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LEGEND: [Chorus]: - The following paragraph in bold is to be sung by everyone, as loud as humanly possible. [Chorus] - Go back to the indicated Chorus and, once again, scream your fucking hearts out. Capo on x:d fret - Often used to match the key on the original recording. Also used to make the song easier to play and/or sing. Tuning: - Some songs recorded with different tunings than EBGDAE should also be played with that tuning. See induvidual songs for info on different tunings. /x (eg. "/b/e" etc.) - Lower case indicates bass-notes. Keep holding the last chord and just play these as bass-notes. If you have a friend nearby, get her or him to play these.

INDEX:

Troubles Will Be Gone ....................... 43 Pistol Dreams ............................... 44 The Gardener ................................ 45

TRADITIONAL/MISC..............5 Generalens Visa .............................. 6 I Ain't Marching Anymore ..................... 7 Viva La Quinta Brigada ....................... 8 Whiskey In the Jar ........................... 9 Fields of Athenry ........................... 10 Wild Rover .................................. 11 Molly Malone ................................ 12 The Internationale .......................... 13 Internationalen ............................. 14 There is Power in a Union ................... 15 Solidarity Forever .......................... 16 Sådan är Kapitalismen ....................... 17

ALISTAIR HULETT..............18 Playing For the Traffic ..................... 19 Lads of the B.L.F ........................... 20 Destitution Road ............................ 21 Yuppietown .................................. 22 Among Proddy Dogs and Papes ................. 23 Buy us a Drink .............................. 24 The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away .. 25

CHUMBAWAMBA..................26 Charlie ..................................... 27 Not The Girl I Used To Be ................... 28 This Girl ................................... 29 The Day the Nazi Died ....................... 30

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN............31 Born to Run ................................. 32 Thunder Road ................................ 33 Hungry Heart ................................ 34 Dancing In the Dark ......................... 35 Darkness on the Edge of Town ................ 36 Bobby Jean .................................. 37 Atlantic City ............................... 38

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH.....39 The Dreamer ................................. 40 The Wild Hunt ............................... 41 Honey Won't You Let Me In ................... 42

TWO GALLANTS ................ 46 Nothing To You .............................. 47 Long Summer Day ............................. 48 Fail Hard to Regain ......................... 49 You Losin' Out .............................. 50 Age of Assassins ............................ 51 The Deader .................................. 52 Ribbons Round My Tongue ..................... 53 Las Cruces Jail ............................. 54 Despite What You've Been Told ............... 55 My Madonna .................................. 56 Reflections of the Marionette ............... 57 Some Slender Rest ........................... 58 Steady Rollin' .............................. 59 Two Days Short Tomorrow ..................... 60

LEVELLERS ................... 61 English Civil War ........................... 62 The River Flow .............................. 63

BRIGHT EYES / CONOR OBERST .. 64 Haile Selassie .............................. 65 Jejune Stars ................................ 66 Well Whiskey ................................ 67 Take It Easy (Love Nothing) ................. 68 Make War .................................... 69 Spoiled ..................................... 70 Classic Cars ................................ 71 Reinvent the Wheel .......................... 72 Everything Must Belong Somewhere ............ 73 Bowl of Oranges ............................. 74 Road to Joy ................................. 75 Landlocked Blues ............................ 76 Another Travelling Song ..................... 77 First Day of My Life ........................ 78 Old Soul Song ............................... 79 At the Bottom of Everything ................. 80 Train Under Water ........................... 81 Poison Oak .................................. 82 If the Brakeman Turns My Way ................ 83 Four Winds .................................. 84 Lua ......................................... 85 We Are Nowhere (And It's Now) ............... 86 Moab ........................................ 87 Cape Canaveral .............................. 88

Danny Callahan ............................. Get-Well-Cards ............................. Nikorette .................................. Milk Thistle ............................... Souled Out! ................................ Loose Leaves ...............................

89 90 91 92 93 94

MISCHIEF BREW ............... 95 The Midnight Special 2002 .................. 96 Mr. Crumb .................................. 97 The Barrel ................................. 98 Gimme Coffee Or Death ...................... 99 Nomads Revolt ............................. 100 Reinvention of the Printing Press ......... 101 A Rebel's Romance ......................... 102 Liberty Unmasked .......................... 103 All Used Up ............................... 104 Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell ......... 105 For an Old Kentucky Anarchist ............. 106 Departure Arrival ......................... 107 The Lowly Carpenter ....................... 108 Anti-Lullaby .............................. 109 Old Tyme Mem'ry ........................... 110 Against ................................... 111 Every Town Will Celebrate ................. 112 What Reason Have They to Dance? ........... 113 Coffee, God And Cigarettes ................ 114 Hod Did I Get Out Alive? .................. 115 A Liquor Never Brewed ..................... 116 Boycott Me ................................ 117 Farewell Good Fellows ..................... 118 Gratitude and Thanks ...................... 119 Love and Rage ............................. 120 Rambler's Ghost ........................... 121 Thanks Bastards ........................... 122 Devil of a Time ........................... 123 Save a City... ............................ 124 Weapons ................................... 125

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ......... 126 Store ..................................... California Song ........................... Letter From Belgium ....................... Palmcorder Yajna .......................... Attention All Pickpockets ................. Alpha Rats Nest ........................... Going to Georgia .......................... Old College Try ........................... You or Your Memory ........................ Color in Your Cheeks ...................... Song for Dennis Brown ..................... Up the Wolves .............................

127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138

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No Children ................................ 139 Best Ever Death Metal Band From Denton ..... 140 Wild Sage .................................. 141 Woke Up New ................................ 142 The Day the Aliens Came .................... 143 Broom People ............................... 144 The Monkey Song ............................ 144 This Year .................................. 145 Dance Music ................................ 146 Dinu Lapatti's Bones ....................... 147 Love Love Love ............................. 148 Fall of the Star High School Running Back .. 149 Jenny ...................................... 150 Source Decay ............................... 151 See America Right .......................... 152 Commandante ................................ 153 The Sign ................................... 154 The Boys are Back in Town .................. 155 Game Shows Touch Our Lives ................. 156 Heretic Pride .............................. 157 Michael Meyers Resplendent ................. 158 Your Belgian Things ........................ 159 Pigs That Ran Straightway Into the Water, Triumph of ................................. 160 Sax Rohmer #1 .............................. 161

Filosofens Hammare ......................... 182 Kälek ...................................... 183 1982 ....................................... 184 Dom Är Ledsna .............................. 185

TOM FRAMPTON ............... 186 Bring Da Ruckus ............................ 187 Conor Oberst Eat Your Heart Out ............ 188 A Brief Polemic ............................ 189 How Mikey and Me Almost Died Hitching to Chicago .................................... 190 Guatemalan Rain ............................ 191 Best of Intentions ......................... 192 Honesty Is Not Fucking Emo ................. 193 When I'm Driving You Home .................. 194 For The Cronic House Kidz .................. 195 Drinking Alone Again ....................... 196 Sectarian Communist Party Blues ............ 197 A Song of Unapologetic Optimism ............ 198 Johnny / Sally ............................. 199

FLOGGING MOLLY ............. 200 NATIONALTEATERN.............162 Barn av Vår Tid ............................ 163 Bängen Trålar .............................. 164

JÄVLARANAMMA................165 Käth ....................................... 166 Riktiga Killar ............................. 166 Blanda Inte Sprit och GHB .................. 167 Från Far Till Son .......................... 167 Jävlaranammas Sittningsvisa ................ 168 Flong Nya Loafers .......................... 168 Fyllefloskler .............................. 169 Hästtransporten ............................ 170 Pickadulverman ............................. 171 Surt Sa Räven (Hellre) ..................... 172 Trött och Spytt ............................ 173 Karneval I Stan ............................ 174 King of the Sittring ....................... 174 Hur Fan Ska Jag Hävda Mig Nu ............... 175 Kex och Shorts ............................. 175 Håll Mig När Snuten Går Förbi .............. 176 Min Ungdom ................................. 177 Ett Varningens Ord ......................... 178 Angelique Wiklunds Boxer ................... 179 Bernts Salonger ............................ 180 Äntligen Måndag ............................ 181

Drunken Lullabies .......................... 201 Black Friday Rule .......................... 202 Death Valley Queen ......................... 203 Every Dog Has It's Day ..................... 204 Factory Girls .............................. 205 Far Away Boys .............................. 206 If I ever leave this world alive ........... 207 The Ol' Beggars Bush ....................... 208 Rebels of The Sacred Heart ................. 209 The Son Never Shines on Closed Doors ....... 210 The Worst Day Since Yesterday .............. 211 Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon .............. 212 The Likes of You Again ..................... 213 The Wanderlust ............................. 214 Whistles The Wind .......................... 215 Within a Mile Of Home ...................... 216

AGAINST ME! ................ 217 Thrash Unreal .............................. 218 Pints of Guinness Makes You Strong ......... 219 Untitled ................................... 220 Walking is Still Honest .................... 221 Baby, I'm an Anarchist ..................... 222 Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious ......... 223 We Did It All For Don ...................... 224 Eight Full Hours of Sleep .................. 225 Joy ........................................ 226

What We Worked For ........................ 227 We Laugh At Danger (And Break All the Rules) .......................................... 228 Reinventing Axl Rose ...................... 229 Tonight We're Gonna Give it 35% ........... 230

THE POGUES ................. 231 The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn ................ Body of an American ....................... The Auld Triangle ......................... The Broad Majestic Shannon ................ Dirty Old Town ............................ If I Should Fall From Grace With God ...... Fairytale of New York ..................... The Old Main Drag ......................... Sally MacLennane .......................... The Irish Rover ...........................

232 233 234 235 236 236 237 238 239 240

MAUD LINDSTRÖM ............. 241 Publikens Klagolåt ........................ 242 Strategivisa för Kärlekskritiker .......... 243

HELLO SAFERIDE / SÄKERT .... 244 I don't sleep well ........................ 245 Loneliness Is Better When You're Not Alone 246 Saturday Nights ........................... 247 Middleclass ............................... 248 I Wonder Who Is Like This One ............. 249 San Fransisco ............................. 250 My Best Friend ............................ 251 If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die .................................. 252 Highschool Stalker ........................ 253 2006 ...................................... 254 2006 (Svenska) ............................ 255 The Quiz .................................. 256 Någon Gång Måste Du Bli Själv ............. 257 Är Du Fortfarande Arg? .................... 258 Vi Kommer Att Dö Samtidigt ................ 259 Ditt Kvarter .............................. 260 I Thought You Said Summer Is Going To Take the Pain Away ................................. 261 Anna ...................................... 262 Det Här Är Vad Dom Säger .................. 263 Och Jag Grät Mig Till Sömns Efter Alla Dar 264 Sanningsdan ............................... 265 Faller Isär ............................... 266

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EELS........................267 Daisies of the Galaxy ...................... 268 Dirty Girl ................................. 269 Hey Man .................................... 270 I Like Birds ............................... 271 Mr. E's Beautiful Blues .................... 272 Packing Blankets ........................... 273

DAN BERGLUND................274 Kampens Väg ................................ 275 Dekadansen ................................. 276 Ombudsmannen ............................... 277 En Örgryteyngling .......................... 278 Våren i Backadalen ......................... 279 De Mördades Fria Republik .................. 280 Mina Herrar Som Räknar Profiter ............ 281 Ballad Till Minnet Av En Kamrat ............ 282 Everts Sista Arbetsdag ..................... 283 Visa Till SAP .............................. 284 Johan och Johanna .......................... 285

BILLY BRAGG.................286 Tank Park Salute ........................... 287 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards ........ 288 Help Save the Youth of America ............. 289 The World Turned Upside Down ............... 290 Between The Wars ........................... 291 There Is Power In a Union .................. 292

OKKERVIL RIVER..............293 Singer-Songwriter .......................... 294 Our Life Is Not A Movie, Or Maybe .......... 295 For Real ................................... 296

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO / BOTAR ............................297 Linoleum ................................... 298 It's A Wonderful Life ...................... 299 As The Footsteps Die Out Forever ........... 300 We Will Fall Together ...................... 301 A Better Place, A Better Time .............. 302 The Big Sleep .............................. 303 Point/Counterpoint ......................... 304 Keasby Nights .............................. 305

Somewhere In The Between ................... 306 We Are The Few ............................. 307 Dear Sergio ................................ 308 Sick And Sad ............................... 309 One Foot On The Gas, One Foot In The Grave . 310 1234 1234 .................................. 311

Pre-Invasion Jitters ...................... 351 The Stars Are My Chandelier ............... 352 Song for the Civil Engineer ............... 352

WEAKERTHANS ................ 312

Survival .................................. 354 People .................................... 355 Little Prince (El Principito) ............. 356

Gifts ...................................... 313 Heart of the Continent ..................... 314 The Reasons ................................ 315 Ulilities .................................. 316 Reconstruction Site ........................ 317 Sun In an Empty Room ....................... 318 My Favourite Chords ........................ 319 Watermark .................................. 320 Manifest ................................... 321 One Great City ............................. 322

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD ....... 353

LARS WINNERBÄCK ............ 357 Vinter över ån ............................ Gråa Dagar ................................ Pollenchock och stjärnfall ................ Balladen om Konsekvenser .................. 18:e Balladen ............................. Tvivel .................................... Julgröten .................................

358 359 360 361 362 363 364

FRANK TURNER ............... 323 I Still Believe ............................ 324 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight .......... 325 Nashville Tennessee ........................ 326 The Fastest Way Back Home .................. 327 Front Crawl ................................ 328 Once We Were Anarchists .................... 329 Romantic Fatigue ........................... 330 Casanova Lament ............................ 331 Dan's Song ................................. 332 Isabel ..................................... 333 The Road ................................... 334 Try This At Home ........................... 335 I Really Don't Care What You Did On Your Gap Year ....................................... 336 Love, Ire And Song ......................... 337 Long Live The Queen ........................ 338 Photosynthesis ............................. 339 The Real Damage ............................ 340 Reasons Not To Be An Asshole ............... 341 I Knew Prufrock Before He Became Famous .... 342 Substitute ................................. 343 S:t Christopher Is Coming Home ............. 344 Thatcher Fucked The Kids ................... 345 Ballad Of Me And My Friends ................ 346

DAVID DONDERO .............. 347

VANDAVEER .................. 365 However Many Takes it Takes ............... 366 A Mighty Leviathan of Old ................. 367

BILLIE THE VISION AND THE DANCERS .................... 368 Overdosing With You ....................... 369

EVAN GREER ................. 370 I Want Something .......................... 371 Punks With Clean Kitchens ................. 372

POSTAL SERVICE / DEATH CAB . 373 I Will Follow You Into the Dark ........... Recycled Air .............................. Sleeping In ............................... This Place Is A Prison .................... Nothing Better ............................

374 375 375 376 377

South of the South ......................... 348 Maybe Separation Makes Us Stronger ......... 349 Less Than the Air .......................... 350

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TRADITIONAL/Misc.

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Generalens Visa by Cornelis Vreeswijk

A D I Flatland bor dom flata, E7 A i Latland bor dom lata D i Krigland bor dom krigiska B7 E7 så där är allting väl A D Dom lata ska vi dräpa, E7 A dom går blott kring och skräpa D Dom flata har vi tänkt oss B7 E7 att vi ska slå ihjäl A E7 A av ideella skäl A D I Slöland bor dom slöa, E7 A i Döland bor dom döa D i Raskland bor dom raska, B7 E7 dom slöar aldrig till A D Dom döda ska vi bränna, E7 A dom vill vi icke känna D Dom slöa ska vi spöa B7 E7 så snart dom sitter still A E7 A sen gör dom som vi vill A D I Krigland bor dom flesta, E7 A dom krigar för det mesta

D Dom kämpar flera år i sträck, B7 E7 sen vilar dom två dar A D Deras medaljer blänker, E7 A dom sitter när dom tänker D Dom sitter på den kroppsdel B7 E7 där hjärnan säte har A E7 A säg kan du gissa var? A D När generaler tala E7 A blir rösterna nasala D Dom stirrar stint på kartorna, B7 E7 sen grips dom av panik A D då blundar dom och pekar, E7 A kommandoropen ekar D Dom lyfter sina kikare B7 E7 och kommer med kritik A E7 A och räknar sina lik A D I Blåland bor dom blåa, E7 A i Gråland bor dom gråa D i Tyskland bor den bruna byxans B7 E7 bleka herremän A D Ser jag den bruna färgen E7 A ryser jag in i märgen

D Och hör du taktfast stöveltramp B7 E7 så är det dom, min vän A E7 A för dom marscherar än!

