Don't give up - 'cos you have friends

Ab/F Eb/G Cm7/Ab Don't give up - you're not beaten yet Ab/F Eb/G Cm/Ab Don't give up - I know you can make it good Ab/F Eb/G Ab Bb [verse] Though I saw it all around Never thought I could be affected Thought that we'd be the last to go It is so strange the way things turn Drove the night toward my home The place that I was born, on the lakeside As daylight broke, I saw the earth The trees had burned down to the ground [chorus] don't give up - you still have us don't give up - we don't need much of anything don't give up - 'cos somewhere there's a place where we belong Ab Bm Eb Ab/Eb-Eb Bridge: ------- Rest your head Bb Eb/Bb-Bb You worry too much Eb Ab/Eb-Eb It's going to be alright Bb Eb/Bb Bb When times get rough, you can fall back on us, Eb Ab Eb Don't give up, please don't give up Eb Bb Eb Ab/Eb-Eb Got to walk out of here, I can't take anymore Eb Bb Going to stand on that bridge, keep my eyes down below Eb Ab Whatever may come and whatever may go, Eb Bb That river's flowing, that river's flowing Eb Bb Eb Ab/Eb-Eb [verse] Moved on to another town Tried hard to settle down For every job, so many men So many men no-one needs [chorus] Don't give up - 'cos you have friends Don't give up - you're not the only one Don't give up - no reason to be ashamed Don't give up - you still have us Don't give up now - we're proud of who you are Don't give up - you know it's never been easy Don't give up - 'cos I believe there's a place Ab Bb There's a place where we belong Bb Eb End Section: ------------ [Cm bass riff] Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up Eb F Cm -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// // Chris Tapio gctapio@ucdavis.edu // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////