THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH

THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH
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WAH - WAH
(words and music:George Harrison)

Wah-Wah - you've given me a wah-wah
And I'm thinking of you
And all the things that we used to do
Wah-wah - wah-wah - wah-wah

Wah-wah - you made me such a big star
Being there at the right time
Cheaper than a dime
Wah-wah - wah-wah - wah-wah

You don't see me crying
You don't hear me sighing

Wah-wah - now I don't need no wah-wah's
And I know how sweet life can be
So I'll keep myself free of 
Wah-wah - wah-wah - wah-wah


MY SWEET LORD
(words and music:George Harrison)

My sweet Lord, my Lord, my sweet Lord
I really want to see you
I really want to be with you
I really want to see you Lord but it takes
so long - my Lord

My sweet Lord, my Lord, my sweet Lord

I really want to know you
I really want to go with you
I really want to show you Lord that it 
won't take long my Lord.

My sweet Lord, my Lord, my sweet Lord.


AWAITING ON YOU ALL 

You don't need a love in
You don't need a bed pan
You don't need a horoscope or a microscope 
To see the mess you're in.
If you open up your heart you will see what I mean
You've been polluted so long 
But here's a way for you to get clean

By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see
Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.

You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas.
You don't need to designate or to emigrate
Before you can see Jesus.
If you open up your heart.
then you will see he is right there
He always was and will be
He'll relieve you of all your cares

By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see
Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.

You don't need a church house, 
And you don't need no Temple
And you don't need no rosary beads or them books to read
To know that you have fallen.
If you open up your heart then you'll know what I mean
We've been kept down so long
Someone's thinking that we're all green.

The Pope owns 51 percent of General Motors
By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see
Chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.


THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT


IT DON'T COME EASY


BEWARE OF DARKNESS
(words and music:George Harrison)

Watch out now, take care 
Beware of falling swingers,
Dropping all around you,
The pain that often mingles in your fingertips
Beware of Darkness

Watch out now, take care,
Beware the thoughts that linger,
Winding up inside your head.
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night,
Beware of sadness.

It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for.

Watch out now, take care, 
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks.
As each unconscious sufferer wanders aimlessly,
Beware of MAYA

Watch out now, take care, 
Beware of greedy leaders.
They'll take you where you should not go.
While weeping Atlas cedars
They just want to grow.
Beware of darkness.


WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS 
(words and music:George Harrison)

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping 
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you 
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps 
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all...
Still my guitar gently weeps.


George: "A couple of numbers from Leon.."


JUMPIN' JACK FLASH

I was born in a cross fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain
But it's alright now in fact it's a gas
And it's alright
I'm Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas

I was raised by a toothless bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back
But it's alright now in fact it's a gas
And it's alright
I'm Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas

But it's alright now in fact it's a gas
And it's alright
I'm Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas

I was drowned I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw them bled
I was frowned at the crumbs of a crust of a bread
I was crowned with a spike right through my head
But it's alright now in fact it's a gas
And it's alright
I'm Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas


YOUNG BLOOD

I saw her standing on the corner
A yellow ribbon in her hair
I couldn't stop myself from calling
Well look at that, look at that
Look at that, look at that

Young blood, young blood, young blood
I can't get you out of my mind

I couldn't sleep without crying
And I saw her riding with her boy
All I know my heart was crying
You're the one, you're the one
You're the one, you are the one
Young blood, young blood, young blood
I can't get you out of my mind

I told her that I was righteous
I tried to walk but I was lame
I tried to talk but I just stood
What's your name, what's your name
What's your name, what's your name

Young blood, young blood, young blood
I can't get you out of my mind


HERE COMES THE SUN
(words and music:George Harrison)

Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright
Little darling, it's been a long calm lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since 

it's been here.
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say
it's alright


Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since 
it's been here.
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say
it's alright.

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling, I feel like ice slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since
it's been clear.
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say
it's alright.


A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL
(Words and Music by Bob Dylan)
1963 Warner Bros. Inc
 Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it,
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH,
IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY
Bob Dylan
 
Well, I ride on a mail train, baby,     can't buy a thrill
I been up all night, leanin' on the window sill
Well, if I die on top of the hill
Well, if I don't make it mama, you know my baby will
 
 
Don't the moon look good mama, shinin' through the trees
Don't the brakemen look good mama, flaggin' down the double E's
Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea
But don't my gal look fine when she's comin' after me
 
 
Now the wintertime is coming, the windows are filled with frost
I went to tell everybody, but I could not get across
I wanna be your lover baby, I don't wanna be your boss
Don't say I never warned you when your train gets lost
 
 
Each quarter note is donated by a .
Therefore, A...   equals one whole bar.


BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand?
How many times must the cannon balls fly before they are forever banned?
The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
The answer is a-blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? 
How many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? 
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, 
The answer is blowin' in the wind


How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? 
How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? 
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, 
The answer is blowin' in the wind. 


MR. TAMBOURINE MAN 

CHORUS:
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you

Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming ...CHORUS

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped
My hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my bootheels to be wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it...CHORUS

Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone
It's just escaping on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time
It's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing ...CHORUS

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy bench
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow ...CHORUS


JUST LIKE A WOMAN

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately     I   see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls


Chorus:

She takes just like a woman, yes, she does

She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.


Queen Mary, she's my friend.
Yes I believe I'll go see her again.
Noboby has to guess,
That baby can't be blessed,
'Till she finally sees that she's like all the rest.
With her fog,
Her amphetamines
And her pearls

Chorus

Bridge :

       G#7
It was raining from the first


And I was dying of thirst

     E
So I came in here

        G#7
And you long time curse hurts

                        A
But whats worse is this pain in here

B        B7         B  
 I can't stay in here

B        B7   B
Ain't it   clear that 

Verse 3
I just can't fit.
Yes I believe it's time for us to quit.
And when we meet again,
Introduced as friends,
Please don't let on that you knew me when,
I was hungry,
And it was your world then.

Chorus   | A E A B | E


SOMETHING 
(words and music:George Harrison)

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she looks
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how.


BANGLA DESH
(words and music:George Harrison)

My friend came to me
With sadness in his eyes
Told me that he wanted help
Before his country dies

Although I couldn't feel the pain
I knew I had to try
Now I'm asking all of you
Help us save some lives!

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
Never seen such a distress
Now won't you lend your hand 
And understand
We got to relieve  Bangla Desh

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh
Such a great disaster
I don't understand 
But it sure looks like a mess
I never known such distress
Please don't turn away
I wanna hear you say:
"Relieve the people of Bangla Desh!"

We got to relieve Bangla Desh

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh 
Though it may seen so far 
from where we all are
It's something we can't neglect
That suffering I can't neglect
Now won't you give some bread
Get the starving fed
We got to relieve Bangla Desh

Relieve the people of Bangla Desh
We got to relive Bangla Desh


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