Who Will Answer

F G F C G C Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu.....jah! Verse - C C From the canyons of the mind we wander on and stumble blindly Am Through the often-tangled maze of starless nights and sunless days F While asking for some kind of clue or road to lead us to the truth G C But who will answer? Verse - C C Side by side two people stand together vowing hand-in-hand Am That love's imbedded in their hearts but soon an empty feeling starts F To overwhelm their hollow lives and when they seek the hows and whys G C Who will answer? Verse - Am Am On a strange and distant hill a young man's lying very still Em His arms will never hold his child because a bullet running wild F Has struck him down. And now we cry "Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?" G C But who will answer? Verse - Am Am High upon a lonely ledge a figure teeters near the edge Em And jeering crowds collect below to egg him on with, "Go, man, go!" F But who will ask what led him to his private day of doom G C And who will answer? F G C Am If the soul is darkened by a fear it cannot name F G C Am If the mind is baffled when the rules don't fit the game F G F C G C Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will an.....swer? F G F C G C Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu.....jah! --Capo 1st fret / chords in brackets-- Verse - C# - told C C# In the rooms of dark and shades the scent of sandalwood pervades Am A#m The colored thoughts in muddled heads reclining in the rumpled beds F F# Of unmade dreams that can't come true and when we ask what we should do G G# C C# Who... Who will answer? Verse - A#m Am A#m 'Neath the spreading mushroom tree the world revolves in apathy Em Fm As overhead, a row of specks roars on, drowned out by discotheques F F# And if a secret button's pressed because one man has been outguessed G G# C C# Who will answer? Verse - A#m Am A#m Is our hope in walnut shells worn 'round the neck with temple bells Em Fm Or deep within some cloistered walls where hooded figures pray in halls? F F# Or crumbled books on dusty shelves or in our stars, or in ourselves G G# C C# Who will answer? F F# G G# C C# Am A#m If the soul is darkened by a fear it cannot name F F# G G# C C# Am A#m If the mind is baffled when the rules don't fit the game F F# G G# F F# C C# G G# C C# Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will an....................swer? F F# G G# F F# C C# G G# C C# Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu....................jah!