From his Facebook page:
$20 Bill (for George Floyd) CHART in D 6/8
Intro:
D
4 Bars
Verse 1:
D Dsus D
Some people die for honor
G D
Some people die for love
G D
Some people die while singing
D A
To the heavens above
D Dsus D
Some people die believing
G D
In the cross on Calvary hill
G
And some people die
D
In the blink of an eye
A D Dsus D A
For a $20 bill
D Dsus D A
Verse 2:
D Dsus D
Some people go out in glory
G D
(Yeah) with the wind at their back
G D
Some get to tell their own story
D A
Write their own epitaph
D Dsus D
Sometimes you see it coming
G D
Sometimes you don’t know until
G
You run out of breath
D
With a knee on your neck
A D Dsus D A
For a $20 bill
Bridge:
Bm G D
O Brother, I never knew you
Bm G D
And now I never will
Bm G D
But I, I make this promise to you
Em G A
I’ll remember you still
Verse 3:
D Dsus D
Take, eat – let this be our communion
G D
It’s time to break the bread
G D
Do this in remembrance
D A
Just like the good book said
D Dsus D
Sometimes the wine is a sacrament
G D
Sometimes the blood is just spilled
G
Sometimes the law
D
Is the devils’ last straw
A Bm
The future unfulfilled
A Bm
Like the dream they killed
A D Dsus
For a $20 bill
D Dsus D G D
By Tom Prasada-Rao 5/28/20 Silver Spring MD
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via the NY Times:
On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life.
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