...GOD'S CHILDREN... by The Kinks
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*from 'The Percy Original Soundtrack' (1971)*
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: F)
Intro:
D G, D A (x2)
Verse 1:
D D/C#
Man made the buildings,
Bm G D/F# Em
That reach for the sky.
D D/C#
And man made the motorcar,
Bm G D/F# Em
And learned how to drive.
Bridge 1:
Bm A
But he didn't make the flowers,
G D
And he didn't make the trees.
D Dsus4 D, D Dsus4 D
Bm A
And he didn't make you,
G D
And he didn't make me.
D Dsus4 D, D Dsus4 D
Em F#m
And he's got no right,
G D/F# Em A
To turn us into ma-chines.
A Asus4 A, Asus4 A
Chorus 1:
D G A
He's got no right at all,
D G A
'Cos we are all God's children.
D G
And he's got no right,
A
To change us.
Em F#m
Oh, we gotta go back,
G D/F# Em
To the way the good lord,
Asus4 A D Dsus4, D Dsus4
Made us all.
Break:
Em
Don't want this,
F#m
World to change me,
G
I wanna go back the way,
D
The good lord made me.
Em
Same lungs that,
F#m
He gave me to breathe with
G
Same eyes he gave me,
Asus4 A
To see with.
Verse 2:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/k/kinks/gods_children_crd.html ]
D D/C#
Oh, the rich man, the poor man,
Bm G D/F# Em
The saint and the sinner.
D D/C#
The wise man, the simpleton,
Bm G D/F# Em
The loser and the winner.
Bridge 2:
Bm A
We are all,
G D Dsus4 D, D Dsus4 D
The same to Him,
Em F#m
Stripped of our clothes,
G D/F#
And all...
Em A Asus4 A, Asus4 A
The things we own.
Chorus 2:
D G A
The day that we are born,
D G A
We are all God's children.
D G
And he's got no right,
A
To change us.
Em F#m
Oh, we gotta go back,
G D/F#
To the way the,
Em Asus4 A
Good lord made...
Chorus 3:
G
Oh, the good lord,
A D
Made us all,
G A D
And we are all his children.
D G
And he's got no right,
A
To change us.
Em F#m
Oh, we gotta go back,
G D/F# Em
To the way the good lord,
Asus4 A D
Made us all.
Em F#m
Yeah, we gotta go back,
G D/F# Em
To the way the good lord,
Asus4 A D
Made us all.
Outro:
D Dsus4
(Repeat to Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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D G A D/C# Bm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0232 320003 x02220 x40320 x24432
D/F# Em Dsus4 F#m Asus4
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
2x0230 022000 xx0233 244222 x02233
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
