Power And The Glory chords

Phil Ochs

Key: 

Simplify chords 

  			
Verse 
            C       
Come on and take a walk with me through this green and growing land, 
Am                               Dm 
Walk through the meadows and the mountains and the sand, 
F 
Walk through the valleys and the rivers and the plains, 
Dm                       G 
Walk through the sun and walk through the rain. 

Am                     Em 
Here is a land full of power and glory, 
Am                         G 
beauty that words cannot recall, 
        C                       Em 
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom, 
    Am          C          G 
her glory shall rest on us all! 

Verse 
     C 
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas, too, 
   Am                         Dm 
Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new, 
F 
Texas and Ohio and the California shore, 
Dm                         G 
Tell me, who could ask for more? 

Am                     Em 
Here is a land full of power and glory, 
Am                         G 
beauty that words cannot recall, 
        C                       Em 
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom, 
    Am          C          G 
her glory shall rest on us all! 

Verse 
          C 
Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of her poor, 
Am                  Dm 
Only as free as the padlocked prison door, 
F 
Only as strong as our love for this land, 
Dm                 G 
Only as tall as we stand. 

Am                     Em 
Here is a land full of power and glory, 
Am                         G 
beauty that words cannot recall, 
        C                       Em 
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom, 
    Am          C          G 
her glory shall rest on us all! 

Rare Extra Verse 
        C 
Yet our land is still troubled by men who have to hate 
     Am                              Dm 
They twist away our freedom and they twist away our fate 
F 
Fear is their weapon and treason is their cry. 
F                      G 
We can stop them if we try. 
 
Am                     Em 
Here is a land full of power and glory, 
Am                         G 
beauty that words cannot recall, 
        C                       Em 
Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom, 
    Am          C          G 
her glory shall rest on us all! 
      C   Em  Am  G  C 
On us all