shut up and sing Chords

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[Intro 1]
[G]
[Gm]I was told

[Verse 1]
[G]not long ago that
I can't talk the way I do
Singers shouldn't share their current
affairs or worldly views
Sayin' [C]something off the wall just
might bend folks outta shape
Hard workin' [G]people spend their
paychecks to show up and escape
So put [F]a plug in what [C]you think
Man, shut up and sing
[G]

[Verse 2]
So I pulled out my guitar and
I [Gsus4]gave it a st[G]rum
And I thought about the way I'd
[Gsus4]lay it out there if on[G]e
Lone [C]song was all I had to make
it all make half- sense
To put some [G]heart back on the forefront,
[Gsus4]collective consciousness
[G]Can't be dea[F]d as my six strings
I [C]wondered what would
I shut up [G]an d sing
Then it hit me

[Verse 3]
Shut up and [F]sing, Lord,
have mercy on all us earthly fools
There's [G]poison in our rhetoric
and bullets in our schools
So I'll [F]sing what the hell
is going on around here
Let's take these [G]blinders off our eyes
and pull the cotton from our ears
Until some[Bb]body says something
and means [F]something
I'll shut up and sing
[G]

[Verse 4]
[Gsus4]
Some[G]times saying nothing says it
all and then some more
Conjecture causes bull and
fuels unnecessary wars
[C]Poets know hiding the truth somewhere
between the lines
[G]Somehow makes it seem worth
more for those looking to find
Some [F]answers to the troubles
this life [C]brings so
They shut up and sing
[G]

[Verse 5]
Shut up and [F]sing, Lord,
forgive us for we know not what we do
There's [G]shouting from the mountains
down to south border towns too
Shut up and [F]sing,
what the hell is going on around here
Let's take these [G]blinders off our eyes
and pull the cotton from our ears
'Til some[Bb]body says something
that means something
[F]I'll shut up and sing

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 6]
[Gm]Songs got [G]ways of going places
folks have never been
From one side of the world,
'round and 'round and back again
[C]Universal unity ain't realistic, naw
Aw, but [G]who says we can't run
one for the hell of it all?
You never [F]know how true
a melody might [C]ring
'Til you shut up and [G]sing

[Outro 1]
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