G D/F# Em7 D 
G D/F# Em7
[Verse] 
GD/F# Why are we looking down
Em7D On our sisters and brothers?
GD/F#Em7D Isn't love, all that we got?
GD/F# Don't we know everyone's
Em7D Got a father and mother?
E7 The day we know we're all the same
G/A [Verse] 
GD/F# Look around there are too many of us crying
Em7D And not enough love to go around
GD/F# What a waste, another day
Em7D Another good one dying
E7 But I know that the world will change
G/A [Chorus] 
G D/F#EmDG D/F# Why can’t we just get along?
EmDG D/F# If loving one another's wrong
EmD Then how are we supposed to
E7G/A Get close to each other?
GD/F# We gotta make that change, yeah
Em7D Why can’t we just get along?
 
G D/F# Em7 D
[Verse] 
GD/F# What a waste it would be to deny somebody
Em7D Of a chance to be theirselves
GD/F#Em7D What a waste it would be if we hurt for nothing?
E7 But I know that the world can change
G/A [Chorus] 
G D/F#EmDG D/F# Why can’t we just get along?
EmDG D/F# If loving one another's wrong
EmD Then how are we supposed to
E7G/A Get close to each other?
GD/F# We gotta make that change, yeah
 [Bridge] 
F#Bm7 I know we could break apart
Am7D7Gmaj7 We don’t have to go that way
Gm7G D/F# Em D Not today
 [Chorus] 
G D/F#EmDG D/F# Why can’t we just get along?
EmDG D/F# If loving one another's wrong
EmD Then how are we supposed to
E7G/A Get close to each other?
GD/F# We gotta make that change, yeah
EmD