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I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs D G C C/b D Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans G C C/b D At the end of the early British wars G C The young land started growing F Em The young blood started flowing Am C D But I ain't marchin' anymore G C For I've killed my share of Indians C/b D In a thousand different fights G C C/b D I was there at the Little Big Horn G C I heard many men lying F Em I saw many more dying Am C D But I ain't marchin' anymore Am G It's always the old to lead us to the war C Em A It's always the young to fall C Now look at all we've won Em with the sabre and the gun Am C D Tell me is it worth it all G C For I stole California C/b D from the Mexican land G C C/b D Fought in the bloody Civil War G C Yes I even killed my brothers F Em And so many others Am C D And I ain't marchin' anymore

G C For I marched to the battles C/b D of the German trench G C C/b D In a war that was bound to end all wars G C Oh I must have killed a million men F Em And now they want me back again Am C D But I ain't marchin' anymore Am G It's always the old to lead us to the war C Em A It's always the young to fall C Now look at all we've won Em with the sabre and the gun Am C D Tell me is it worth it all G C For I flew the final mission C/b D in the Japanese sky G C C/b D Set off the mighty mushroom roar G C When I saw the cities burning F Em I knew that I was learning Am C D That I ain't marchin' anymore G C Now the labor leader's screamin' C/b D when they close the missile plants, G C C/b D United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore, G C Call it "Peace" or call it "Treason," F Em Call it "Love" or call it "Reason," Am C D But I ain't marchin' anymore Am C D No I ain't marchin' anymore

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Viva La Quinta Brigada by Christy Moore Intro: C G C Ten years before I saw the light of morning F A comradeship of heroes was laid G From every corner of the world came sailing F C The Fifth International Brigade G They came to stand C beside the Spanish people F To try and stem the rising fascist tide

G C Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor F From Killarney across the Pyrenees he came From Derry came a brave young G Christian Brother F C Side by side they fought and died in Spain G C Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba F With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun G From Dublin to the Villa del Rio Where he fought and died F C beneath the blazing sun

Franco's allies G were the powerful and wealthy F C Frank Ryan's men came from the other side G C Even the olives were bleeding F As the battle for Madrid it thundered on G Truth and love against the force of evil F C Brotherhood against the fascist clan [Chorus]: C F Viva la Quinta Brigada G C No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight C/b Am "Adelante" is the cry around the hillside F G C Let us all them tonight

[Chorus] G C Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco F ed Hitler and Mussolini too G Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers F C Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew G The word came from Maynooth, C " the Nazis" F The men of cloth failed again

[Chorus] G C This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan F Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too G Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar F C Though many died I can but name a few G Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown C and Charlie Donnelly Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney F from the Falls G Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy F C Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill [Chorus]

When the Bishops blessed G the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire As they sailed beneath F C the swastika to Spain

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Whiskey In the Jar

[Chorus]

C As I was going over Am the far famed Kerry mountains, F I met with Captain Farrel C G and his money he was counting. C I first produced my pistol Am and then produced my rapier, F Saying 'Stand and deliver C for I am a bold deceiver'.

C I went into my chamber Am all for to take a slumber, F I dreamt of gold and jewels C G and for sure it was no wonder. C But Jenny drew my charges, Am she filled them up with water, F She sent for Captain Farrel C to be ready for the slaughter.

[Chorus]: G Musha ring dumadoo dumada, C Whack fol the daddy o, F Whack fol the daddy o, C G C There's whiskey in the jar.

[Chorus]

C He counted out his money Am and it made a pretty penny F I put it in my pocket C G and I gave it to my Jenny C She sighed and she swore Am that she never would deceive me F But the devil take the women C for they never can be easy

C G be it Cork or in Killarney. C And if he'd come and me, Am we'd go roving in Kilkenny. F I swear he'd treat me fairer C than my darling sporting Jenny. [Chorus]

C 'Twas early in the morning, Am before I rose to travel F Up comes a band of footmen C G and likewise Captain Farrel C I then produced my pistol Am for she stole away my rapier F But I couldn't shoot the water, C so a prisoner I was taken [Chorus] C If anyone can aid me, Am it's my brother in the army, F If I but knew his station

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Fields of Athenry C By a lonely prison wall, F C G I heard a young girl calling C F G Michael they have taken you away C F For you stole trevalians corn, C G So the young might see the morn G Now the prison ship G7 C lies waiting in the bay C F C Am Low lie the Fields of Athenry C Where once we watched Am G the small free bird fly C F Our love was on the wing, C G We had dreams and songs to sing G Now it's lonely round G7 C the Fields of Athenry C By a lonely prison wall, F C G I heard a young man calling C F G Nothing matters Mary when you're free C F Against the famine and the crown, C G I rebelled, they ran me down

G Now you must raise G7 C our child with dignity C F C Am Low lie the Fields of Athenry C Where once we watched Am G the small free bird fly C F Our love was on the wing, C G We had dreams and songs to sing G Now it's lonely round G7 C the Fields of Athenry

C F Our love was on the wing, C G We had dreams and songs to sing G Now it's lonely round G7 C the Fields of Athenry

C By a lonely harbour wall, F C G She watched the last star falling C F As the prison ship sailed out G against the sky C F But she'll wait and hope and pray, C G For her love in Botany Bay G It's so lonely round G7 C the Fields of Athenry C F C Am Low lie the Fields of Athenry C Where once we watched Am G the small free bird fly

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Wild Rover G I've been a wild rover C For many a year G C I spent all me money D7 G On whiskey and beer G But now I'm returning C With gold in great store G C And I never will play D7 G The wild rover no more D7 And it's no nay never, G C No nay never no more G C Will I play the wild rover, D7 G No never, no more G I went in to an alehouse C I used to frequent G C And I told the landlady D7 G Me money was spent G I asked her for credit, C She answered me "Nay!" G C "Such custom as yours

D7 G I could have any day!" D7 And it's no nay never, G C No nay never no more G C Will I play the wild rover, D7 G No never, no more G I took from me pocket C Ten sovereigns bright G C And the landlady's eyes D7 G Opened wide with delight G She said: "I have whiskeys C And wines on the best! G C And the words that I told you D7 G Were only in jest!"

G C And ask them to pardon D7 G Their prodigal son G And when they've caressed me C As oft times before G C I never will play D7 G The wild rover no more. D7 And it's no nay never, G C No nay never no more G C Will I play the wild rover, D7 G No never, no more D7 And it's no nay never, G C No nay never no more G C Will I play the wild rover, D7 G No never, no more

D7 And it's no nay never, G C No nay never no more G C Will I play the wild rover, D7 G No never, no more G I'll go home to my parents, C Confess what I've done

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Molly Malone C In Dublin's fair city, G Where the girls are so pretty C Em I first set my eyes Dm G On sweet Molly Malone C She wheeled a wheel-barrow G Through streets broad and narrow C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels C G C A-live, a-live, oh' C A-live, a-live, oh, G A-live, a-live, oh C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels C G C A-live, a-live, oh' C She was a fishmonger, G But sure 'twas no wonder C Em For so were her father Dm G And mother before. C They both wheeled a barrow G Through streets broad and narrow C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels

C G C A-live, a-live, oh' C A-live, a-live, oh, G A-live, a-live, oh C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels C G C A-live, a-live, oh' C She died of a fever, G And no one could save her C Em And that was the end Dm G Of sweet Molly Malone. C Now her ghost wheeles her barrow G Through streets broad and narrow C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels C G C A-live, a-live, oh' C A-live, a-live, oh, G A-live, a-live, oh C Em Crying 'Cockles and Mussels C G C A-live, a-live, oh'

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The Internationale (Alistair Hulett version) D A G Arise ye workers from your slumbers A D Arise ye prisoners of want D A G For reason in revolt now thunders A D and at last ends the age of cant. G A D Away with all your superstitions G Em A Servile masses arise, arise! A We'll change henceforth D the old tradition A And spurn the dust to win the prize. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A G A The Internationale Em A Unites the human race. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A Em G The Internationa-le D A D Unites the human race. D A G No more deluded by reaction, A D On tyrants only we'll make war!

D A The soldiers too G will take strike action, A They'll break ranks D and fight no more! G A D And if those cannibals keep trying, G Em A To sacrifice us to their pride, A They soon shall hear D the bullets flying, A We'll shoot the generals on our own side. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A G A The Internationale Em A Unites the human race. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A Em G The Internationa-le D A D Unites the human race. D A G No saviour from on high delivers, A D No faith have we in prince or peer. D A Our own right hand

G the chains must shiver, A D Chains of hatred, greed and fear. G A E'er the thieves will out D with their booty, G Em A And to all give a happier lot. A D Each at his forge must do their duty, A And we'll strike the iron while it's hot. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A G A The Internationale Em A Unites the human race. D G So comrades come rally A D And the last fight let us face D A Em G The Internationa-le D A D Unites the human race.

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Internationalen G C Am Upp trälar uti alla stater, D7 G som hungern bojor lagt uppå. C Am Det dånar uti rättens krater, D7 G snart skall utbrottets timma slå. D A7 D Störtas skall det gamla snart i gruset

A D Slav stig upp för att slå dig fri. D7 G Från mörkret stiga vi mot ljuset, D A7 D från intet allt vi vilja bli. [Chorus]: D7 G C Upp till kamp emot kvalen! D7 G Sista striden det är, Em B A7 D ty Internationalen åt alla lycka bär. D7 G C Upp till kamp emot kvalen! D7 G Sista striden det är, E7 Am G D7 G ty Internationalen åt alla lycka bär. G C Am I höjden räddarn vi ej hälsa D7 G ej gudar, furstar stå oss bi C Am Nej själva vilja vi oss frälsa D7 G och samfälld skall vår räddning bli. D A7 D För att kräva ut det stulna, bröder, A D och för att slita andens band,

D7 G vi smida medan järnet glöder D A7 D med senig arm och kraftig hand. [Chorus] G C Am I sin förgudning avskyvärda, D7 G månn' guldets kungar nå'nsin haft C Am ett annat mål än att bli närda D7 G av proletärens arbetskraft? D A7 D Vad han skapat under nöd och vaka A D utav tjuvarna rånat är, D7 G när folket kräver det tillbaka, D A7 D sin egen rätt det blott begär. [Chorus] G C Am Båd' stat och lagar oss förtrycka, D7 G vi under skatter digna ner. C Am Den rike inga plikter trycka, D7 G den arme ingen rätt man ger. D A7 D Länge nog som myndlingar vi böjt oss, A D jämlikheten skall nu bi lag. D7 G Med plikterna vi hittils nöjt oss D A7 D nu taga vi vår rätt en dag

G C Am Till krigets slaktande vi dragits D7 G Vi mejats ned i jämna led C Am För furstars lögner har vi slagits D7 G Nu vill vi skapa evig fred. D A7 D Om de oss driver, dessa kannibaler, A D mot våra grannar än en gång, D7 G vi skjuter våra generaler D A7 D och sjunger broderskapets sång. [Chorus] G C Am Arbetare, i stad på landet D7 G en gång skall jorden bliva vår. C Am När fast vi knyta brodersbandet, D7 G då lättingen ej råda får. D A7 D Många rovdjur på vårt blod sig mätta, A D men när vi nu till vårt försvar D7 G en dag en gräns för dessa sätta D A7 D skall solen stråla mera klar! [Chorus]

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There is Power in a Union G C G Would you have freedom from wage slavery? D7 G Then in the grand industrial band C G Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free D7 G Then come do your share like a man G There is power, there is power C G in a band of working folk D7 G When they stand hand in hand There's a pow'r, there's a pow'r C G that must rule in every land D7 G One industrial union grand G Would you have mansions C G of gold in the sky D7 G And live in a shack, way in the back? C G Would you have wings up in Heaven to fly D7 G And starve here with rags on your back? G There is power, there is power C G in a band of working folk D7 G When they stand hand in hand There's a pow'r, there's a pow'r C G that must rule in every land D7 G One industrial union grand

G If you've had enough C G of the blood of the lamb D7 G Then in the grand industrial band C G If, for a change, you'd have eggs and ham D7 G Then come do your share like a man

G C G Come all ye workers, from every land D7 G Come the grand industrial band

G There is power, there is power C G in a band of working folk D7 G When they stand hand in hand

G There is power, there is power C G in a band of working folk D7 G When they stand hand in hand

There's a pow'r, there's a pow'r C G that must rule in every land D7 G One industrial union grand

There's a pow'r, there's a pow'r C G that must rule in every land D7 G One industrial union grand

Then we our share C G of this earth shall demand D7 G Come on, do your share like a man

G If you like sluggers C G to beat off your head D7 G Then don't organize, all unions despise C G If you want nothing before you are dead D7 G Shake hands with your boss and look wise G There is power, there is power C G in a band of working folk D7 G When they stand hand in hand There's a pow'r, there's a pow'r C G that must rule in every land D7 G One industrial union grand

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Solidarity Forever G When the union's inspiration Through the workers' blood shall run C There can be no power greater G D Anywhere beneath the sun G Yet what force on earth is weaker Bm G Em Than the feeble strength of one Am D7 G For the Union makes us strong G Solidarity forever, C G Solidarity forever Em Solidarity forever, Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G Is there aught we hold in common With the greedy parasite C Who would lash us into serfdom G D And would crush us with his might? G Is there anything left to us Bm G Em But to organize and fight? Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G Solidarity forever, C G Solidarity forever

Em Solidarity forever, Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G It is we who ploughed the prairies, Built the cities where they trade C Dug the mines and built the workshops G D Endless miles of railroad laid G Now we stand outcast and starving Bm G Em 'Midst the wonders we have made Am D7 G But the union makes us strong G Solidarity forever, C G Solidarity forever Em Solidarity forever, Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G All the world that's owned By idle drones is ours and ours alone C We have laid the wide foundations, G D Built it skyward stone by stone G It is ours, not to slave in, Bm G Em But to master and to own Am D7 G While the union makes us strong G Solidarity forever,

C G Solidarity forever Em Solidarity forever, Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G They have taken untold millions That they never toiled to earn C But without our brain and muscle G D Not a single wheel can turn G We can break their haughty power Bm G Em Gain our freedom when we learn Am D7 G That the Union makes us strong G Solidarity forever, C G Solidarity forever Em Solidarity forever, Am D7 G For the union makes us strong G In our hands is placed a power Greater than their hoarded gold C Greater than the might of armies G D Magnified a thousand fold G We can bring to birth a new world Bm G Em From the ashes of the old Am D7 G For the Union makes us strong

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Sådan är Kapitalismen C F Hon var fattig, hon var ärlig C G och en stolthet för sin bygd, C F för en rik blev hon begärlig C G C och så tog han hennes dygd. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön. C F Men en dag så får hon höra C G att han är på nytt på jakt, C F hon sa : Se men inte röra C G C men det skull´ hon aldrig sagt. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön. C F Hon tar tåget in till staden C G för att glömma bort hans svek

C F nu går hon på esplanaden, C G C tio spänn för kärleks-lek. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön. C F I ett fattigt torp I gläntan C G hennes mor med stor ion C F frossar lax och ål på räntan C G C av sin dotters profession. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön. C F Flickan drar där fram I storsta´n C G klädd I lakväska och tyll C F som en missanad julgran, C G C vilken underbar idyll. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön.

C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön.

C F Hon har mardrömmar I sömnen, C G lite fnatt nI vet så där C F så hon kastar sig I Strömmen C G C skyll det på den hon höll kär. C F Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön. C F Hon till stranden snart blev bärgad C G klädd I sjögräs av sitt bad C F steg hon upp så blek och härjad C G C stämde upp sin röst och kvad C F - Sådan är kapitalismen C G otack är den armes lön. C F De´e´ dom rikas paradis men C G C ingen hör en fattigs bön !

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ALISTAIR HULETT

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Playing For the Traffic C You could have seen him any day F C up the back of Martin Place Am In a battered Sunday suit G that’s seen far better days F C Blowing on a mouth harp G Am with the kind of wit and grace C That would bring a smile F G to the face of a broken clock C And there was not a verse or chorus F C the old bugger didn’t know Am From Mother Kelly’s Doorstep G to The Banks of the Ohio F C The typists and the tellers G Am didn’t want to bloody know C F Dealing with their dose G of future shock [Chorus]: C He was playing for the traffic F C and the nine to fivers Am G Tooraloo you’re bound for Botany Bay

C And he gave more to this world F C than all the penny-pinching bastards Am That turned around G C and looked the other way (Am G Am C G Am G Am Dsus2 Am G Am) C Well, I stood a while to listen F C and he played the thing with ease Am But the crowd that day was tighter G than a Pom at a wine and cheese F C Maybe they were hard up G Am or just plain hard to please C F G But no one put a single cent his way C So I reached into my pocket F C to even up the score Am And dropped a pile of change G into the tin plate on the floor F C When you work the streets G Am they treat you like a whore C F G And no one ought to ever feel that way

(Am G Am C G Am G Am Dsus2 Am G Am) C He was playing when I left him, F C with a new crowd to convince Am I often look out for him G but he’s not been back there since F C G Am Did anybody notice, does anybody wince C At some old digger F G picking through the trash C In this land of milk and honey F C where there’s more than enough for all Am Why did he spend his whole life G with his back against the wall F C Did he fight in two world wars G Am to wind up with sweet fuck-all C F Working on the street G for a bit of stash [Chorus] x2 F C G C

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Lads of the B.L.F D A G D A D D Now times have changed A you can't deny G D They've got our backs A D up against the wall D A Workers' power must organise G D Or there'll be no workers' A G power at all A G A Corporations rule this land G Em A Democracy's a sham sir D A They rob us blind at every turn G D A D And then don't give a damn sir G Here's to the boys D in the building trade A Under the flag G A of the old Stockade G Down with the right D Bm and up with the left A And here's to the lads A D of the B.L.F.

D They bore the brunt A of the bosses' wrath G D To stand for the rights A D of the working class D A Their cause was bagged in paper G D That I wouldn't use A G to wipe my arse A G A Bob Hawke and his traitor crew G Em A Conspired with Crabb and Cain sir D A To push through anti-union laws G D A D For corporation's gain sir G Here's to the boys D in the building trade A Under the flag G A of the old Stockade G Down with the right D Bm and up with the left A And here's to the lads A D of the B.L.F.

