Say Can You See

            G                   C              G
I love this country, I love the people and the land
              G                             D
But there’s a lot of stuff happening that I can’t understand
       G                             C             G
We got billions for bailouts, we got trillions for wars
         G                          D             G
But it’s hard for working people to make a living anymore

                  G                    C         G
Hear me out for a second, this ain’t a partisan song
               G                          D
It ain’t about right and left, it’s about right and wrong
                        G                      C           G
We’re fighting over the scraps while a few are living like kings
       G                    D          G
‘Cause screwing us over’s a bipartisan thing

[Chorus]

         C       G          C                 G
And it’s working people who made this country great
        C            G             D
Not the greedy opportunists or the peddlers of hate
         C        G                   B7                C
And if a new day’s coming, it’s gotta come from you and me
G  D            C
Oh say, can you see?


[Verse]

             G                   C      G
See, I got a neighbour, we don’t always agree
                G                       D
He’s a bit of a redneck, according to a hippy like me
            G                              C              G
But if you’re in the ditch, he’ll pull you out, I know he will
           G                                 D                G
And that’s more than I can say for all those dickheads on the hill

           G                           C           G
He works hard for his family, he’s got loyalty and pride
            G                         D
The company took all he gave and then cast him aside
             G                                C         G
See, there’s profit in poverty, hell, there’s profit in prisons
            G                       D             G
And they don’t even pay taxes, they just buy politicians

[Chorus]

         C       G          C                 G
But it’s working people who made this country great
        C            G             D
Not the greedy opportunists or the peddlers of hate
         C        G                   B7                C
And if a new day’s coming, it’s gotta come from you and me
G  D            C
Oh say, can you see?
Em D            C
Oh say, can you see?


[Verse]

            G                 C           G
In New York Harbour there’s a lady with a flame
               G                       D
Still calling in the huddled masses in Liberty’s name
            G                        C                    G
But there’s fear on the airwaves and hatred wrapped in the flag
            G                       D             G
Turning strangers into enemies and our riches into rags

      G                       C       G
And a revolution to break the grip of greed
            G                       D
Don’t need a strongman or a saviour, but I believe we’re gonna need
            G                    C           G
Whatever magic this old world’s got left to start
            G                 D               G
And all the ammunition in the chambers of our hearts


[Chorus]
     C       G          C                 G
It’s working people who made this country great
        C            G             D
Not the greedy opportunists or the peddlers of hate
         C        G                   B7                C
And if a new day’s coming, it’s gotta come from you and me
G  D            C
Oh say, can you see?
Em D            C
Oh say, can you see?