

F
He sees a friend not a crusade


Chorus.


C
I see a brother on the other side

G
of my crusade, my holy fight

Am
I think I know where I went wrong

F
when I gave up love to be proved right

C
I saw a man die on a cross

G
He forgot the mistakes I've made

Am
He died for me the way I was

F
and He wants me to love the same


Chorus.


Dm
Can't we tear the fences down?

Am
Can't we rip the labels off?

F
Can we share the common ground

C G
instead of judging what is not?

Dm
Can't we love instead of hate?

Am
Can't we trust instead of fear?

F
Can we stop fighting for a moment

C G
and feel our common fear?

Am G
Is it us against them, wrong against right,

F
black against white, my kind your kind?

Am G
There comes a time to put the argument down

F
and have a party on the common ground!


Chorus.