I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

Billy Taylor / Nina Simone: Silk & Soul (1967)

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	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I knew	how	it would	feel	to be	free,

	D	A	D	A	E	B7	E7
	I	wish	I could	break all the	chains	holding	me.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I could	say	all the	things that	I should	say,

	F#dim	A	C#7	F#m	F#dim	D	E9sus4	A
	Say 'em	loud,	say 'em	clear,	for the	whole	round world to	hear.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I could	share	all the	love that's	in my	heart,

	D	A	D	A	E	B7	E7
	Re	move	all the	bars that	keep	us a	part.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	you could	know	what it	means	to be	me,

	F#dim	A	C#7	F#m	F#dim	D	E9sus4	A
	Then you'd	see	and a	gree that	every	man	should be	free.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I could	give	all I'm	long	in' to	give.

	D	A	D	A	E	B7	E7
	I	wish	I could	live like I'm	lon	gin' to	live.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I could	do	all the	things that	I can	do,

	F#dim	A	C#7	F#m	F#dim	D	E9sus4	A
	Though I'm	way	over	due	I'd be	star	tin' a-	new.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I	wish	I could	be	like a	bird	in the	sky.

	D	A	D	A	E	B7	E7
	How	sweet	it would	be if I	found	I could	fly.

	D	A	C#7	F#m	A7	D	E9	A
	I'd	soar	to the	sun	and look	down	at the	sea.

	F#dim	A	C#7	F#m
	Then I'd	sing '	cos I	know, yeah,

	A	C#7	F#m
Then I'd	sing	'cos I	know, yeah,

	A	C#7	F#m	D	E9sus4	A
Then I'd	sing	'cos I	know, I'd	know	how it	feels.