Powerful People

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not entirely comfortable with, and I strongly encourage
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  keyboard players: small case letters above chord indicate high note voicing


   |Am7/D     |Bm7/E      |Am7/D     |Bm7/E



   |Cmaj7/D   |Bm7/E      |Cmaj7/D   |Bm7/E



   |Cmaj7/D   |Bm7/E      |Cmaj7/D   |Bm7/E

Verse


Am7/D                Bm7/E
Look at the powerful people

Am7/D                       Bm7/E
Stealing the night from the day

     Am7                  Dm7
Wish I could do something about it
                                     g
     Bm7/E              Fmaj9       Fmaj9
When all i can do is to pray        /   /   /   /

chorus:
          e      d#           d
        Dm9    G7-9+5       Cmaj9
It's a lonely          afternoon

       a          g#        g
     Dm9        C7-9+5    Fmaj9
With nowhere to go but my room

       ab       a      c       b
     Dm7-5    Dm7/G            Cmaj9
and sunday   when    there's   time

   a                g#          g
  Dm7             C7-9+5      Fmaj9
I think of these things in my mind

            E7-9+5   E7+5             Am7/D    Bm7/E   Cmaj7/D   Bm7/E
And I don't know  ow whe  ere will it go


repeat verse and chorus


Instrumental break #1
    d#        e         d#        e           f        f#       f        f#
 |B3/A     C3/A      |B3/A     C3/A     |C#3/B      D3/B    |C#3/B     D3/B    |

   d#        e         d#        e           f        f#       f         f#
 |B3/A    C3/A       |B3/A     C3/A     |C#3/B      D3/B    |C#3/B     D3/B    |

 d#        e         d#         e          f         f#       f          f#
 |B3/A    C3/A       |B3/A     C3/A     |C#3/B      D3/B    |C#3/B     D3/B    |


Cm7/F                       Fmaj9
Come on you world won't you give a damn

Cm7/F                            Fmaj9
Turn on some lights and see this garbage can

Bbm7/Eb                   Ebmaj9
Time is the essence if we plan to stay

Abmaj9      Abm6         Eb/G         F9/A         B+5/Db      B/Db
Death is in stride when  filth is the pride of our hoo---      ome

Am7/D    Bm7/E    Cmaj7/D     Bm7/E

 Instrumental break #2:

rhodes solo on Am9

hammond B3 solo on Am7/D -  Bm7/E

     Am7                  Dm7
Wish I could do something about it
                                     g
     Bm7/E              Fmaj9       Fmaj9
When all i can do is to pray        /   /   /   /........

repeat chorus

repeat instrumental break #1 to end


transcribed by Peter Kruger casparus50@yahoo.ca