D A The rich get richer by the day G D A D The cancer of the nation D A While workers' wages fall behind G D A D The spiral of inflation A G A Poverty and homelessness G Em A Are not the only norm sir D A Stand up now for workers' rights G D A D And socialist reform sir G Here's to the boys D in the building trade A Under the flag G A of the old Stockade G Down with the right D Bm and up with the left A And here's to the lads A D of the B.L.F.

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Destitution Road D In the Year Of The Sheep G D and the burnin’ time D Bm A They cut our young men in their prime D G D The old Scots way was a hangin’ crime D A D For the Gaels of Caledonia A There’s a den for the fox, D a hedge for the hare G D A nest in the tree Bm A for the birds of the air D But in a’ Scotland G D there’s no place there A D for the Gaels of Caledonia D G D But there’s no use getting’ frantic D G A It’s time tae hump yer load D G D Across the wild Atlantic D A D On the Destitution Road D G D The bailiff came wi’ the writ and a’ D Bm A And the gallant lads of the Forty Twa D They drove ye oot G D in the sleet and snaw

D A D The Gaels of Caledonia A When yer house was burned D and yer crops as well G D Ye stood and wept Bm A in the blackened shell D G D And the winter moor was a living hell A D For the Gaels of Caledonia D G D But there’s no use getting’ frantic D G A It’s time tae hump yer load D G D Across the wild Atlantic D A D On the Destitution Road D The plague and the famine G D they dragged ye doon D Bm A As ye made yer way tae Glesga toon D Where ye’d heard o’ a ship G D that was sailin’ soon D A D For the shores of Nova Scotia A And ye sold yer gear, D ye paid yer fare G D Wi’ yer heid held high Bm A though yer heart was sair D G D And ye bid farewell forever mair

D A D Tae the glens of Caledonia D G D But there’s no use getting’ frantic D G A It’s time tae hump yer load D G D Across the wild Atlantic D A D On the Destitution Road D The land was cleared G D and the deal was made D Bm A Noo an English lord in a tartan plaid D He struts and stares G D as the memories fade D A D Of the Gaels of Caledonia A And he hunts the deer D in the lonely glen G D Bm A That once was home to a thousand men D And the wind on the moor G D sings a sad refrain D A D For the Gaels of Caledonia D G D But there’s no use getting’ frantic D G A It’s time tae hump yer load D G D Across the wild Atlantic D A D On the Destitution Road

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Yuppietown D People who live round here G they don’t have that much D They make do with things G others wouldn’t even touch D People who live round here G they work in the factory D And they don’t have to choose G they’re ruled by necessity A And they better watch out Em G There’s a new breed taking over A Driving us out Em They’ve been giving us G the old once over Em They wanna tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown G/B Tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown D People who live round here G how it used to be D Natter to your neighbour on the street or stop in

G for a cup of tea D People who live round here G they like to have a beer and all D But since the old pub changed hands G they can’t get in in overalls A And they better watch out Em G There’s a new breed taking over A Driving us out Em They’ve been giving us G the old once over Em They wanna tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown G/B Tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown D People who live round here G they’re gonna have to push off west D Funny how the powers that be they always think G they know what’s best D People who live round here G they’ve got the place in such a state D People who live round here

G pull down the price of real estate A And they better watch out Em G There’s a new breed taking over A Driving us out Em They’ve been giving us G the old once over Em They wanna tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown G/B Tear the place down G D and turn it into Yuppietown

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Among Proddy Dogs and Papes D A As a child I was raised D on salted oats G A D And tales of the savage past D G A I learned to love the drifting rain D A And winter’s icy blast D G D And all day long on the Holy Isle G A Far out in Lamlash Bay A D G A I walked the hills in creaking shoes D G D Where the bones of the old ones lay G D And at night the head of Wallace bled G D A On solemn floral drapes A D And the flower of Scotland G A bloomed again D G D Among Proddy dogs and Papes D A I was taught in school D how Britannia’s rule G A D Was forced on the Scots of old D G A Bought and sold by a parcel of rogues D A For a handful of English gold

D Till our fate was sealed G D on Culloden field G A When the blood of the clans ran down A D G A Through the twisted sea of history D G D To the streets of Glasgow town G D And at night the head of Wallace bled G D A On solemn floral drapes A D And the flower of Scotland G A bloomed again D G D Among Proddy dogs and Papes D A On the long summer nights D when the northern lights G A D Burned the sky like acetylene D The prods and tykes G A they fought on the dykes D A That ran round the housing scheme D With sticks and stones G D we broke our bones G A For the sake of the good old cause A D That has kept our country G A bound and chained

D G D Under British laws G D But at night the head of Wallace bled G D A On solemn floral drapes A D And the flower of Scotland G A bloomed again D G D Among Proddy dogs and Papes D A And the old men lilt D how the blood was spilt G A D On the banks of the river Boyne D G A Three hundred years of hate and fear D A Clutched like a miser’s coin D G D And at Ibrox and at Parkhead too G A On the first day of the year A D See full-grown men G A drag it all out again D G D While the fans on the terraces cheer G D And at night the head of Wallace bled G D A On solemn floral drapes A D And the flower of Scotland G A bloomed again D G D Among Proddy dogs and Papes

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Buy us a Drink D Here’s to the soldiers A Bm that march to the wars D With lovely tin hats G A and long woollen drawers A The Colonel says ‘Right lads, D G over the top!’ D Then he stands back to watch A D while the poor buggers drop A Buy us a drink and D G I’ll sing you a song D Of the chances you missed Bm A and the love that went wrong D If you can’t stand a schooner G stand us a ten D I’ll knock it straight down A D and I’ll sing it again D There’s girls in the parlour, A Bm there’s girls in the bars D They paint on the smile G A so you don’t see the scars

A They get lots of offers D G and not much respect D For raisin’ three kids A D on a government cheque

A Then off with his wad D G to recline by the pool D He leaves you to rot A D in this shitty old hole

A Buy us a drink and D G I’ll sing you a song D Of the chances you missed Bm A and the love that went wrong D If you can’t stand a schooner G stand us a ten D I’ll knock it straight down A D and I’ll sing it again

A Buy us a drink and D G I’ll sing you a song D Of the chances you missed Bm A and the love that went wrong D If you can’t stand a schooner G stand us a ten D I’ll knock it straight down A D and I’ll sing it again

Bm A Drink it down, boys down D A As long as there’s life in the day D For you’ll get no more sup G D when your number is up Bm A D And they lay you to rot in the clay

D It’s the taste of the whisky A Bm to tell you the truth D Has shortened my days G A and wasted my youth A Be kind to the health sir, D G do it no harm D Put a pint of the black A D on the end of my arm

D Then in comes the landlord A Bm so fat and content D Comes round in his Volvo G A to pick up the rent

A Buy us a drink....

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The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away C F You came to this country C G in fetters and chains F C Outlaws and rebels Am G with numbers for names C F And on the triangle C G were beaten and maimed F G C Blood stained the soil of Australia C F Dookies and duchesses, C G flash lads and whores F C You worked their plantations Am G and polished their floors C F Lived in their shadows C G and died in their wars F G C Blood stained the soil of Australia. G C C/G Does it quicken your heart beat F C Am To see tar and concrete F C Cover the tracks of Am G the old bullock dray G C C/G Have you grown so heartless F C Am To christen it progress

F C When the swaggies have all Am G C waltzed Matilda away C F Driven like dogs C G from your own native home, F C Hardship and poverty Am G caused you to roam C F C G Over the bracken and over the foam: F G C Blood stained the soil of Australia. C F Then in the fever C G for fortune and fame F C You caused the poor blacks Am G to suffer the same C F Imprisoned on missions C G or hunted for game F G C Blood stained the soil of Australia. G C C/G Does it quicken your heart beat F C Am To see tar and concrete F C Cover the tracks of Am G the old bullock dray G C C/G Have you grown so heartless F C Am To christen it progress F C When the swaggies have all

Am G C waltzed Matilda away

C F Its two hundred years C G since you came to this land, F C Betrayed by the girl Am G with the black velvet band C F And still to this day C G you don’t understand: F G C Blood stained the soil of Australia. C F KoorI and white, C G old Australian and new F C Am G Brothers and sisters of every hue C F The future is ours, C G take the wealth from the few F G C And raise the Red Flag in Australia. G C C/G Let it quicken your heart beat F C Am The roads at your own feet F C Am G Travel it lightly and travel it well G C C/G And don’t speak of success F C Am Or christen it progress F C Til the swaggies can all G C waltz Matilda as well...

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CHUMBAWAMBA

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Charlie D All of nature in its place By hand of the designer G D Bm G Comes our Charlie spins the world A D From here to Asia Minor D In between the Platypus And perfect Aphrodite G D Bm G Charlie come with opposing thumb A D To question the Almighty D Over the river and over the sea Through holy storm and thunder G D Bm G Steer a course for a brave new world A D Of common sense and wonder D See the dancing President

G D Bm G Find yourself a partner and A D We'll swing into tomorrow D Over the river and over the sea Through holy storm and thunder G D Bm G Steer a course for a brave new world A D Of common sense and wonder D Armed with truth we're stepping out Come the worldwide party G D Bm G Charge your glass and face the world A D We'll drink a toast to Charlie D Over the river and over the sea Through holy storm and thunder G D Bm G Steer a course for a brave new world A D Of common sense and wonder

The congressman and teacher G D Bm G Jumpin' to the music of A D The wealthy Midwest preacher D Charlie come with a brand new dance Get on the floor and follow

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Not The Girl I Used To Be C G Wondering, have I given up dreaming? Am Come down from the ceiling F G I won't do that again C G Thinking my misspent history Am Mistakes to teach me F G I won't do that again C G Dreams I kept as a child Am Kept me quiet and hypnotised F Cooked away my valentines G C Served myself up every night G Couldn't see me for the trees Am And all that hallmark poetry F G C I'm not the girl i used to be G Am F G I'm not the girl i used to be

C G Trying to break the family ties Am Chocolate hearts and tacky lies F Heard a thousand crappy lines G C And I believed them every time G So I beg to disagree Am Love's not taking all of me F G C I'm not the girl i used to be G Am F G I'm not the girl i used to be C

C G Wondering, have I given up dreaming? Am Come down from the ceiling F G I won't do that again C G Thinking my misspent history Am Mistakes to teach me F G I won't do that again

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This Girl C G Am C F C F G C G Am C This girl, she didn't turn out F C quite the way she was supposed to do F G Ooh C G Am C This girl, she got bored of F C all the things they brought her up F G C to say, she never ment them anyway G

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G C fighting wars like these G Am Running past the tidy houses C F C F pulling faces, this material world G C couldn't tempt this girl

C G Happy families round the Am C supermarket check-out F C She loves to be the odd one out F G C the party girl who stayed upstairs

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F G C Now she entertains the world Am and all it's mates F G C But she doesn't fit in F G C Am Everybody thinks this girl is great F But she's lacing all the party drinks C with venom from a poison pen G Am C F C F G C G Am C This girl, she made a habit of F C habitually lying F G Does everybody's head in C G She knows what happens Am C when the next stop that you see F C It's not the one that everyone F G C expected it to be, this girl G

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The Day the Nazi Died D G We're taught that after the war D A The nazis vanished without a trace D G But batallions of fascists A D Still dream of a master race D G The history books they tell of D A Their defeat in forty-five D G But they all come out of the woodwork A D On the day the nazi died D G They say the prisoner at Spandau D A Was a symbol of defeat D G Whilst Hess remained imprisoned A D Then the fascists they were beat D G So the promise of an aryan world D A Would never materialize D So why did they all G Come out of the woodwork A D On the day the nazi died

D G They're taking over the board rooms D A And they're fat and full of pride D G And they all came out of the woodwork A D On the day the nazi died D G So if you meet with these historians D A I'll tell you what to say D G Tell them that the nazis D A Never really went away D G They're out there burning houses down D A And peddling racist lies D G And we'll never rest again A D Until every nazi dies

D G The world is ridden by maggots D A the maggots are getting fat D G They're making a tasty meal A D Of all the bosses and bureacrats

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Born to Run E In the day we sweat it out A in the streets of a runaway B American dream E At night we ride through mansions of glory A B in suicide machines A E/G# Sprung from cages out on highway 9, F#m Chrome wheeled, fuel injected E/G# E E9 and steppin' out over the line Ohh A Baby this town E/G# rips the bones from your back F#m E/G# It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap E C#m We gotta get out while we're young A `Cause tramps like us, B E baby we were born to run A A

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E Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to A B guard your dreams and visions E Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims

A and strap your hands B across my engines A E/G# Together we could break this trap F#m We'll run till we drop, E/G# E E9 baby we'll never go back, Ohh A E/G# Will you walk with me out on the wire F#m `Cause baby I'm just a scared E/G# and lonely rider E C#m But I gotta find out how it feels A I want to know if love is wild B E babe I want to know if love is real A B7sus-B E A B7sus B Dsus D Dsus D Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones Gsus G scream down the boulevard Asus A The girls comb their hair Asus A in rearview mirrors Csus C Csus C And the boys try to look so hard Dsus D The amusement park rises Dsus D bold and stark as Gsus G Kids are huddled on the beach Gsus G in a mist Asus A I wanna die with you Wendy

Asus A on the streets tonight Csus C Csus C In an everlasting kiss E The highway's jammed with broken heroes A Bsus7 B on a last chance power drive E Everybody's out on the run tonight A Bsus7 but there's no place left to hide A Together Wendy E/G# we'll live with the sadness F#m I'll love you with all E/G# E E9 the madness in my soul, Ohh A E/G# Someday girl I don't know when F#m we're gonna get to that place E/G# E Where we really want to go C#m and we'll walk in the sun A But till then tramps like us B E C#m baby we were born to run A Ah honey tramps like us B E C#m baby we were born to run A Come on Wendy tramps like us B E baby we were born to run A

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Thunder Road E A E A E G#m A B E A E A screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves Like a vision she dances A across the porch as the radio plays B Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, E A hey that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again, E B I just can't face myself alone again E Don't run back inside, darlin, A E you know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking that A Maybe we ain't that young anymore Show a little faith, B there's magic in the night E You ain't a beauty A but hey you're all right E B Oh and that's alright with me E You can hide beneath your covers C#m and study your pain, E Make crosses from your lovers, A throw roses in the rain E G#m Waste your summer praying in vain A B for a savior to rise from these streets E C#m Well I'm no hero that's understood E All the redemption I can offer girl

A is beneath this dirty hood E G#m With a chance to make it good somehow A B hey what else can we do now except E A Roll down the window and let the wind E blow back your hair Well the night's busting open G#m A these two lanes can take us anywhere B We got one last chance to make it real E A to trade in these wings on some wheels E Climb in back, heaven's waiting B down on the tracks E C#m Oh come take my hand E We're ridin out tonight A to case the promised land E G#m Oh oh thunder Road, A B oh thunder road, oh thunder road E A/c# Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun E Hey I know it's late, A we can make it if we run E G#m A Oh oh thunder road, sit tight, B E take hold, thunder road A Well I got this guitar B E and I learned how to make it talk C#m And my car's out back if you're ready

A B to take that long walk A B From your front porch to my front seat G#m C#m Door's open but the ride ain't free A A/G# F#m Well I know you're hungry for words E that I ain't spoken B Well tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken E There were ghosts in the eyes A E of all the boys you sent away E They haunt this dusty beach road G#m in the skeleton frames of A burned-out Chevrolets They scream your name at night B in the street E Your graduation gown A lies in rags at their feet G#m And in the lonely cool before dawn A you hear their engines roaring on But when you get to the porch, B A they're gone on the wind F#m so Mary climb in A It's a town full of losers B E I'm pulling out of here to win E B E A E B A B E B E A E B A A/G# A/F# A/E E

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Hungry Heart C Am7 Dm7 G7sus C Am7 Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack Dm7 I went out for a ride G7sus and I never went back C Like a river that don't Am7 know where it's flowing Dm7 I took a wrong turn and G7sus I just kept going C Am7 Everybody's got a hungry heart Dm7 G7sus Everybody's got a hungry heart C Lay down your money Am7 and you play your part Dm7 G7sus Everybody's got a huh-uh-un-gry heart C Am7 Dm7 G7sus C Am7 I met her in a Kingstown bar Dm7 G7sus We fell in love I knew it had to end C We took what we had Am7 and we ripped it apart Dm7 G7sus Now here I am down in Kingstown again

C Am7 Everybody's got a hungry heart Dm7 G7sus Everybody's got a hungry heart C Lay down your money Am7 and you play your part Dm7 G7sus Everybody's got a huh-uh-un-gry heart Eb Eb

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C Am7 Everybody needs a place to rest Dm7 G7sus Everybody wants to have a home C Don't make no difference Am7 what nobody says Dm7 G7sus Ain't nobody like to be alone C Am7 Everybody's got a hungry heart Dm7 G7sus Everybody's got a hungry heart C Lay down your money Am7 and you play your part Dm7 G7sus C Everybody's got a huh-uh-un-gry heart

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Dancing In the Dark G Em I get up in the evening G Em G and I ain't got nothing to say Em I come home in the morning G Em C I go to bed feeling the same way Am I ain't nothing but tired C Am G I'm just tired and bored with myself Em Hey there baby G Em D I could use just a little help D You can't start a fire, C can't start a fire without a spark Am C This gun's for hire, even if Am G we're just dancing in the dark G Em Messages keep getting clearer, G Em radio's on and I'm moving G round the place Em I check my look in the mirror G Em I wanna change my clothes, C my hair, my face Am Man I ain't getting nowhere,

