Song: Redemption Day
Album: American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave
***CAPO 1***
INTRO: Am
Am
I've wept for those who suffer long
Am
But how I weep for those who've gone
Am
In rooms of grief and questioned wrong
AmDAm
But keep on killing
Am
It's in the soul to feel such things
Am
But weak to watch without speaking
Am
Oh, what mercy sadness brings
AmDAm
If God be willing
CHORUS:
AmC
There is a train that's heading straight
CAmFC
To Heaven's gate, to Heaven's gate
C
And on the way child and man
CAmFD
And woman wait, watch and wait
DAm
For redemption day
(Verses same as before)
Fire rages in the streets
And swallows everything it meets
It's just an image often seen
On television
Come leaders, come ye men of great
Let us hear you pontificate
Your many virtues laid to waste
And we aren't listening
(Repeat Chorus)
BRIDGE:
DCF
What do you have for us today
DCAm
Throw us a bone but save the plate
DCF
On why we waited till so late
FD
Was there no oil to excavate
DF
No riches in trade for the fate
FD
Of every person who died in hate
DAm
Throw us a bone, you men of great
(Repeat Chorus)
DCF
It's buried in the countryside
DCAm
Exploding in the shells at night
DCF
It's everywhere a baby cries
FDFDAm
Freedom......Freedom......Freedom