Brothers and sisters

Comrades in arms

We are gathered here today to pay homage

To pay homage to this thing we call 'the blues'

The great bluesmen Muddy Waters and B.B. King

The great blueswomen Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone

We pay our dues

We pay our dues and we become the blues

It came out of Africa

through the Voodoo Caribbean

Building the railroads

Fields of cotton

Leadbelly often shared his culture with us

In 1990 I saw the great blues man CLARENCE GATEMOUTH BROWN

in Milwaukee Wisconsin

A week later I was down in Chicago walking from bar to bar

Seeing how our African-American brothers do this thing

Yeah I was down

Yeah I was down

Yeah I was down, down on the scene

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V1

Gypsy man looked into my eyes

Shaman held me by my soul

Said 'tell me what you want Boy, in this whole wide world'
Is it money? is it girls?

If you could have anything in this whole wide world?

Well, let me think about it...

G G G

(What do you want?)


V2
A
Well I want love and I want life

Peace love and happiness for my brothers my sisters and me

Air that my children can breathe fish in the sea

Justice for my brothers in the Northern Territory

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F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove
F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove


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V3

A
I wanna hear the music till people are dancing on the street

I wanna hear the music

I wanna hear the birdsong in this moment now

Justice for the children caught in jails like zoos

Justice for my brothers in the Northern Territory


F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove
F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove

F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove
F G
I wanna feel the love (ah ah)
Am
I wanna feel the groove

G G G G G G