C Am G I'm just living in a dump like this Em There's something happening somewhere G Em D baby I just know there is D You can't start a fire, C can't start a fire without a spark Am C This gun's for hire, even if Am G we're just dancing in the dark

Em I need a love reaction. G Em D Come on now baby gimme just one look D You can't start a fire sitting round C crying over a broken heart Am C This gun's for hire even if Am D we're just dancing in the dark You can't start a fire

Em G You sit around getting older C D There's a joke here somewhere Em and it's on me G I'll shake the world off my shoulders C D Come on baby the laugh's on me G Em Stay on the streets of this town G Em and they'll be carving you G up all right Em They say you gotta stay hungry – G Em hey baby I'm just about C starving tonight Am I'm dying for some action, C Am I'm sick of sitting 'round here G trying to write this book

worrying about your C little world falling apart Am C This gun's for hire even if Am G we're just dancing in the dark

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Darkness on the Edge of Town G

C G C G

G Well they're still racing C out at the Trestles G But that blood it never burned C in her veins G Now I hear she's got C a house up in Fairview G C And a style she's trying to maintain G C G Em Well if she wants to see me G You can tell her that C G Em I'm easily found G C Tell her there's a spot out G Em `neath Abram's Bridge D Tell her there's a darkness Dm7 C on the edge of town D There's a darkness C G C on the edge of town G C Everybody's got a secret Sonny G C Something that they just can't face

G Some folks spend their C whole lives trying to keep it G They carry it with them C every step that they take G C G Em Till some day they just cut it loose G C G Em Cut it loose or let it drag `em down G C Where no one asks any questions G Em Or looks too long in your face D Dm7 C In the darkness on the edge of town D There's a darkness C G C on the edge of town

G C Lives on the line G Em where dreams are found and lost G C I'll be there on time G Em and I'll pay the cost G C For wanting things G Em that can only be found D Dm7 C In the darkness on the edge of town D There's a darkness C G C on the edge of town

G C Some folks are born into a good life G C Other folks get it anyway anyhow G C I lost my money and I lost my wife G Them things don't seem to C matter much to me now G C Tonight I'll be on that hill G Em `cause I can't stop G C I'll be on that hill G Em with everything I got

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Bobby Jean

A We told each other

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that we were the wildest, E the wildest things we'd ever seen D Now I wished you would have told me

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A Well I came by your house the other day, E your mother said you went away D She said there was nothing

I wished I could have talked to you B7 Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean A

that I could have done B7 There was nothing nobody could say A Now me and you We've known each other E ever since we were sixteen D I wish I would've known I wished I could have called you B7 Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean A

E and all the miles in between D And I'm just calling one last time B7 not to change your mind D But just to say I miss you baby, E good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean A

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D Now we went walking in the rain F#m talking about the pain from the world we hid D Now there ain't nobody no where A no how gonna ever understand me E the way you did A Maybe you'll be out there

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A Now you hung with me when all the others E turned away turned up their noise D We liked the same music, we liked the same bands B7 we liked the same clothes

on that road somewhere E In some bus or train traveling along D In some motel room there'll be a radio playing B7 And you'll hear me sing this song A Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you

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Atlantic City Em G Well, they blew up the chicken man C G in Philly last night Em G C G Now, they blew up his house, too Em Down on the boardwalk G C G they're gettin' ready for a fight Em Gonna see what them G C G racket boys can do Em G Now, there's trouble bustin' C G in from outta state Em G C G And the D.A. can't get no relief Em G Gonna be a rumble out C G on the promenade Em G And the gamblin' commission's C D hangin' on by the skin of his teeth Em G Well now, ev'rything dies, C G baby, that's a fact Em G But maybe ev'rything that dies D Em someday comes back G Put your makeup on, C G fix your hair up pretty Em G C G And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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Em G Well, I got a job and tried C G to put my money away Em But I got debts G C G that no honest man can pay Em G So I drew what I had C G from the Central Trust Em G And I bought us two tickets C D on that Coast City bus Em G Now, baby, ev'rything dies, C G honey, that's a fact Em G But maybe ev'rything that dies D Em someday comes back G Put your makeup on, C G fix your hair up pretty Em G C G And meet me tonight in Atlantic City D C Now our luck may have died Em and our love may be cold C D Em But with you forever I'll stay C We're goin' out Em where the sand's turnin' to gold C G Put on your stockin's baby,

C G `cause the night's gettin' cold C G And now ev'rything dies, C G baby, that's a fact C G But maybe ev'rything that dies D C someday comes back Em G C G Em G Now, I been lookin' for a job, C G but it's hard to find Em Down here it's just winners G C and losers and don't get caught G on the wrong side of that line Em G Well, I'm tired of comin' out C G on the losin' end Em G So, honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do C G a little favor for him Em G But maybe ev'rything that dies D Em someday comes back G Put your makeup on, C G fix your hair up pretty Em G C G And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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The Tallest Man On Earth

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The Dreamer Dm G C F x2 Dm G I'm just a dreamer C F but I'm hanging on Dm G C F Though I am nothing big to offer Dm G I watch the birds, C F how they dive in then gone E It's like nothing F Gsus4 G in this world's ever still Dm G And I'm just a shadow C F of your thoughts in me Dm G But sun is setting, C F shadows growing Dm G A long cast figure C F will turn into night E It's like nothing F Gsus4 in this world ever sleeps

C F G C Tossing aside from your birches crown /b Am F Gsus4 G Just enough dark to see Dm G C F How you're the light over me Dm G C F Dm G And by your side, girl, C F where the acres grow Dm G C F Into the strong and stunning meadow Dm G A cowboy stumbling C F in the finest field E F And nothing good out there Gsus4 G won't be old

Am F Gsus4 G And why can't that always be C F G C Tossing aside from your birches crown /b Am F Gsus4 G Just enough dark to see Dm G C F How you're the light over me Dm G C F x5

C F Oh sometimes the blues G C C/B is just a ing bird Am F Gsus4 G And why can't that always be C F G C Tossing aside from your birches crown /b Am F Gsus4 G Just enough dark to see

G

How you're the light over me C F Oh sometimes the blues G C /b is just a ing bird Am F Gsus4 And why can't that always be

C F G C /b Am F Gsus4 G x2

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C F sometimes the blues G C C/B is just a ing bird

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The Wild Hunt Capo on 2nd Em*: 020033 G D/f# Em Em*, Am G Am G D/f# Em Em*, Am G

D/f# D/f#

G D/f# There is a crow moon comin in Cadd9 where you keep looking out G Em7 It is the hollow month of march Dsus4 now sweeping in G Let's watch phenomenon's D/f# Cadd9 that rise out of the darkness now G Within the light Dsus4 G she is my storming heroine G D/f# And all machine's abandoned by Cadd9 the ancient races stand G Em7 I hear them humming down below Dsus4 in hollow earth G D/f# Oh hell I guess I know no while Cadd9 I will go under too G Dsus4 But just for now I let the spring G and storm return G I left my heart to

/c /b /a G the wild hunt a-comin Em7 Dsus4 I live until the call Am G And I plan to be forgotten D/f# when I'm gone G Yes I'll be leavin' in the fall G

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Em Em*, Am G D/f# G D/f# And I will sleep out in the glade Cadd9 just by the giant tree G Just to be closer Em7 Dsus4 when my spirit's pulled away G D/f# I left a nervous little boy Cadd9 out on the trail today G He's just a mortal Dsus4 G to the shoutin' cavalcade G I left my heart to /c /b /a G the wild hunt a-comin Em7 Dsus4 I live until the call Am G And I plan to be forgotten D/f# when I'm gone

G Let's open up the windows D/f# Cadd9 have satan departin' now G And we'll be even Em7 Dsus4 when the blues fall down like hail G D/f# Hell I don't even care no more Cadd9 about Cadejo now G If he's a white one Dsus4 G or a black one on the trail G I left my heart to /c /b /a G the wild hunt a-comin Em7 Dsus4 I live until the call Am G And I plan to be forgotten D/f# when I'm gone G Yes I'll be leavin' in the fall G D/f# Em Em*, Am G Am G D/f# Em Em*, Am G

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Honey Won't You Let Me In If standard tuning, then E* A/c Asus2 e|--0----x----0--| B|--0----x----0--| G|--2----2----2--| D|--4----2----2--| A|--2----3----0--| E|--0----x----x--| Intro: E* E Asus2

E* E Asus2 A/c

C#m Now the snow will fall A and the lover's call E Will be drenched out by B the shatterin' of birds C#m As the seasons shift, A lonely minds will drift E B On the ocean in a build above its lore C#m As I knock your door A from inside once more E How I wish a soothing breeze B would let me in C#m Shake my tambourine A at your glowing dreams E B E So honey won't you let me in, oh E* E Asus2

E* E Asus2 A/c

C#m As we cease to know A where our feet will go E We won't see the ribbons B tied up in the pines C#m A Branches will untie every mumblin' lie E Every frailed word in your B lullaby is heard C#m Oh when I catch the force A of our first divorce E How I wish the turning sunset B could record C#m Blow my engine steam A at your glowin' dreams E B E So honey won't you let me in, oh E* E Asus2

E B To be building up our muscles in distract C#m Put me on the mornin' ship A and I will take the trip E To return with all the treasures B of our past C#m A It will always seem like a glowin' dream E B E So honey won't you let me in E B E I said honey won't you let me in, oh E* E Asus2

E* E Asus2 A/c

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C#m Now the dust will rise, A dress the open skies E Just a gallery of words B we've used too much C#m It's a feathers weight A but what if it's too late

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Troubles Will Be Gone Bm Oh, when it's god I see in headlights D kneeling down on frozen highways G And salvation in white knuckles A on a wheel Bm And the deer is in the audience D by the border of the darkness G where forgiveness grows A and slowly winds away G Well there's a question somewhere asked A with all the answers inside G But I'll never find the kid A before she's gone Bm Well the day is never done, D but there's a light on where you're sleeping G So I hope somewhere A D that troubles will be gone

Bm But now the ghost is in my jacket D and my stairs were built in anger G Winding forcefully A but end up where I stand Bm But there are no rocks or salt D and nails, I low my cannons

G And salvation in the beauty A of some brace Bm And the deer is gone without me D to the valley of surrender G There is still another world A along it's tracks

not to kill you G Simply lost the words A to tell you I'm afraid

G But there's that sign up to a hill A to see the far of the land G Well the sign will say, A "There's still a higher one" Bm And now the day is slowly setting, D and the light's on

G And there's a sign up to a hill A to see the far of the land G Well the sign will tell you, A "Turn if there's a one" Bm Still the day is never done, D but there's a light on

where you're sleeping G So I hope somewhere A D that troubles will be gone

where you're sleeping G So I hope somewhere A D that troubles will be gone Bm Oh darling, when it's you I see in headlights, D driving down the golden highway

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Pistol Dreams D G A Bm G2 A2 d |--0--0--0---0--0--0--| A |--0--0--0---2--0--4--| F#|--0--1--1---0--5--3--| D |--0--0--2---0--5--2--| A |--0--2--0---2--0--0--| D |--0--0--0---0--5--0--| capo 6th D G So deep into the orchard D G you will stumble on the skin of snakes D G so let me know your nerves, A we'll lose the road. D G And I will boil the curtains D G to extract the drugs of springtime D G A but the unicorn it stirs up as a mule. G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon D G And far out on the ocean D G with a colored nail I'll force the whale D G we'll tattoo all our crimes A across his back. D G Can't you see him swim up D G to the harbor of the city with the D G A Shiver in our buildings as we drown.

G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon Bm G D G Cause we will paint our house with water Bm G A To have an outlet for the sigh. Bm G D G And as I never see the changes, Bm G A I will be useless as I try, D as I say baby don't cry. D G You said I look just like Messiah D G on a cloudy night just findin' out. D The wise men lost G A but still they found a son D G And deep into the orchard D G you will lead me by the skin of snakes, D G A to let me know my sentence as they dry. G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon

D As I say baby don't cry. Bm The colors of the water streams D been floatin' through our pistol dreams G A a long time. Bm And I never went to see the fall D before the barrel builder call. G A Forgive, oh me. G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon G2 D A2 I said throw me in the fire now, c'mon Bm G D G Cause we will paint our house with water Bm G A To have an outlet for the sigh. Bm G D G And as I never see the changes, Bm G A I will be useless as I try, D as I say baby don't cry.

Bm G D G Cause we will paint our house with water Bm G A To have an outlet for the sigh. Bm G D G And as I never see the changes, Bm G A I will be useless as I try,

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D D/c# Bm Bm7 Bm7* G A A* d |--0--0---0---0--0----0--5--4-----| A |--0--0---2---0--0----2--0--0-----| F#|--0--0---0---0--3----1--3--3-----| D |--0--0---0---0--0----0--2--2-----| A |--0--4---2---2--2----2--0--0-----| D |--0--x---0---0--0----0--x--x-----| capo 6th

G A D I know the spy is going to tell you G A D It's not my flag up in the pole G A D So now he's buried by the lilies G A So I could stay forever more D in your eyes, babe

Bm7 -

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The Gardener

D (riff)

D D/c# Bm Bm7 I sense a runner in the garden G A Although my judgment's known to fail D D/c# Bm Bm7 Once built a steamboat in a meadow G A Cause I'd forgotten how to sail G A D I know the runner's going to tell you G A D There ain't no cowboy in my hair G A D So now he's buried by the daisies G A So I could stay the tallest man D in your eyes, babe D D/c# Bm Bm7 I sense a spy up in the chimney G A From all the evidence I've burned D D/c# I guess he'll read it Bm Bm7 in the smoke now G A And soon to ashes I'll return

D/c# Bm Bm7 I sense a leak inside my phone now G A From all the lies I have told D D/c# Bm Bm7 I know he has your private number G A And soon he'll make that vicious call G A D I know the leak is going to tell you G A D There ain't no puppy in your leash G A D So now he'll fertilize the roses G A So I could stay the king you see D In your eyes, babe A D In your eyes, babe

G A I find it soothing I'm afraid G A D Now there is no need for suspicion G A D There ain't no frog kissing your hand G A D I won't be lying when I tell you G A That I'm a gardner I'm a man D In your eyes babe A D In your eyes, babe A Bm In your eyes babe.

D D D/c# So now we're dancing Bm through the garden G A And what a garden I have made D D/c# And now that death Bm will grow my jasmine

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TWO GALLANTS

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Nothing To You D Bm A x8 D A Bm A Well my kind's been around forever D A Bm A And I claim to be one of the few D A And the lost cause of words Bm A walks away with my nerves D A Bm A Cause I'm gay as a choir boy for you D A Bm A You got hair that recalls me of rivers D A Bm A Runs softly while you dream of you D A Bm But your heart is so cold that it shivers A D Cause all that I know is A Bm A I'm nothin to you D Bm A x4 D A Bm A And I followed you into the party D A Bm A That no one invited me to D A Bm And I got so damn drunk and retarded A D I fell down the stairs A Bm A and I puked in my shoe D A Bm A But I watched you forget your belongings D A Bm A And belongings you've got quite a few D A Bm I filled up your bags with my longings

A And searched through D A Bm A this whole wide city for you D Bm A x4 D And we'll walk 'neath A Bm A the street lamps forever D A Bm A You'll say 'you remind me of you' D A Bm It's so damn cliché that it's clever A D It's so fuckin' false, A Bm A you think that it's true D A Bm A Cause I heard that you got you a lover D A Bm A And lovers you've got one or two D A Bm But you can't tell one from the other A D A Bm A Now mama, now your nothing to you D Bm A x4 D And it's down by the riverside, Bm A (Wasting away) D It's down by the riverside, Bm A (Beating the clay) D And it's down by the riverside, Bm A (Wasting away)

D It's down by the riverside, Bm A (Beating the clay) D Bm A It's down by the riverside, Wasting away D It's down by the riverside Bm A Beating the clay D Bm A It's down by the riverside, Wasting away D It's down by the riverside Bm A Beating the clay D Bm A It's down by the riverside, Wasting away D A Bm A And I'll watch your frail features adieu D It's down by the riverside, Bm A Beating the clay D A Bm A Cause mama, your nothing to you D Bm A Yeah, down by the riverside, Wasting away D A Bm A And I'll watch your frail features adieu D Yeah down by the riverside, Bm A Beating the clay D A Bm A Cause mama, your nothing to you D A Bm A Yeah, mama, your nothing to you D A Bm A Yeah, mama, your nothing to you D Bm A x4

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Long Summer Day E Well, the summer day B E make a white man lazy A

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A E Well, all I've ever known is poor F#m E Owe my skin to the country store F#m E Don’t own my walls, my roof, my door B But he tells me I'm free A E But I fight the will to live F#m E Hell might take but heaven gives F#m E It's the only one so I'll forgive B And I'm not the one to grieve E And the summer day B E make a white man lazy E B E He sits on his porch killing time A E A I gotta work to feed my wife and baby E B E I work so god damn hard that it's a crime A E Well, I went down to the polling place F#m The white men there E just laughed in my face F#m E Saying boy, this ain’t no nigger's race B You best get on your way A E Sir, I believe I've got the right F#m Said you ain’t got nothing

