Who Will Answer chords by Ed Ames

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7XVcZ-OVx8

Intro:
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?


Chorus:
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?


Chorus:
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!