Intro
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Verse 1
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Wake up every - body, no more sleeping in bed, 
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No more backwards thinking, time for thinking ahead, 
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The world has changed so very much from what it used to be, 
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There is so much hatred, war and poverty 
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         Woh - oh, oh - oh! 
 
Verse 2
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Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way, 
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Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say, 
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They're the ones who's coming up, and the world is in their hands, 
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When you teach the children, teach 'em the very best you can 
 
Chorus
Bb      C           C7/Bb    Am    D7 
    The world won't get   no bet - ter... 
Gm         C7sus2      Fmaj7          F7 
  ...If we just let it be,   no - no, no -no, 
Bb      C           C7/Bb    Am   D7            Gm7 
    The world won't get   no bet -ter, we gotta change it, yeah, 
C7sus2                F    C7sus2   F    C7sus2 
      ...Just you and me 
 
Verse 3
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Wake up all the doctors, make the old people well, 
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They're the ones who suffer, and who catch all the hell, 
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They don't have so very long be - fore their Judgment Day, 
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Won't you make them happy be - fore they pass away? 
 
Verse 4
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Wake up all the builders, time to build a new land, 
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I know we can do it, if we all lend a hand, 
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The only thing we have to do is put it in our minds-----, 
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Surely things will work out?  They do it every time 
 
Chorus
Bb      C           C7/Bb    Am    D7 
    The world won't get   no bet - ter... 
Gm         C7sus2      Fmaj7             F7 
  ...If we just let it be,    No, no, n' no-no, no-no! 
Bb      C           C7/Bb    Am   D7            Gm7 
    The world won't get   no bet -ter, we gotta change it, yeah, 
C7sus2               F   C7sus2   F    C7sus2 
     ...Just you and me 
 
Coda
           F                 C7sus2    F    C7sus2 
Change it, yeah, (Change it, yeah!) 
             F    C7sus2   F 
Just you and me,           change it, yeah, 
 
C7sus2                F                    C7sus2 
      Can't do it a - lone, 
(Change it, yeah,       ...can't do it a - lone!) 
 
            F           C7sus2                  F 
I need some help y'all,      ...can't do it a - lone, 
                 C7sus2     F       C7sus2 
(Can't do it a - lone!)     Yeah,   yeah, 
F        C7sus2             F       C7sus2 
Wake up,         ...every - body, 
F        C7sus2             F       C7sus2 
Wake up,         ...every - body, 
F        C7sus2                 F   C7sus2   F 
Get up,       ...get up, ...get up!