E if you ain’t white F#m E And I thought I said get out of sight B Well, what was I to say? E B E And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E He sits on his porch killing time A E A I gotta work to feed my wife and baby E B E I work so god damn hard that it's a crime A E When I was 'bout the age of five F#m E Watched my daddy burned alive F#m E They cut him low and they hung him high B Swayin' in the breeze A E The last words I heard him say F#m E Before they stole his life that day F#m Was forgive them lord, E they've gone astray B Now take me to my knees E B E And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E He sits on his porch killing time Bm But the summer day F#m A E make a nigger feel crazy Bm F#m E B Might make me do something out of line A E Bm Bm

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A E Well, I don’t know but I heard tell F#m E Of a furnace below a place called hell F#m E And who would catch me if I fell? B Who would pray for me? A E But one thing I see for sure F#m E It's hot as hell up here I know F#m E And the devil lives right down the road B It's all the same to me A B E And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E He sits on his porch killing time Bm But the summer day F#m A E make a nigger feel crazy Bm F#m E B Might make me do something out of line C#m A But if you should see my wife E B Tell her that I won’t be home tonight C#m A So don’t leave on the light E A I got a little business down the road C#m A And If I'm dead by sunrise E B Kiss my baby girl for me E A It ain’t life if it ain’t free C#m B E I got a mighty burden to unload

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Fail Hard to Regain C G F C C C G C C G F C C G C C C G F C Well once I knew a railway girl C G C C Her age was seventeen C G F C I gave her all I had to give C G F F But the baggage of my dreams C G F C Stole me from the games we played C G F F Scorned me for my mast C G F C And if she's gone she lingers on C G C C I beg you please don't ask C G F C T'was on her dark March evening C G C C Southbound I did ride C G F My head was out the window C C G F F When I found her at my side C G F C Asked where I was going to C G F F I told but where I came C G For the jails in which F C I've done my time C G C C I fail hard to regain

C G F C Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so C G C C To watch you so afraid C G You know that you've F C been real to those C G F F When realness should be feigned C G Her eyes gone wide, F C "Alive," she cried C G F F Does pleasure ever last? C G F C We live to see, but patiently C G C C I beg you please don't ask D A G D She took me in despite my sins D A D D Fed me tea and such D A G D And as she fell just like a child D A G G I crumbled 'neath her touch D A G D I held my breath in fear to weep D A G G For the fragments of my brain D A G D See each day's but a moment that D A D D I fail hard to regain

D A G G Impatience in his feet D A G D And captives of this paltry trade D A G G We curse our mortal past D A G D Forgive us though we all must go D A D D And where to please don't ask C G F C And now I am a misspent man C G C C Who knows not where he's been C G F C And though so sapped with suffering C G F F The worst is yet unseen C G F C Renounce myself for further wealth C G F F I take each breath in vain C G F C Still haunted by that railway girl C G C C I fail hard to regain C G F C G F C G F (palm C G F

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D A G D But as it goes the people it throws D A D D Our values to the street D A G D Whole world came and saint's gaze

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You Losin' Out Am I can't forget the day, G C baby you walked away, Am I can't forget the day, G C mama you walked away, C Can't forget the day C7 that you walked away, F When you come back next time, here to stay, Am That’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama you’re losin’ out. Am Well it was early one morning G C you come draggin’ home, Am Well it was early one morning G C you come draggin’ home, C C7 It was early morning, dragging home F say forgive me daddy for I gone wrong, Am That’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama you’re losin’ out.

Am Well you left that time G C and you ain’t gonna leave no more, Am Yeah, you left that time G C and you ain’t gonna leave no more, C Well you left that time, C7 ain’t gonna leave no more, F I’m putting a lock on my back door, Am That’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama you’re losin’ out. Am Well I followed my baby G C to her barren place, Am Yeah I followed my baby G C to her barren place, C Well I followed my baby C7 to her barren place, F Can’t get another writer

Am You oughta heard me crying, G C baby you’re all I crave, Am You oughta heard me crying, G C mama you’re all I crave, C You oughta heard me crying C7 you’re all I crave, F While I wrote your will upon your grave, Am And that’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama your losin’ out. Am And that’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama your losin’ out. Am And that’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama your losin’ out.

to take your place, Am That’s the reason I’m telling you G C mama you’re losin’ out.

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Age of Assassins C Oh when the summer sun come cutting Like a clean razor blade F And I wake to the day and all the visions I've made C Reached out my hand for the curl of her hair F And whisper my dreams to the girl who's not there G Gather some memory from the night before C G F Where'd she go? she go, she go? G Screaming of threats and slam of a door C G F Well I don't know, don't know, don't know C So I look to the window and the city below F From this bed of mine Where I eat sweet jelly rolls C Think I'll put on my face I'd like to fix me a drink F 'Cause somewhere someone knows just what I think G Last night's but a question that hangs likes a noose C G F 'Round my throat, my throat G Surely tonight, I'll invite its abuse C G F Well there's no hope, no hope, no hope C Goodness me, oh my F Oh my god, I still might be fine G Get through all the pains I fake F Poor boy could use a break C A break from my own daily hate, oh F "Pain is something no one else knows"

G That's what I hear them say F But everyone bereaves the day G C F I said weary weary walk away C So I take to the streets like the dead to the grave F You light me a smoke because it's right to behave C And I'm all juiced up all morning because the morning is when F Heros stand tall in the statues of men G And all the pigeons adore me and peck at my feet C G F Oh the fame, the fame, the fame G Someday they may use my head as a seat C G F Well I can't wait, can't wait, can't wait C Goodness me, oh my F Oh my god, I still might get by G Get through all the pains I fake F Poor boy could use a break C A break from my own daily hate, oh F "Pain is something no one else knows" G That's what I hear them say F But everyone bereaves the day G C F I said weary weary walk away C G When I die alone bury me deep C Way out west past Sunset Street C7 F So I can hear old 29 C G C when she goes rollin' by C G And when they come to claim my skin

C And I go back where I begin C7 F Place the stones at my head and feet C G C Tell them all I've gone to sleep C And as the city unravels her metal bedroll F I dirty her sheets with the stumble I stroll C And the people all stop just to watch me go by F With a thirst in my throat and a tear in my eye G So riddle me this while I lend you my soul C G F in a song, in a song, a song G And balance the sky on these shoulders of mine C G F Until the dawn, the dawn, the dawn C Goodness me, oh my F Oh my god, I still might get by G Get through all the pains I fake F Poor boy could use a break C A break from my own daily hate, oh F "Pain is something no one else knows" G That's what I hear them say F But everyone bereaves the day G C F G C I said weary weary walk away

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The Deader eBGDAE G’: 354353 G’ so now let me tell you F C (/c /b /a) about this girl of mine G’ heart like all men’s dreams F C in the days of 49 F C I turn hollow no me more swallow G F this fast only she breaks F C but distance keeps her miles or meters G F what difference does it make G’ ‘cause here they come again F C to repossess my dreams G’ child don’t play yourself F C things are never what they seem F C a bridge a river a pale moon sliver G F city shines so bright F C but to my despair I return G F where they sleep out every night C G7 C the girl I love is oh so far away G7 and I wonder can she hear me C as I go through my day G’ F C oh now the bleating sea she laps upon my door G’ I’ll round a thousand horns F C just to drown upon her shore F C blood red roses go down moses G F oh billowing sails

F C those so weak-willed, guts all sea-filled G F throw them o’er the rails G’ F C boys tighten up the jib and sing a hearty song G’ F C we been driftin’ driftin’ for far too long F C I take no care me I’m so bareG F breasted on the bow F C scabbed and weathered skin of leather G F who’s the deader now C G7 C the girl I love is oh so far away G7 and I wonder can she hear me C as I go through my day G7 its so long lady angel C I guess I’ll say goodbye G7 but I do believe I’m aging C right before your eyes G’ wash up on her coast F C not a nickel to my name G’ sold my sold my sold my F C gold watch and chain F C enough to hire a band of lyres G F to march me on my way F through hills and valleys C Streets and alleys G F up to her open gate C G7 C the girl I love is oh so far away G7 and I wonder can she hear me C as I go through my day

G7 its so long lady angel C I guess I’ll say goodbye G7 but I do believe I’m aging C right before your eyes C G7 cock crow in the morning C heard it loud and clear G7 I ask her for to marry C she answer with a tear G7 boy you have my heart C and I know you always will G7 but that ain’t enough to hold me C cause love don’t pay the bills C F I turned away in shame C for all my days in vain G guess I’ll just drag on C no one loves you till you’re gone F let the river be my guide C let the desert be my bride G till my heart turns to steel C till I no longer feel that C G7 C the girl I love is oh so far away G7 and I wonder can she hear me C as I go through my day G7 its so long lady angel C I guess I’ll say goodbye G7 but I do believe I’m aging C right before your eyes

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Ribbons Round My Tongue C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C C G Dm F oh lady fair your stranglin’ hair C G6 C G6 C ribbons round my tongue C G I try to speak Dm F but my thoughts grow weak C G6 C C7 for all the yarns you’ve spun G Dm F I heard them say that evil may C G6 C G6 walk in beauty’s shoes C G Dm F well if ever I could love myself C G6 C G6 C then I’ll stop loving you

C G Dm F when you’re gone I’ll carry on C G6 C G6 C it was never meant to last C G Dm F and I’d much prefer to sit alone C G C C7 and drink about the past G Dm F or so I say somehow some way C G C till I believe its true C G Dm F but if ever I could love myself C G6 C G6 C then I’ll stop loving you C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C

C G Dm F were you out the other night C G6 C G6 C flirting with all my friends C G Dm F I heard you told a joke or two C G C C7 with my name at the end G Dm F Come round home I’m all alone C G6 C tell me it just ain’t true C G Dm F well if ever I could love myself C G6 C G6 C then I’ll stop loving you C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C C G Dm F C G6 C G6 C

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Las Cruces Jail C#m G#m (A quick) B A (B quick) C#m G#m (A quick) B A E Well I spent last night in Las Cruces Jail. B A Raining hail, born to fail. E Nobody come for to go my bail. B E Sun, don't you rise no more. E Well I shot one man on the county line. B A Took his dime and I blew his mind. E Now I'm just sittin' here doin' time. B E Sun, don't you rise no more. C#m Well a restless wind is whistling G#m through my windows through my head, B through all the scrapes A that I've survived. C#m And in my hour of darkness G#m I keep counsel with the dead, B A just enough to remind me I'm alive.

E Well I write to the governor for to hear my plea B A but he don't even answer me. E Judge said he's gonna set my spirit free. B A Sun, don't you rise no more.

E Gavel fell, he chose the day, B A cattle tie, thirteenth of May. E But I don't plan to go that way. B E Sun, don't you rise no more. A

B E Goodnight my Anda-Lucia. A B E Don't buy all the lies that they feed ya. A B And though you're heading slowly to C#m A some place I can't respect, E I'll keep you in my B E collection of regrets. C#m And that's twenty-one fell by my gun, G#m oh, they all fell the same. B A Just need one more to match my age. C#m Then I'll count my killin' done. G#m but I won't deny my name: B Quickest wrist of the A chaparral and sage. E Now desperate times call for desperate men, B A I'm just a kid but I'll pretend E my time will come but until then, B E Sun, don't you rise no more. E Well I see that gallows altar, E that circle 'round the Sun.

B E They're gonna hang me if I stay here, A B they're gonna shoot me if I run. E That jailer better watch his pride B A or off my wrists these shackles slide. E Hear my restless fourty-five. B E Sun, don't you rise no more. A

B E B Goodnight my Anda-Lucia. A B E B Don't buy all the lies that they feed ya A B And though you're heading slowly C#m A to some place I can't respect, E I'll keep you in my B E collection of regrets C#m And down the highway, down the road, G#m to infamy I'll ride. B A I'll take my pardon on the run, C#m with a trail of death behind me G#m and Deluvina at my side, B A two silhouettes against the Sun. E Well I spent last night in Las Cruces Jail. B A Raining hail, born to Fail. E Nobody come for to go my bail. B E Sun, don't you rise no more C#m G#m (A quick) B A (B quick) C#m G#m (A quick) B A

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Despite What You've Been Told C F C F C G F C G C well I guess by the blood stain of your lips F and the wander of your fingertips C I should prove true F C to my emptiness and stay here C but I’m just a kid of ill repute G and the skin I wear’s my only suit F and you you’re just a substitute C G for the one that I hold dear F G C you know you could be anyone G F god forgive my tasteless tongue G C I never should have been set free F G C I claw my eyes I skin my face G F beg somehow to be replaced G C that’s how we deal with boys like me C well I guess for this world so sick with loss F And your services so free of cost

it's half past late G and I only came here for escape F you you’re just my next mistake C G like me to you F G C you know you could be anyone G F god forgive your unborn sons G C I hope they don’t end up like me F G I drag my mind C through streets of shame G F hate myself forgive the game G C that’s how we deal with boys like me C but despite what you’ve been told G F I once had a soul C left somewhere behind G F a former friend of mine Am and I hate to speak so free G but you mean nothing to me

F C of your thighs and dive right in C but to you I’m just a confused child G insecure or in denial F go raise your robes C G and hold your trial, I’ll let you win F G C you know I could be anyone G F god forgive what I should’ve done G C my thoughts enough to guilty be F G C yes I guess I made this bed G F but I’ll take the sidewalk instead G C that’s how we deal with boys like me

G

G C but despite what you’ve been told G F I once had a soul C left somewhere behind G F a former friend of mine Am and I hate to sound so true G but I mean nothing to you

So if the street lights F they shine bright G C I’ll get home tonight

C I should climb down

C I guess by the dim light in your eyes F and that to you all things

F C off my rugged cross and lay with you C but you know by now

come as a surprise C I should set the steel trap

so if the street lights F they shine bright G C G F C G F I’ll get home tonight Am G F Em Dm G C

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My Madonna G Your visions been blessed if I'm still fully dressed, C but before you leave me, here's one last request, G Well no I don't care, No I don't mind, Em If you don't hear a word Am From this broke heart of mine. G Em But can I borrow your face Am Just to unload my mind, G Em borrow your face Am Just to unload my mind. G Well now I know I'm pathetic, I'm the sage of absurd, C But I won't violate you With touch but with words, G But there's no need to ask, Shut your mouth, raise a glass, Em But the youth that you drink to's Am Already the past.

G Em And the boy on your arm girl, Am You know he won't last, G Em The boy on your arm girl, Am You know he won't last. G My Madonna's undressin', Her robes are all torn, C And I swear that she's G Callin' my name. But for all her caresses, My senses are worn, Em Am The feelin' is gone, and sweet lady, G You just don't taste the same. G And I'll drink just to drive, If my love don't arrive, C I don't wanna survive, I don't wanna survive, G And all that I know is, I smile just for show, Em And nobody's listenin', Am But everyone knows. G Em So just sit back and watch

Am While my memory corrodes, G Em Sit back and watch, Am While my memory corrodes. G And I curse my own comfort For the deaf and the blind, C 'Cause it's dark as a dungeon Way down in my mind. G And I wake on the floor With my country at war, Em And I wish I could care Am But my liver's too sore. G Em And if liquor's a lover, Am You know I'm a whore, G Em If liquor's a lover, Am You know I'm a whore. G My Madonna's undressin', Her robes are all torn, C And I swear that she's G Callin' my name. But for all her caresses, My senses are worn, Em Am The feelin' is gone, and sweet lady, G You just don't taste the same.

