Dear Mr President Acordes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2nrO_RU5oY
Jaar: 2006
Muziek/Tekst: Billy Mann en Alecia Moore
Producer: Billy Mann
Gecoverd door: Niels & Wiels (Piloot)
NOTICE for the Intro
G = Gsus2 = 3x003x 3x023x
D = D/F# = 2x003x 2x023x
Em = Em11 = 0x003x 0x023x
 
[Intro] (see NOTICE)
G     D     Em     D
 
[Verse 1]
G                    D                          Em
  Dear Mr President,   come take a walk with me.
D          G                              D
  Let's pretend we're just two people and   you're not better than me.
            Em7                                 D
I'd like to   ask you some questions if we can,   speak honestly.
 
[Pre-Chorus]
C         Em  Am7                   G                    D
  What do you feel when you see the homeless on the street?
C        Em  Am7                 G                     D
  Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
C         Em Am7                       Em7
  What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Dadd11    Cadd9
  Are you proud?
 
[Chorus]
           G               D          Am7     G/B     C
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
           G            D             Am7       G/B     C
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
           G              D         Cadd9
How do you walk with your head held high?
             Em7     D          Cadd9
Can you even look me in the eye   and tell me [Interlude]  why?
 
[Interlude] (see NOTICE)
G     D     Em     D
 
[Verse 2]
G                    D                        Em7
  Dear Mr President,   were you a lonely boy?   Are you a lonely boy?
D                 G                          D
  How can you say   no child is left behind?   We're not dumb, and we're not blind.
Em7                                 D
  They're all sitting in your cells   while you pave the road to hell.
 
[Pre-Chorus 2]
  C       Em  Am7                       G                       D
What kind of  father might take his own daughter's rights away?
C               Em  Am7                       G                       D
  And what kind of  father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
C            Em  Am7                   G               D
  I can only i - magine what the first lady has to say   you've come a
Em7                         A7sus4
long way from whiskey and cocaine
 
[Chorus]
           G               D          Am7     G/B     C
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
           G            D             Am7       G/B     C
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
           G              D         Cadd9
How do you walk with your head held high?
             Em7     D          Cadd9
Can you even look me in the eye?
 
[Bridge]
                      Em7       D   G
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
        Am7         G/B         C
minimum wage with a baby on the way.
                      Em7       D    G
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
                 Am7                   G/B        C
re-building your house after the bombs took them away.
                      Em7       D     G
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
           Am7              G/B   C
building a bed out of a cardboard box.
                      Em7        D    G     Am7     G/B     C
Let me tell you 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
                             Em7        D    G          Am7    G/B    C     C    C
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work!
 
[Outro]
G                D
How do you sleep at night?
Em7             D                   G
How do you walk with your head held high?
                   D
Dear Mr President,   you'd never take a walk with me
Em     D
         Uumm. Would you?
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