[ Предположительная тональность: Eb ] Transcribed from the live recording made two days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. INTRO: a quick strike of B7b5, and then a long flutter of Bb13sus4 and B7 What's gonna happen now? In all of our cities? My people are rising; they're living in lies. Even if they have to die Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is Even at that one moment that ya know what life is If you have to die, it's all right Cause you know what life is You know what freedom is for one moment of your life Bb But he had seen the mountaintop Eb Fm7 Eb And he knew he could not stop Ab F7 Bb7 Always living with the threat of death ahead Eb G7 Folks you'd better stop and think Ab F7 Fm7 Everybody knows we're on the brink Eb Cm7 Fm7 Bb7 Eb Fm7 Eb What will happen, now that the King is dead? Eb Cm7 F7 Bb7 We can all shed tears; it won't change a thing Eb G7 Teach your people: Will they ever learn? Ab F7 Fm7 Must you always kill with burn and burn with guns Eb Cm7 F7sus4 Bb7 Eb And kill with guns and burn - don't you know how we gotta react? Bb But he had seen the mountaintop Eb Fm7 Eb And he knew he could not stop Ab F7 Bb7 Always living with the threat of death ahead Eb G7 Folks you'd better stop and think Ab F7 Fm7 Everybody knows we're on the brink Eb F7sus4 Em Fm7 Em What will happen, now that the King is dead?