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Reflections of the Marionette

A With one foot on my back E And the other on the rail

F#m A E B

B I don’t want to see you fall E I want to see you fail

F#m Call the dogs and sound the horns A The city key of where i’s born E Has been stolen by someone B I thought I knew F#m She blew in with some angel dust A From southern state Where love is lust E And I hope she’s gone B By the time this song is through E But out among the ers by B She wets her lips, sweats her eyes C#m Baits her tongue B With pity for her prey A She transcends the avenue E A smile for me, a wink to you B I guess I’ll take A My place in yesterday [Chorus]: E And darlin' I cant wait A For you to leave this town E You just got here too late B And no one wants you ‘round

F#m Well the night is sweet The night’s divine A It stains your teeth With blood red wine E And leaves you lying B In your enemy’s arms F#m And while you mumble down the hall A Something ‘bout a skin made wall E You find you’re just B A sucker for her charms E ‘Cause the vanity that cakes her face B Sucks you into death’s embrace C#m You feel your sense of self B Just fade away A See you’re just a one man show and E Once you’re done its time to go B Hear some restless A Footsteps down the way

F#m now the youth protests the failing light A with his shirt sleeves rolled in the humid night E he wonders where it was B that he went wrong F#m and in denial while he ascends A to her lofty room where all dreams end E he watches while his footsteps B lead him on E but his turn comes the next in line B the well worn steps he slowly climbs C#m to find her lying B meat-hooks on display A and in the streets the sirens sing E what word they tell what news they bring B the puppet in his cuffs A of string obeys [Chorus] E A E B A E E A E B E A E B E

[Chorus] E A E B 2x

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Some Slender Rest C G F And I’m a go make my bed C Tuck in the other side G F These confessions are mine C But I’ll not claim a word C This restless parade F Yes I watched it go by C Through the cracks in my palm G Seen them all gone C Some sequence of lives C Well she calls out alone F With the pain in her voice C It’s the wound of betrayal G It’s the weapon of choice C Left her heart on display F Though that she’ll deny C Two tattoos of skin G One of ice one of tin C C7 For the days have gone by Am F C But I ain’t one to reminisce Am F But close my heart

C and clench my fists

G

C When you’re reckless of hand G And trembling the knife C And all your doors prefer locks F And your death prefers spoons C Why wouldn’t you wait G one last laugh at fate C C7 Forever’s too soon

C Now the days swiftly F With the chest full of fear C Here the minutes are hours G But the moments are years C And old acquaintances ed F In trios, in pairs C And if they stay or they go G One struggles to know C C7 One struggles to care Am F C But out beyond the Ten Tree walls Am F The wind blows hard C the highway crawls Am F And if you should C G the James Hotel Am C G F Please stop in for I knew you well Am F C But that was oh so long ago Am F C And I never learned how to let go

C But when you fear your own faults F And you’re sick of this life

G

Am F But across the field C death bell knells Am F C Listen close hear the toll tell Am F C G To run and tell my darling true Am C My breath is short G F My days are few Am G So please come down F G And take my hand Am G My last demand Am F C And lead me to some slender rest Am F C G And please dismiss what I confess C F C G Am F C G Am C G F Am G F G Am G Am F C Am F C G C

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Steady Rollin' C You might have seen me 'neath the pool hall lights. F Well baby I go back each night. F/F# If you got a throat I got a knife G F Steady rollin', I keep goin'. C I don't mind how quick the seasons change. F You know to me, they's every one the same. F/F# The sweetest sunshine drips the drain. G F Death's comin', I'm still runnin'. C Well I come from the old time baby, F Too late for you to save me. C G C If I remain then I'm to blame. C But if you should ever need me, F I'll go where'er you lead me. C G C It's all the same, the same old game

C My lovin' lady She's a ball and chain. F I still can travel But my speed has changed F/F# I bring the money, I take the blame. G F Steady rollin', I keep goin'. C But I shot my wife today, F Dropped her body in the Frisco bay. F/F# I had no choice it was the only way G F Death's comin', I'm still runnin'. C Well I come from the old time baby, F Too late for you to save me. C G C If I remain then I'm to blame. C But if you should ever need me, F I'll go where'er you lead me. C G C It's all the same, the same old game C Out waltzin' with the Holy Ghost, F From the Bowery to the Barbary Coast C The land I'm from you know I love the most G F Steady rollin', I keep goin'

C And everyday is just another town. F The more I search you know the less I've found. F/F# Me, I'm a sucker, just a slave to sound. G F Death's comin', I'm still runnin'. C Well I come from the old time baby, F Where all the kids are crazy C G C If I remain then I'm to blame. C But if you should ever need me, F I'll go where'er you lead me. C G C It's all the same, the same old game

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Two Days Short Tomorrow F# My darling, my darling B are you as composed F# as the space you fill? you know there's little reason to B demand what cant be given F# from the heads you fill B A#m G#m and you aim your thoughts homeward B F# as if you had a reason to be gone F# and you were raised by sirens B they taught you not to talk F# all words are empty but they lent you their hats, B screaming bring back F# from the other side some sympathy B A#m G#m and you spend no time to wonder B A#m when you claim to know the answer F# why be wrong so you put on your painted dress B while the badass takes your hand F# and tempts you homeward F# and so I’ve heard

C# that you've gone wrong F# but is it OK C# if I think of you F# 'cause you might just be B what I’m counting on F# just one more day (C#) F# that I must get through F# well you break just like the morning B and if yesterday dont know you F# well who does then and if you ever seek me out B I’ll be someone among the people F# you call have beens B A#m G#m well you'd love to be a martyr B A#m but you got nothing to die for F# so you wait B A#m G#m and wintertime is coming you can feel the cold drum F# drumming once again F# and so I’ve heard C# that you've gone wrong F# but is it OK

C# if I think of you F# 'cause you might just be B what I’m counting on F# just one more day (C#) F# that I must get through C# well I love my country I love my country B but I fear your mother I fear your mother G#m and she’s growing older or so they told her B and flowers wont replace her F# your my sheath, I’m your rapier F# and so I’ve heard C# that you've gone wrong F# but is it OK C# if I think of you F# 'cause you might just be B what I’m counting on F# just one more day (C#) F# that I must get through (C#) F# that I must get through

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LEVELLERS

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English Civil War By The Clash

Am When Johnny comes marching home again G hurrah tallah Am He's coming by bus or underground Em hurrah tallah C G A woman's eye will shed a tear F C To see his face so beaten in fear Am G F It's just around the corner Em Am in the English Civil War Am Still at the stage of clubs and fists G hurrah tallah Am When his well known face Em got beaten to bits hurrah tallah C And his face was blue G in the light of the screen F We watched his speech C of an animal scream Am G F Em The new party army Am Was marching over our heads

Am G They are I told you so hurrah tallah Am Says everybody that we know Em hurrah tallah C But who hid the radio G under the stairs F C And who got caught on it's unawares Am G F Em The new party army came Am marching out the stairs Am When Johnny comes marching home again G hurrah tallah Am Nobody understands Em this could happen again hurrah tallah C The sun is shining G and the kid's shouting loud F You've got to know it's shining C through a crack in the cloud Am G F Em The shadows keep on falling Am 'Cause Johnny's marching home C G F C All the girls go oh oh oh oh Am G F Em Just get his coffin ready 'Cause Am Johnny's coming home

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The River Flow G

C

Em D

G C I met you in '82, Em D over a crate of beer and not a few G C I cracked a can and so did you, Em D we're gonna change the world G C The ghetto kings of downside town – Em the estates and parks D of our hallowed ground G C Doing anything that we found, Em D and on the river flowed G C You'd take a drink from Em D The Reverent Jimmy Jones G C You'd cross the street Em D on the path the gunman roams G C Thrown aside and left to waste, Em D that was you - you knew your place G C Wander round, get off your face, Em D and on the river flowed Em On and on the river flow – G D C we the undertow

Em On and on the river flow – G D C we the undertow

Em On and on the river flow – G D C we the undertow

G

G

C

Em D

x4

G C I don't know how you made it through Em D all the smoke and brew you do G C It sure has left its mark on you Em D but you're still with us today G C Life goes on and round we go and Em D words can kill these things I know G C Sometimes you cut me deeply so, Em D but on the river flows G C You'd set the table for Em D The barber Sweeney Todd G C You'd clip the wings Em D off of any rising god G C Man can't live on hope alone, Em D it can be cut, all that is grown G C Broke your spirit but not your bones, Em D and on the river flows Em On and on the river flow – G D C we the undertow

Am

C

Em D

G

Am

x4 G

You're working now – Forced to the race I know it left a bitter taste But the rising tide Had covered your face Nothing you could do But I still the day you said That the river flowing Through my head Would take me far or leave me dead And all you said was true G On and Em and on G On and Em and on G On and Em and on G On and Em and on

C on, and on and on, D and on, and on C on, and on and on, D the river went C on, and on and on, D and on, and on C on, and on and on, D the river flowed

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BRIGHT EYES / CONOR OBERST

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Haile Selassie D

G A In knowing the wave has crested G A Knowing I don't have to be an exception

D Pilgrim across the water A We are the same brother G A Hitchhiking back to Zion G A Holding our tears as we flip the album

D What if this leads to ruin? A You got a soul, use it G A All this despair forgiven G A Rolling away on the Wheel of Sevens D Sings like the Queen of Sheba A Voice through a Blonde Speaker G A One dropping bubble and Leslie G A Calling me home like Haile Selassie

D Children they fill the bleachers A One is the next Caesar G A Keep all their minds collected G A Until he comes, Until he comes Em G Hide the Omega day in plain sight D A G Too good to be true D A I seen, I seen, G A I seen stranger things man D A G A I seen, I seen that tree of smoke D A Yeah I seen, I seen, I seen, G A D A I seen stranger things happen G A Happen before

G A One love! Magnetic memory G Reel after reel A Spinning within me Em

G I had the wildest dream last night D A G I was swimming with you Em G In that cenote the Heavens made D with black fire A G Just woke up too soon D A I seen, I seen, G A I seen stranger things man D A G A I seen, I seen those daytime ghosts G A D A I seen stranger things happen G A Happen before D A G A x 2

Bm A Bm A D A G A x 2 D Pilgrim beside the fire A It's been a long winter G A We got a lot in common G A Cover our heads as they split the atom

D All of our days are numbered A I'll take in some comfort

D Pilgrim up on the mountain A Barefoot and still climbin' G A Filling the book of hours G A Day after day in the filth and squalor

D We are the chosen people A Safe from the next evil

D A I seen, I seen, G A I seen stranger things man D A G A I seen, I seen that tree of smoke D A Yeah I seen, I seen, G A D A I seen stranger things happen G A Happen before

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Jejune Stars Capo on 2nd

Em Em

C C

Em Every new day is a gift, G it's a song of redemption Em Any expression of love G is the way to return C To that place that I think of so often,

G but now never mention D The one the voice in the back of my head

Em says that I don't deserve Em Come fire, come water, come karma G We're all in transition Em The wheel I'm becoming G erases the physical mind C Until all that remains G is a staircase of misinformation D And the code we inherit, Em the basis, the essence of life

Am D So I go, umbrella under my arm G C Into the green of the radar Am D G How'd it get so dark in the day? Am D It's just so bizarre G C Is it true what we're made of? Am D G Why do I hide from the rain? Em

C

Em Inside's so cloudy, nostalgia G But there are no features Em Look at ourselves through a porthole G The age of time C See that sunny day that we snuck out, G hid under the bleachers D Kissed as the band marched G Everything fell into line

Am D G Why do I hide from the rain? Am D G C Am D G

x2

Em Sure I have my doubts C But I know it now G D/F# C We are Jejune stars Em So it starts again C At our childhood's end G D/F# C I'll die young at heart Em Am D So I go, umbrella under my arm G C Into the green of the radar Am D G How'd it get so dark in the day? Am D It's just so bizarre G C If it's true what we're made of? Am D G Why do I hide from the rain?

Em Am D So I go, umbrella under my arm G C Into the green of the radar Am D G How'd I get so lost? I'm amazed. Am D It's just so bizarre G C All the things I'm afraid of.

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Well Whiskey G C G I get my whiskey from a well C Except on holidays, D then it's the top shelf C D But tonight I don't mind G /f# C if I spend a little more G Because you're a tolerant woman D G and the world is at war C G I know you witnessed my decline C You used to push back the darkness D like a floodlight C D But tonight that's a secret, G /f# C like the soul of a whore G That if you want to have fun D G you'll just have to ignore C Now I let my troubles G solve themselves C I used to get involved, D but I'm just no help C D But tonight let's pretend G /f# C that we're just like we were

G Let me stay until the morning, D G I will sleep on the floor C And we can talk in circles, G no dollar figures C D Just what is owed or paid C We can make predictions, G I know you see the future Am D And I agree, and we agree, C /b D G tonight is not happening C G And I got dry as a desert, I got mean C I was as lonely and empty D as a canteen C D With no anesthetic G /f# C you're bound to be sore G But tonight I am drinking D G all peaceful and warm C And just when I got fed up G with that gray sky, C the sun came out of nowhere D like a bar fight. C D and it knocked out the wind

G /f# C and it bruised me with light G and I felt grateful for living D G just like I feel tonight. C G But I know you feel safer in a group C Where you could be anyone D or they could be you C D But tonight we'll take risks G /f# C that you can afford G You still have bars on your windows D G and a hole in your door C So we can talk in circles G around a dirty mirror C D Night trickles down our throats C And we could make a timeline G to last our whole lives Am D But we don't know, no one knows C /b D G what is further up the road Am Just wait and see D Just wait and see Am All in time D G All in time

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Take It Easy (Love Nothing)

C Left by the lamp,

C First with your hands,

right next to the bed F on a cartoon cat pad,

then with your mouth F A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds. G F I was a fool, you were my friend, C we made it happen C You took off your clothes, left on the light. F You stood there so brave, you use to be shy. G Each feature improved, F each movement refined, C and eyes like a show room. G Now they're spreading out F C the blankets on the beach. G F That weather man's a liar, Am G F He said it'd be raining. G But it's clear and blue C as far as I can see.

she scratched with a pen. G F "Everything is as its always been, C this never happened. C Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did. F Just once something dies, you can't make it live. G You're a beautiful boy, F you're a sweet little kid, C but I am a woman". G So I layed back down, F C wrapped my self up in the sheet. G F And I must have looked like a ghost, Am G F because something frightened me. G And since then I've been C so good at vanishing.

but it won't be me. G She'll probably feel cheap, F but I'll just feel free, C And a little bit empty. C No, it isn't so hard, to get close to me. F There'll be no arguments, we will always agree. G And I'll try and be kind, F when I ask you to leave. C We'll both take it easy. G If you stay too long, F C inside my memory. G F I will trap you in a song Am G F tied to a melody. G And I'll keep you there C so you can't bother me.

C Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth. F Someone might get hurt,

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Make War E Our love is dead but without limit A Like the surface of the moon E B7 Or the land between here and the mountains E It is not these hiding places A that have kept us innocent E But the way you taught me B7 E to just let it all go by E So we learn to be as faithless A Stand behind bulletproof glass E B7 Exchanging our affections through a drawer E It was always horribly convenient A and happening too fast E You should count your change B7 E before you're even out the door Well, yes you should, A But please return, return E To the person that you were, C#m B And I will do the same A Because it's too hard to belong E to someone who is gone F#m A E My com spins, but wilderness remains E Once too often I've retreated A into the depths of my despair E B7 I built a barricade to block you on the road E But standing there with all of my possessions A Piled higher than a house

E I felt closer to you B7 E Than you ever would have known E So let these tiny acts of charity A Become ground on which to build E B7 A monument to commemorate our time E And though you say you've found another A Who will surely speed you on your way E Don't let the forest grow over B7 E That path you came there by But you will, so, A E So hurry up and run to the one that you love C#m B And blind him with your kindness A And he'll make war, oh, war, E On who you were before F#m A E And claim all that has spoiled in your heart E But now I tell myself I've mended A Under these patches of blue sky E There's still a few holes B7 That let in a little rain E And so it's crying on my shingles, A My floorboards moan under my feet E The refrigerator's whining B7 E So I've got reason to complain E But I'm not gonna bless you

E Because the truth is that gossip's A As good as gospel in this town E You can save face B7 E But you won't ever save your soul And that's a fact so, A E So hurry up and run to the one that you love C#m B And tie him up in your likeness A And he'll become, become, E Oh, the prisoner I was F#m A E And know all that has spoiled in your heart F#m A E He'll know all that has spoiled in your heart A E So hurry up and run to the one that you love C#m B And blind him with your kindness A And he'll make war, oh, war, E On who you were before F#m A E And claim all that has spoiled in your heart F#m Yeah he'll claim all A E That has spoiled in your heart

With such compliments A Some degrading song of praise E Like the kind that converted you to me B7 So long ago

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Spoiled Capo 2nd fret A D E F#m E A D E A D Baby got his feelings hurt E F#m E Singing that old standard A D You can't break a rule E that ain't been made A D By starlight chasing ponytails E through mushroom clouds F#m E and black fields A D E I don't want to feel this entertained D E Sitting on a crowded coach, A F#m staring at the stereo D E Watching all the hippies A through the haze D E From gentle soul to sad and stoned A F#m No one wants to be alone D But you know you can't E A always have your way Bm E Tell me what you're going to do now D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you're still let down

Bm E Tell me what you're going to do now D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you still feel down

Bm E Tell me what you're going to do now D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you still feel down

A D Farmer, he's a sentient being E F#m E Sipping on his canteen A D E es it to me, I can't say thanks A D Poco, she steers clear of me E F#m E Re all those bad scenes A D If she'd just sit still, E I could explain

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D E That every time I fucked her mind A F#m It's because I thought I was in love D E And I woke up with that A same thought today D E Well, so it goes, the ebb and flow A F#m Happiness was never us D If it's all free, E A why would you ever pay?

Bm Tell me what you're going to do D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you're still let down Bm Tell me what you're going to do D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you still feel down Bm Tell me what you're going to do D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you're still let down Bm Tell me what you're going to do D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you still feel down

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Bm E Tell me what you're going to do now D A You get everything you wanted F#m E and you're still let down

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Classic Cars D She was a real royal lady, G true patron of the arts A Said the best country singers Bm G die in the back of classic cars D So if I ever got too hungry G for a suitcase or guitar D To think of them A D all alone in the dark D So I laid some nights beside her G in a bed made for a queen A She said I kissed her different, Bm G that all the men her age were mean D Gave me anything I wanted, G Oh the generosity D A D I took all that I could, it was free D Now the sky is a torn up denim G and the clouds just splattered paint A It’s a room I’m renovating; Bm G it’s a name I gotta change D If I get out of California G I’m going back to my home state D To tell them all A D that I made a mistake And I keep looking G for that blindfold faith

A Lighting candles to a cynical saint D A Who wants the last laugh at the fly Bm G trapped in the windowsill tape A You can go right out of your mind trying to escape D A From the panicked paradox Bm G of day to day D If you can’t understand something A Bm G then it’s best to be afraid D The whole world it loves you G if you’re a chic chameleon A Intersecting circles Bm G she could hang with anyone D But when conducting business G she would lie about where she’s from D A Saying, "Life is how it is D not how it was" D I learned to listen G felt like I was back at school A She’d talk forever Bm G about the phases of the moon D Saying, "Everything is a cycle, G you’ve got to let it come to you D And when it does, A D you will know what to do"

D Without even knowing G I guess I took up her advice A Painted her front door Bm G it seemed a suitable goodbye D It’s not that often G but I think of her sometimes D Just something quaint, A D a couple ships in the night And they keep moving at a G glacial pace A Turning circles in a memory maze D A I made a new cast of the death mask Bm G that’s gonna cover my face A I had to change the combination to the safe D A Hide it all behind a wall Bm G let people wait A And never trust a heart D Bm G that is so bent it can’t break

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Reinvent the Wheel D G My friend you were a model, A D a priceless work of art. D G Boys would fashion their emotions A to the pattern of you heart. D G And I heard you wrote that record A D for a girl you loved but died. D G I'm here sewing mine, together, A just hoping you're alive. G A And I know you'll never come back now D A to the world where people are. D A G 'Cause you never understood what they loved you for. D A G D G Now ghosts they have their secrets, A D and they'll tell them to a few. D G So you can never pay attention, A when they're whispering to you. D G There were many talents you possessed A D that I wished myself to have.

