I Had No Right

INTRO: G


God of the poor man, this is how the day began
D                              G          Am
Eight co-defendants, I, Daniel Berrigan
        F               C                Am
Oh, and only a layman’s batch of Napalm
              F
We pulled the draft files out
   Dm                 G
We burned them in the parking lot
F                         C                   Em
Better the files than the bodies of children


CHORUS:
         C                  Am          D    G
I had no right, but for the love of you___
         C                  Am          D
I had no right, but for the love of you___


G
Many roads led here, walked with the suffering
D                                G   Am
Tom in Guatemala, Phillip in New Orleans
           F              C                Am
Oh, it’s a long road from law to justice
          F
I went to Vietnam
  Dm                   G
I went for peace, they dropped their bombs
F                         C                  Em
Right where my government knew I would be


CHORUS:
         C                  Am          D    G
I had no right, but for the love of you___
         C                  Am          D       Am
I had no right, but for the love of you___


BRIDGE:
           F             Am
And all my country saw
                 F
Were priests who broke the law


G
First it was a question, then it was a mission
D                               G      Am
How to be American, how to be a Christian
           F                          C                Em
Oh, if the law is their cross and the cross is burning


CHORUS:
            C               Am          D    G
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love of you___
            C               Am          D
Hey hey hey hey he hey, the love of you___


G
God of the just, I’ll never win a peace prize
D                               G    Am
Falling like Jesus, now let the jury rise
         F                C               Am
Oh, it’s all of us versus all that paper
     F                      Dm              G
They took the only way they know, who is on trial today
  F                  C              Em
Deliver us unto each other, I pray


CHORUS:
         C                  Am          D    G
I had no right, but for the love of you___
          C                Am            D
And every trial I stood, I stood for you___


G
Eyes on the trial
8 a.m. arrival
Hands on the bible