------------------------------------------------ Freedom - Mason Jennings tabbed by wantobeready_34@yahoo.com hosted at birdwingsbeat.com ------------------------------------------------ tune half step down Intro e----------------------------------------------------------------------------- B--0-2-2h4----2--4/7-4h7-7/9-----12-9h12p9-7-4----7-9----2-2------------------ G----------------------------------------------------------------------------- D----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A----------------------------------------------------------------------------- E----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Verses - (just bass playing E) In a market place in old Bombay The Dalhi Lhama shot Cassius Clay I wonder what it is your looking for And Tony Morrison and Malcolm X Taught from the trees by their broken necks I wonder what it is your looking for And Charlie Parker and Kerouac Looked into the light until their eyes went black I wonder what it is your looking for Aristotle said to Socrates Even love wants victory I wonder what it is your looking for Verses - (All on E chord) Last night I had the same old dream I was running through fields of green Being chased by a little boy with a gun I turned around and I saw his face A shot was fired and the dream erased I woke up burning on a funeral pyre Standing over me was my only son Swinging down his hammer 'til his work was done Turning this body to bones, and these bones to dust And takin' that dust to an old bird's nest Out into the water up to his chest And sinking that birds nest down in a river bed And I took the river out to the see Until the storm clouds called for me And fell like rain on the soft souther soil And up from the bottom on the first downbeat Up through the congregations feet Up like wind that shakes the leaves from the tree Up through the fingers of the gospel singers Up through the songs where the dead live on Up, up, up E E6 What did you lose, my friend E6 E What did you lose, my friend e---0----0-------- B---0----2-------- G---1----x-------- D---2----2-------- A---2----2-------- E---0----0-------- E E6 ------------------------------------------------ Freedom - Mason Jennings tabbed by wantobeready_34@yahoo.com hosted at birdwingsbeat.com ------------------------------------------------