D But the way your eyes would G A gloss over, well I never envied that. G A And I doubt you'll ever come back now D A from wherever it is you are. D A G 'Cause you never understood what we loved you for. D A G D G I'm sure the T.V. sets will tell us A D when someone reinvents the wheel. Till then I'll have D G a million conversations A about shit that isn't real. D G But I'll try to breathe in meaning A D dig deep through every gasp of air. D G Cause I know you did the same thing A for as long as you can bear. G A I guess everything just circles D A 'round to where it was before. D A G So I hope I'll see you soon in some other form. D A G

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Everything Must Belong Somewhere C G Am Leave the bright blue door F G on the whitewashed wall C G Am F G Leave the death ledger under city hall Am G C F G C Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today G Am F G C G Am F G Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet C G Am Leave the birds you killed F G at your father's feet Am G C Let the sideways rain F G C G Am F G and the crooked street remain C G Am F G Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel C G Am F G Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal Am G C Leave the ac-id kids F G C in their green fishbowls today G Am F G C G Am Just leave the sad guitar F G in its hardshell case C G Am F G Leave the worried look on your lover's face Am G C Let the orange embers F G C G Am F G in the fireplace remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am A train off in the distance, F G bicycle chained to the stairs Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G I know that now, that’s why I'm staying here C G Am F G C G Am F C G Leave the ocean's C G Am Leave the widower Am G C Leave the liberty

Am F G roar in the turquoise shell F G in his private hell F G in that broken bell today

C G Am F G C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page C G Am F G Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage Am G C Let the traveling band F G C G Am F G on the interstate remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am Sound stage in California, F G Televisions in Times Square Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G Am I know that now that’s why I'm staying here F Yeah, I know that now, G That’s why I'm staying here C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed C G Am F G Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed Am G C Leave those bad ideas F G C G Am F G in your troubled head today C G Am F G Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel C G Am F G Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell Am G C Let the painted horse F G C G Am F G on the carousel remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am Just like the gold around her finger F G or the silver in his hair Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G Am I know that now that’s why I'm staying here F G C I know that now, that's why I'm staying here

C G Am F G Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool C G Am F G Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool Am G C Leave the poor black child F G C G Am F G in his crumbling school today C G Am F G Leave the novelist in his daydream tune C G Am F G Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube Am G C Let the true genius F G C G Am F G in the padded room remain C G Am F G Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow C G Am F G Leave the slot machines on the riverboat Am G C Leave the cauliflower F G C G Am F G in the casserole today C G Am F G Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls C G Am F G Leave the hawks of war in their capitol Am G C Let the organ's moan F G C G Am F G in the cathedral remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am They locked the Devil in the basement F G threw God up into the air Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G And you know it's true, Am I wish you'd leave me here F You know it's true, G Am E F why don't you leave me here?

Em Am In truth the forest hears each sound F G Each blade of grass as it lies down Em Am The world requires no audience F Fm No witnesses, no witnesses

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Bowl of Oranges C The rain it started tappin, G on the window near my bed Dm There was a loophole in my dreamin, G so I got out of it Am And to my surprise F my eyes were wide and already open Dm To my nightstand and my dresser G where those nightmares had just been C So I dressed myself and left them, G out into the grey streets Dm But everything seemed different, G completely new to me Am The sky, the trees, houses, F buildings, even my own body Dm And each person I encountered, G I couldn’t wait to meet C And I came upon a doctor, G who appeared in quite poor health Dm I said there’s nothing that I can do for you

G that you can’t do for yourself Am He said “Oh yes you can just hold my hand, F I think that that would help” Dm So I sat with him a while, G and I asked him how he felt C C/b Am He said "I think I'm cured. C C/b Am C C/b Am In fact I'm sure. Thank you stranger, G for your therapeutic smile." C

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C So that’s how I learned the lesson, G that everyone’s alone Dm And eyes must do some raining, G if you’re ever gonna grow Am And when cryin don’t help, you can’t compose yourself F it’s best to compose a poem Dm An honest verse of longing, G Or a simple song of hope C That’s why I’m singin’ baby G don’t worry, cause now I got you back

Dm And every time you feel like crying, G I’m gonna try and make you laugh Am And if I can’t, if it just hurts too bad, F then we’ll wait for it to Dm And I will keep you company, G for those days so long and black C And we’ll keep working on the problem, G that no one ever solved Dm Of love’s uneven remainders, G our lives are fractions of a whole Am But if the world could remain within a frame, F like a painting on a wall Dm Then I think we’d see the beauty G and, we’d stand staring in awe C C/b Am At our still lives posed, C C/b Am like a bowl of oranges C C/b Am Like a story told, G C of fault lines, and soul

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Road to Joy C The sun came up with no conclusion It's flowers sleeping in their beds The cities cemetary's humming I'm wide-awake, it's morning I have my drugs, I have my woman To keep away my loneliness My parents have they have Their religion But sleep in separate houses Em I read the body count Am Out of the paper F G C And now it's written all over my face Em No one ever plans to sleep Am Out in the gutter F G Sometimes that's just the most C Comfortable place

F G It's best to the side C That's gonna win Em And no one's sure Am How all of this got started F But we're gonna make them goddam G C certain how its gonna end Oh yeah we will, oh yeah we will! Well I could have been A famous singer If I had someone else's voice But failure's always sounded better Lets fuck it up boys, Make some noise! The sun came up with no conclusion It's flowers sleeping in their beds The cities cemetary's humming I'm wide-awake, it's morning

So I'm drinking, breathing, writing, singing Everyday up on the clock My mind races with all my longings But cant keep up with what I got I hope I don't sound too ungrateful What history gave modern man The telephone to talk to strangers Machine guns and the camera lens Em So when you're asked to fight a war Am That's over nothing

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Landlocked Blues C G C If you walk away, I'll walk away C G C First tell me which road you will take Am G I don't want to risk C Am our paths crossing some day C G C So you walk that way, I'll walk this way C G C And the future hangs over our heads C G C And it moves with each current event Am G Until it falls all around C Am like a cold steady rain C G C Just stay in when it's looking this way C G C And the moon's laying low in the sky C G C Forcing everything metal to shine Am G And the sidewalk holds diamonds C Am like the jewelry store case C G C They argue walk this way, no walk this way C G C And Laura's asleep in my bed C G C As I'm leaving she wakes up and says Am G "I dreamed you were carried away C Am on the crest of a wave C G C Baby don't go away, come here" C G C And there's kids playing guns in the street C G C And ones pointing his tree branch at me Am G C Am So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough, C G C If you walk away, I'll walk away" C7 And he shot me dead Am

G C I found a liquid cure Am G C From my landlocked blues

F G C Am It'll away like a slow parade C G C It's leaving but I don't know how soon C G C C G C Am G C Am C G C C G C And the world's got me dizzy again C G You think after 22 years C I'd be used to the spin Am G And it only feels worse C Am when I stay in one place C G C So I'm always pacing around or walking away C G C I keep drinking the ink from my pen C G And I'm balancing history books C up on my head Am G C Am But it all boils down to one quotable phrase C G C If you love something, give it away C G C A good woman will pick you apart C G A box full of suggestions C for your possible heart Am G C Am But you may be offended and you may be afraid C G C But don't walk away, don't walk away C G C We made love on the living room floor C G With the noise in background C of a televised war Am G And in the deafening pleasure C Am I thought I heard someone say C G C "If we walk away, they'll walk away" C G C But greed is a bottomless pit C G And our freedom's a joke C We're just taking a piss

Am G And the whole world must watch C Am the sad comic display C If you're still free G C start running away Cause we're coming for you! C G C C G C Am G C Am C G C C G C I've grown tired of holding this post C G I feel more like a stranger C each time I come home Am G So I'm making a deal C Am with the devils of faith C G C Saying "let me walk away, please" C You'll be free child G C once you have died C G From the shackles of language C and immeasurable time Am G And then we can trade places, C Am play musical grace C G C Till then walk away, walk away Am

G C So I'm up at dawn Am G C Putting on my shoes F G C Am I just want to make a clean escape C G C I'm leaving but I don't know where to C I know I'm leaving G C but I don't know where to

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Another Travelling Song B I'm changin all my strings I'm gonna E Write another travelin' song B About all the billion highways F# And the cities at the break of dawn B I guess the best that I can do now Is pretend that I’ve E Done nothing wrong F# And to dream about a train E B That’s gonna take back where I belong B The ocean speaks and spits and E I can feel it from the interstate. B And I'm screaming at my brother F# On a cell phone, he is far away. B I'm saying nothing in the past Or the future E Ever will feel like today. F# I tell him park it in the alley and E B Just hoping that our shit is safe. E B So I go back and forth forever E B All my thoughts they come in pairs

E F# Oh, I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't C#m I'm not surprised, E F# B And I never feel quite prepared

F# And I awoke to my alarm clock, E It was a pop song, B It was playing loud.

Now I'm hunched over a typewriter,

E So I will find my fears B And face them, E B Or I will cower like a dog. E I'll kick and scream F# Or kneel in glee, C#m I'll fight like hell E F# B To hide that I'm giving up!

I guess you'd call it painting In a cave. And there's a word I can't And a feeling I cannot escape And now my ashtray's overflowing, I'm still staring at a Clean, white page. F# The morning's at my window E B And she's sending me to bed again. B Well I dreamed a dark on the horizon, I dreamed a desert E Where the dead lay down. B I dreamed a prostituted child Touching an old man F# In a fast food crowd. B Oh yeah I dreamt the ship was sinking There were people E Screaming all around

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First Day of My Life C E Am F G C C E Am F G C C E Am This is the first day of my life F G C Swear I was born right in the doorway C E I went out in the rain, Am Suddenly everything changed They're spreading D7 G Blankets on the beach C E Am Yours is the first face that I saw F G C Think I was blind before I met you C E Don't know where I am, Am Don't know where I've been D7 G But I know where I want to go C G Am So I thought I'd let you know F G That these things take forever C C/b Am I especially am slow D2(003230) But I realized that I need you C And I wondered if I could come home G Am D2(003230) F2(006560) F3(006568)

C I mean I really think you like me

C E I the time Am You drove all night F G C Just to meet me in the morning C E I thought it was strange, Am You said everything changed D7 G You felt as if you'd just woke up

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And you said, C E Am "This is the first day of my life. F G I'm glad I didn't die C Before I met you. C E Now I don't care, Am I could go anywhere with you, D7 G And I'd probably be happy." C G Am So if you want to be with me F G With these things there's no telling C C/b Am We'll just have to wait and see But I'd rather be D2 Working for a paycheck C E Than waiting to win the lottery D2 Besides, maybe this time

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Old Soul Song D Bm G A D D Bm G A D D Dsus Grey like new day leaks Bm Through the window G An old soul song comes on A D The alarm clock radio. D Dsus We walked the forty blocks Bm To the middle G Of the place we heard A D That everything would be G And there were barricades A D To keep us off the street, Bm G But the crowd kept pushing forward Em A Until they swallowed the police. Em Yeah, they went wild G Yeah, they went wild Em Yeah, they went wild G Yeah, they went wild D Bm G A D D Bm G A D

D Dsus We left before the dust Bm Had time to settle G And all the broken glass A D Swept off the avenue. D And all the way home Dsus Bm Held your camera like a bible, G Just wishing so bad A D That it held some kind of truth. G A And I stood nervous next to you D In the dark room, Bm G You dropped the paper in the water Em A And it all begins to bloom.

Em A Like a wall of new TVs. Em Yeah, they go wild G Yeah, they go wild. Em Yeah, they go wild G Yeah, they go wild. D Yeah, they go wild. Em Yeah, they go wild. G Yeah, they go wild. Em Yeah, they go wild. D

Em Yeah, they go wild G Yeah, they go wild. Em Yeah, they go wild G Yeah, they go wild. D G Bm Em A D G Bm Em A G A And just when I get so lonesome D I can't speak, Bm G I see some flowers on a hillside,

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And it'll go like this alright;

F He says death will give us G back to god Am F Just like this setting sun G is returned to the lonesome ocean C We must blend into the choir F C Sing ecstatic with the whole C We must memorize nine numbers F G And deny we have a soul C And in this endless race for property F And privilege to be one C G C We must run, we must run, we must run C We must hang up in the belfry F C Where the bats and moonlight laugh C We must stare into a crystal ball F G And only see the past C And in the caverns of tomorrow with F Just our flashlights and our love C G We must plunge, we must plunge, C We must plunge

F G While my mother waters plants C F My father loads his guns

And then we'll get down there Way to the very bottom of everything And then we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it!

At the Bottom of Everything C We must talk in every telephone F C Get eaten off the web C We must rip out all the epilogues F G In the books that we have read C And in the face of every criminal F Strapped firmly to a chair C G We must stare, we must stare, C We must stare C We must take all of the medicines F C Too expensive now to sell C Set fire to the preacher F G Who is promising us hell C And in the ear of every anarchist F That sleeps but doesn't dream C G We must sing, we must sing, C We must sing

F G Oh my mornings coming back C F The whole world's waking up F G The city buses are swimming past Am F I'm happy just because G C F C I found out I'm really no one

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Train Under Water A E You were born inside of a raindrop D A I watched you falling to your death A And the sun, E Well it could not save you D It'd fallen down too, A the streets are wet A E Body of water, toxic and timeless D A The Atlantic ocean, New York skyline A I always get lost E When I leave the village D So I couldn't come meet you A In Brooklyn last night A E But I sing glory for my lowest D And I will say peace E To the people I meet A While the world E Waits for an explosion D That instant of life A That wipes that slate clean

F# E So don't be fooled F# E Don’t get be lied to C#m F# B E Love was always cruel F# E Don't act strange F# E Don't be a stranger C#m It happened to me, F# B E now it's happening to you D But if you take that train underwater

D A Looking for something to open my eyes A Well we still sing glory E From a highrise D And I will say thanks E If you're pouring my drinks A While the world E Waits for an explosion D That moment in time A When we’ll be set free

Then we could talk it through F# A E D A A E D A A Well if I could tame E All of my desires D Wait out the weather A That howls in my brain A Because it seems E That it's always changing D The wind's indecision, A The sorrowful rain A E I was a postcard, I was a record D A I was a camera until I went blind A E Now I'm riding all over this island

E So don't stay mad F# E Just let some time C# And in the morning F# B E You'll wake feeling new F# E And if I don't come back F# E I mean, if I get sidetracked C# F# B It's only 'cause I wanted to D Keeping up with the moon

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Poison Oak A

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Dsus2 Poison oak some boyhood bravery A when a telephone was a Dsus2 tin can on a string A/F# And I fell asleep E With you still talking to me A You said you weren't afraid to die

Dsus2/F# I was young enough Dsus2/B I still believed in war

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Dsus2 A Dsus2 A In polaroids you were Dsus2 dressed in womans clothes A were you made ashamed? Dsus2 Why'd you lock them in the drawer? A/F# well I don't think that E I ever loved you more than when A You turned away Dsus2 When you slammed the door Dsus2/F# when you stole the car Dsus2/B drove towards mexico A and you wrote bad checks Dsus2 just to fill your arm

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E But let the poets cry Dsus2/F# themselves to sleep E And all their tearful words Dsus2/F# will turn back into steam A Me, I'm a single cell Dsus2 on the serpents tongue Dsus2/F# theres a muddy field Dsus2/B where the garden was A Well I’m glad you got away Dsus2 But I'm still stuck out here Dsus2/F# My clothes are soaking wet Dsus2/B From your brothers tears A

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Dsus2 I was a statuette Dsus2/F# Now I'm drunk as hell Dsus2/B on a piano bench A And when I press the keys Dsus2 It all gets reversed Dsus2/F# The sound of loneliness Dsus2/B Makes me happier A

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E And I never thought Dsus2/F# This life was possible E You’re the yellow bird Dsus2/F# That I've been waiting for A The end of paralysis

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If the Brakeman Turns My Way G When panic grips your body C G and your heart is a hummingbird G Raven thoughts blacken your mind C D until you're breathing in reverse Em D All your friends and sedatives G D C mean well but make it worse Em C Every reassurance Em C just magnifies the doubt Em D C Better find yourself a place D G Em D to level out G Got a cricket for a conscience C G always looks the other way G A cocaine soul starts seeming C D Like an empty cabaret Em D Hey, where have all the dancers gone? G D C Now the music doesn't play Em C Tried to listen to the river Em C But you couldn't shut your mouth Em D C Better take a little time D G To level out C G I never thought of running C D My feet just led the way G

