INTRO:
B7 B7 B7 B7
VERSE:
B7 B7
I was told not long ago that I can't talk the way I do
B7 B7
Singers shouldn't share their current affairs or worldly views
E E
Sayin' somethin' off the wall just might bend folks outta shape
B7 B7
Hard workin' people spend their paychecks to show up and escape
A E
So put a plug in what you think
E B7 B7
Man, shut up and sing
VERSE:
B7 B7
So I pulled out my guitar and I gave it a strum
B7 B7
And I thought about the way I'd lay it out there if one
E E
Lone song was all I had to make it all make half sense
B7 B7
To put some heart back on the forefront, collective consciousness
A
Can't be dead as my six strings
E B7
I wondered, would I shut up and sing?
B7
Then it hit me
CHORUS:
A A
Shut up and sing, "Lord have mеrcy on all us earthly fools"
B7 B7
There's poison in our rhеtoric and bullets in our schools
A A
So I'll sing, "What the hell is going on around here?"
B7 B7
Let's take these blinders off our eyes and pull the cotton from our ears
D A
Until somebody says somethin' that means somethin', I'll
B7 B7
Shut up and sing
VERSE:
B7 B7
Sometimes sayin' nothin' says it all and then some more
B7 B7
Conjecture causes bull and fuels unnecessary wars
E E
Poets know hiding the truth somewhere between the lines somehow
B7 B7
Makes it seem worth more for those looking to find
A E
Some answers to the troubles this life brings
B7 B7
Shut up and sing
CHORUS:
A A
Shut up and sing, "Lord forgive us for we know not what we do"
B7 B7
They're shouting from the mountains down to south border towns too
A A
Shut up and sing, "What the hell is going on around here?"
B7 B7
Let's take these blinders off our eyes and pull the cotton from our ears
D A
Till somebody says somethin' that means something, I'll
B7 B7
Shut up and sing
INSTRUMENTAL:
B7 B7 B7 B7 E E B7 B7 D A B7 B7
VERSE:
B7 B7
Songs got ways of going places folks have never been
B7 B7
From one side of the world round and round and back again
E E
Universal unity ain't realistic, no, oh
B7 B7
But who says we can't hum one for the hell of it all?
A E
You never know how true a melody might ring till
B7 N.C.
You shut up and sing
B7 B7 B7 B7
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
OUTRO:
B7 B7 B7 B7 E E B7 B7 A E B7 B7 B7
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