Dont Give Up

Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel)

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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription

is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.

Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to djb@uk.ac.bath.maths ;^)

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In this proud land we grew up strong

We were wanted all along

I was taught to fight, taught to win

I never thought I could fail

No fight left or so it seems

I am a man whose dreams have all deserted

I've changed my face, I've changed my name

But no one wants you when you lose

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Don't give up - 'cos you have friends

Don't give up - you're not beaten yet

Don't give up - I know you can make it good

 

Though I saw it all around

Never thought I could be affected

Thought that we'd be the last to go

It is so strange the way things turn

Drove the night toward my home

The place that I was born, on the lakeside

As daylight broke, I saw the earth

The trees had burned down to the ground

don't give up - you still have us

don't give up - we don't need much of anything

don't give up - 'cos somewhere there's a place where we belong

Ab Bm Eb Ab/Eb-Eb

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Rest your head

Bb Eb/Bb-Bb

You worry too much

Eb Ab/Eb-Eb

It's going to be alright

When times get rough, you can fall back on us,

Don't give up, please don't give up

Eb Bb Eb Ab/Eb-Eb

Got to walk out of here, I can't take anymore

Going to stand on that bridge, keep my eyes down below

Whatever may come and whatever may go,

That river's flowing, that river's flowing

Eb Bb Eb Ab/Eb-Eb

Moved on to another town

Tried hard to settle down

For every job, so many men

So many men no-one needs

Don't give up - 'cos you have friends

Don't give up - you're not the only one

Don't give up - no reason to be ashamed

Don't give up - you still have us

Don't give up now - we're proud of who you are

Don't give up - you know it's never been easy

Don't give up - 'cos I believe there's a place

There's a place where we belong

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Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up

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// What makes mass society so difficult to bear //

// is not the number of people involved...but //

// the fact that the world between them has lost //

// its power to gather them together, to relate //

// and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 //

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// Chris Tapio gctapio@ucdavis.edu //

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