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Type: Chords & Lyrics, etc.

Version: 1

Created by: Bagus

Created: 9/3/2025

Updated: 9/3/2025

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What's Goin on

Chords & Lyrics, etc. · v1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s

Piano (Cm blues scale)

Intro horn line: f  dcd, f dcd, f dcd, c g.

Ebmaj7                                                Cm

Mother, mother, There's too many of you crying

Ebmaj7                                                Cm

Brother, brother, brother, There's far too many of you dying

Fm                                                                              Bb7

You know we've got to find a way, To bring some lovin' here today, yeah

Father, father, We don't need to escalate

You see, war is not the answer, For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way, To bring some lovin' here today

Fm                    Bb7                              Fm                    Bb7

Picket lines and picket signs, Don't punish me with brutality

Fm                    Bb7

Talk to me, So you can see

   Ebmaj7                                    Cm                      Ebmaj7                  Cm

Oh, what's going on (What's going on), What's going on (What's going on)

Bmaj7       (organ)

Bmaj7      

Bb7 (doo doo dit dee doo)    (piano)

Mother, mother, Everybody thinks we're wrong

Oh, but who are they to judge us, Simply 'cause our hair is long

Oh, you know we've got to find a way, To bring some understanding here today

Picket lines and picket signs  Don't punish me with brutality

Come on talk to me, So you can see

What's going on (What's going on) Yeah, what's going on (What's going on)

Bmaj7      

Bmaj7      

Bb7 (doo doo dit dee doo)

Bmaj7      

Bmaj7      

Bb7 (doo doo dit dee doo)

  interlude...  

Tell me what's going on (What's going on)

I'll tell you, what's going on (What's going on)

Right on, baby, right on

Right on, baby

Right on, baby, right on

etc