C Mixed up Signals, Bullet Train

G Cars are switched out D In the crazy rain G C I could meet you any place D C D G Em If the Brakeman turns my way

C G I tried to for nothing C D But my dreams gave me away G D

G All this automatic writing C G I have tried to understand G From a psychedelic angel C D Who was tugging on my hand Em D It's an infinite coincidence G D C But it doesn't form a plan Em C So I'm headed for New England Em C Or the Paris of the South Em D C Gonna find myself somewhere D G Em D to level out G Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, C G With merry Middlemen? G Never peer out of their periscopes C D From those deep opium dens Em All this death must need D G A counterweight always someone D C born again Em C First a mother bathes her child Em C Then the other way around Em D C The Scales always find a way D G To level out

C Mixed up Signals, bullet train G D People snuffed out in the brutal rain G C I could live to any age D C D G If the Brakeman turns my way Am It is an old world D7 It's hard to G C Like a dime store mystery Am D7 I'm a repeat first time offender C D G Who has rewritten history G

C Mixed up tea leaves, Phantom pain G D Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain G C Getting better every day D C D G If the Brakeman turns my way G Mixed up Signals C Bullet Train G Cars are switched out D In the blinding rain G C He'll be smiling as he seals my fate D C D G When the Brakeman turns my way

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Four Winds Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C Em Your class, your caste, your country, C sect, your name or your tribe G There's people always dying Am trying to keep them alive G His body's decomposing Am in containers tonight C In an abandoned building where Em A squatter's made a mural C of a Mexican girl G With fifteen cans of spray paint Am in a chemical swirl G She's standing in the ashes Am at the end of the world C Four winds blowing through her hair Am D But when great Satan's gone, Am D the whore of Babylon C G She just can't sustain C G the pressure where it's placed Am She caves

Em The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, C the Qu'ran is mute G If you'd burn them all together Am you'd get close to the truth, still G They're pouring over sanskrit Am on the ivy league moons C While shadows lengthen in the sun Em Cast on a school of meditation C built to soften the times G And hold us at the center Am while the spiral unwinds G It's knocking over fences, Am crossing property lines C Four winds, cry until it comes Am D And it's the song of man Am D Slouching towards Bethlehem C G A heart just can't contain C G all of that empty space Am D It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks)

Em Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, C a company jet G Like a newly orphaned refugee, Am retracing my steps G All the way to Cassadega Am to commune with the dead C They said, "You'd better look alive" Em And I was off to old Dakota C where a genocide sleeps G In the black hills, Am the bad lands, the calloused east G Am I buried my ballast, I made my peace C With four winds, levelling the pines Am D But when great Satan's gone, Am D the whore of Babylon C G She just can't remain C G with all that outer space Am D She breaks, she breaks, Am D she caves, she caves. Em

Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D

Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C

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Lua Capo on 2nd

G Well I know that it is freezing C But I think we have to walk G I keep waving to the taxis C They keep turning their lights off Am But julie knows a party D At some actor's westside loft Am C Supplies are endless in the evening Am D G By the morning they'll be gone G When everything gets lonely C I can be my own best friend G I'll grab a coffee and the paper; C Have my own conversations Am With the sidewalk and the pigeons D And my window reflection Am C The mask I polish in the evening, Am D G By the morning looks like shit Am7 And I know you have a heavy heart G I can feel it when we kiss Am7 And many men stronger than me

G Have thrown their backs out Dsus2 Tryin to lift it Am Em But me I’m not a gamble G D C You can count on me to split Am C The love I show you in the evening Am D G By the morning won't exist G You're looking skinny like a model C With your eyes all painted black G You just keep going to the bathroom C Always say you'll be right back Am Well it takes one to know one, kid, D I think you've got it bad Am C But what's so easy in the evening, Am D G By the morning is such a drag. G I've got a flask inside my pocket C We can share it on the train G If you promise to stay conscious C I will try and do the same Am We might die from medication, D But we sure killed all the pain Am C But what was normal in the evening,

Am D G By the morning seems insane. Am7 And I'm not sure what the trouble was G That started all of this Am7 The reasons have run away but G Dsus2 The feeling never did Am Em It's not something I would recommend, G D C But it is one way to live Am C Cause what is simple in the moonlight Am D G By the morning never is Am C What's so simple in the moonlight, Am D Em Now its so complicated. Am C What's so simple in the moonlight, Am C G So simple in the moonlight

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We Are Nowhere (And It's Now) Capo on 4th

G Bm Em D If you hate the taste of wine, G Bm Em D Why do you drink it till your blind G Bm And if you swear that there's C D No truth and who cares, Em D How come you say it like you’re right G Bm Em D Why are you scared to dream of God, G Bm Em D When it's salvation that you want G Bm You see, stars that clear C D Have been dead for years, Em D But the idea just lives on G Bm Em D In our wheels that roll around, G Bm Em D As we move over the ground G Bm And all day it seems C D We've been in between, Em D A past and future town Em D We are nowhere and it's now Em D We are nowhere and it's now C In like a ten minute dream D In the enger seat

G D Em While the world was flying by Em I haven't been gone very long D But it seems like a lifetime

G Bm She says: "These bars are filled C D With things that kill, but now you Em D Probably should have learned"

G Em G Bm G Em G Bm D

Em D Did you forget that yellow bird? Em D How could you forget that yellow bird C She took a small silverese D And pinned it on to me, G D Em And said this one will bring you luck Em I don't know if it's true, D But I keep it for good luck

Am D I been sleeping so strange at night Am D Side effects they don't Am D I been sleeping so strange Am D With a head full of pesticide G Bm Em D G Bm Em D G Bm Em D I got no plans and too much time, G Bm Em D I feel too restless to unwind G Bm I'm always lost in thought C D As I walk the block Em D To my favorite neon-sign G Bm Em D Where the waitress looks concerned, G Bm Em D But she never says a word G Bm Just turns the jukebox on C D And we hum along Em D And I smile back at her G Bm Em D And my friend comes after work, G Bm Em D When the features starts to blurr

G Em G Bm G Em G Bm

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Moab D Em I used up your comion G D So I've come to make a trade D You can hate me G A (A7) but just love me in return D Em And if I know where to find you G D I'll stay out of your way D G I won't come beg to borrow Em A all the happiness you earned Em I'll just slide A back down to the bottom Em While you make your place A in the hills D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal D A Washed under the black tar, Em G gone beneath my wheels D There's nothing A D that the road cannot heal

D Em They say the sun won't burn forever G D but that's a science too exact D I can prove itG A watch, we're crossing the state line D See those headlights Em coming towards us? G D That's someone going back D G To a town they said they'd never, Em A Yeah, they swore it on their lives Em A But you can't break out of a circle Em A That you never knew you were in D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal D A Washed under the black tar, Em G gone beneath my wheels D There's nothing A D that the road cannot heal G Some would spend their precious time Em trying to decorate their lives D Taking measurements

A G for some new look they want G So from one to ten – Em ten's exactly what I am D A G Zero being everything I'm not D Em G Tell me what you like D Em G Is it less than five? D Em G Is it less than five? Cm, G, Cm, G, Cm, Bm, Em, G D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal D There's nothing G D that the road cannot heal A When I make it to Moab Em G I'll get my canteen filled D There's nothing A D that the road cannot heal D A Washed under the black tar, Em G gone beneath my wheels D There's nothing A D that the road cannot heal

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Cape Canaveral

A A E F#m E F#m

A Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole I saw your legends lined up And I never felt more natural E F#m E F#m Apart, I just came apart A Please, please, please sister Socrates you always answer with a question Show some kindness to a petty thief E F#m E F#m Forgive, you did forgive

A Hey, hey, hey mother interstate Can you deliver me from evil Make me honest make me wedding cake E F#m E F#m Atone, I will atone A Wait, wait, wait mighty outer-space All that flying saucer terror

D Watch the migrants smoke E in the old orange grove A And the red rocket blaze D over Cape Canaveral D You’ve been a father to me E In 1960’s speak A D In the comatose joy that we’re on TV Bm While the mountain’s side was shining A Wild colors of my destiny Bm I watched your face age backwards A Changing shape in my memory Bm You taught me victory’s sweet A Even deep in the cheap seats

D Like the Freon cold E out the hotel door A Or the white rocket fade D over Cape Canaveral D You’ve been a daughter to me E your buried shoe-box grief A I felt your poltergeist love D like savannah heat Bm While the waterfall was pouring A Crazy symbols of my destiny Bm I watched your face die backwards A Little baby in my memory Bm You told me victory's sweet A Even deep in the cheap seats

Made me lazy drinking lemonade E F#m E F#m A waste, it just went to waste

D F#m And you don’t judge me D E That’s not your style D F#m But I won’t see you C#m for a little while D F#m And there’s no worries, oh lord D E Whose got time D F#m All these changes are gonna E fill your mind D Like the citrus glow E off the old orange grove A Or the red rocket blaze D over Cape Canaveral D It’s been a nightmare to me E Some 1980’s grief A Gives me parachute dreams D Like old war movies Bm While the universe was drawn A Perfect circles form infinity Bm I watched the stars get smaller A Tiny diamonds in my memory Bm I know that victory is sweet A Even deep in the cheap seats

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Danny Callahan Am

G#m

Am

G#m

G

C Green world, love the chloroform Dm Front porch in the thunderstorm F Dm C Controlled chaos, confused energy C So stop reading the weather charts Dm Stop counting the playing cards F There's no system, Dm C there's no guarantee F That the love you feel G C and carry inside can be ed F But you try, I know you do, G C you still talk to the past Dm G Ask how are you getting on alone C Some wander the wilderness Dm some drink cosmopolitans F Some cold science, Dm C some glean astroplanes

C I can't tell where the camera stops Dm homesick as an astronaut F Just keep drifting, Dm C but still can't explain

Dm G Where are you going to alone Dm G Where are you going all alone C

F How the love we feel G C we carry inside can be ed F See a brother in the gutter G C and reach out your hand Dm G Ask how are you getting on alone C What gauge measures miracles Dm Whose heartbeat's electrical F We feign sickness Dm C with our modern joy C But even Western medicine Dm It couldn't save Danny Callahan F Dm C Bad bone marrow, the poor little boy F But the love he feels G C he carries inside can be ed F He lay still, his mother G C kissed him goodbye, said comeback

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Get-Well-Cards G A peacock, people Bm left the plumes in a pile C Em They look good to fold G And the Gulf water's warm Bm like a bathtub C D Full of lavender and epsom salt G See a bleach blond boy Bm put his longboard down C Em Help his girl get her sunscreen on G I thought about you Bm in your little house C Think you're lonely D but I could be wrong and... C D I wanna be a bootlegger C D Wanna mix you up something strange C D Braid your hair like a sister C D Maim you like a hurricane G D Right there, that's the postman C Em sleeping in the sand

G D He's got a letter to deliver, C D but I can't stay mad G D Right there, that's the postman C Em sleeping in the sand G D He's got a get-well-card to deliver C Am He's gonna do it by hand, C G he's gonna do it by hand Bm C Em G Now they drive the cars Bm up and down the beach C Em It's ridiculous and everybody knows G Hear the Mustangs rev Bm at the four way stop C You get ghosted D when the light says go G But in a town like this, Bm in the checkered flag dawn C It's so empty you could Em make somebody dream G So maybe it's you, Bm in your four-post bed

C Fell asleep with still D the blood in your teeth and... C D I wanna be your happiness C D I wanna be your common sense pain C D Wrap your head in a picket fence C D Rebuild after the hurricane G D Right there, that's the postman C Em sleeping in the sand G D He's got my letters to deliver, C D but I'm still not mad G D Right there, that's the postman C Em asleep in the sand G D He's got a get-well-card to deliver C Am He's gonna do it by hand, C Am He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it C Am He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it C Am He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it G by hand

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Nikorette D G D I'm just trying to stay a human being D G D sitting in the sun, eating ice cream D texting my friend G D about a bad, bad dream D just trying to find G D someone who knows me D but I don’t got time G D for your cuckoo clock D and I don’t want to go G D to your mason lodge D there’s nothing more sad G D than a lynching mob D full of rational men G D G D who believe in god A but nothing makes sense when the wave rolls through nothing makes sense D when the wave comes through A well, if there’s something in me, well, I know it’s in you if there’s something in me, D well, I bet it’s in you D my neighbor dreams big G D ‘cause his house is small

D G D says all he needs now is some capital D it’s a pirate world, G D it’s a free-for-all D they take your bright ideas G D and they make them dull D but everyone I see G D I think I've known before D from the opera house G D to the grocery store D G D my love for them I cannot ignore D G D like a human voice in a quiet morgue A but I don’t want to wear no dead man’s suit I don’t want to wear D G D no dead man’s suit A I don’t want to wait 'til the moon gets blue I don’t want to wait D 'til the moon turns blue Bm A it’s all just a fix, Bm A just one little hit, D you’re holding in D G D sitting on a plane, chewing nicorette D G D paradise lost, haven’t found it yet D G D will you talk me down if I get upset,

D be a cool washcloth G D to my fevered head? A ‘cause I don’t want to dream if it won’t come true I don’t want to dream D if it don’t come true A if there’s something in me, well, I guess it’s in you if there’s somewhere in me, D then I know it’s in you Bm A it’s all just a fix, Bm A just one little hit, D you’re holding in D you’re holding in, you’re holding in, D you’re holding in A and I don’t want to dream if it won’t come true I don’t want to dream D if it don’t come true A if there’s something in me, well, I guess it’s in you if there’s somewhere in me, D then I know it’s in you A if it happens to me, it’s gonna happen to you whatever happens to me, D it’s gonna happen to you

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Milk Thistle C Bm C D G C D Em C D C

Bm Milk thistle, milk thistle, C D G Let me down slow, C D Em Help me go slow, C D I've been carryin' on, C G I'm not scared of nothin', C G I'll go pound for pound, C G I keep death on my mind, C D Like a heavy crown. C D If I go to heaven, C D I'll be bored as hell, C D Like a little baby, Am G At the bottom of a well.

C

Bm Fair child, fair child, C D G How are you man? C D Em Did you fix that storefront? C D Did you start that band? C G Don't be scared of nothin', C G You go pound for pound, C G You'll bring peace to midnight, C D Like a spotted owl. C D I'll be rootin' for you, C D Like my favourite team, C D If somebody sweats you, Am G You just point 'em out to me.

C

Am All the sights and sounds,

B7 This little world's too crowded now, C D G And there's only one way out. C Am An elevator ride, B7 Through the tunnel towards the light C D G And I’m nowhere bound, C Em D Keep going up and down, C Em G Up and down. C

Bm Newspaper, newspaper C D G Can't take no more, C D Em You're here every morning, C D Waitin' at my door. C G I'm just tryin' to kiss you, C G And you stab my eyes, C G Make me blue forever, C D Like an Island sky. C D And I'm not pretending, C D That it's all okay, C D Just let me have my coffee, Am G Before you take away the day. C

Bm Lazarus, Lazarus, C D G Why all the tears? C D Em Did your faithful chauffer C D Just disappear? C G What a lonesome feeling, C G To be just waitin' round, C G Like some washed up actress, C D In a Tinseltown.

C D But for the record, C D I'd come pick you up, C D We'll head for the ocean, Am G Just say when you've had enough. C Am All the light and sound, B7 This little world's too fragile now, C D G And there's only one way out. C Am But if you let me slide, B7 I'll do my best to make things right C D G And I’m nowhere bound, C Em D Just going up and down, C Em G Up and down. C

Bm Milk thistle, milk thistle, C D G Let me down slow, C D Em Just help me go slow, C D I've been hurrying on. C G I was poised for greatness, C G I was down and out C G I keep death at my heels C D Like a basset hound C D If I go to heaven, C D I'll be bored as hell, C D Like a crying baby, Am G At the bottom of a well.

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Souled Out! D D G A G A

(x3)

Verse: D Bm A The Barrio starts two streets over D Bm A Miguel, he's a friend of mine D Bm A With brick weed built a reputation G A Like dry ice in the summertime D Bm A Now all you need is an electric razor D Bm A A magic bullet and a grassy knoll D The whole world Bm A is just a little oyster G A To Snow White and her Poisoned Apples D D G A G A

G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G A All souled out! In heaven! D D G A G A

(x3)

D Bm A The Barrio starts two streets over D Bm A Monse, she's a friend of mine D Bm A Keeps it peace like a whistle blower G A Flying kites in the wintertime D Bm A Magic carpet is the transportation D Bm A Went to the moon in a soda can D Bm A Not all my boys believe in science G A Stretching truth in the Promised Land

(x3)

D Bm A I woke up in the age of wires D Bm A I fell asleep at the dusk of man D Bm A Now I'm cold as Popocatepetl G A Fingers crossed in the Promised Land G D A But you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now)

G D A But you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G A All souled out! In heaven! D D G A (x3) G A D D G A (x3) G A

G D A You know by now G D A You know by now G D A You know by now G A G D A But you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G A All souled out! In heaven! G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G D A No you won't be getting in (You know by now) G A To heaven G D A To heaven (You know by now) G D A To heaven (You know by now) G D A (You know by now) G A To heaven G D A G D A G D A G A

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Loose Leaves A The story is in the soil Loose leaves cover the ground There are volumes in the forest No one reads out loud F#m If I could take them down Off of that mountain shelf E We used to climb but no one tries To go up that far now A Yeah, we're all too busy working Entertaining ourselves Forty hours, television And prescription pills F#m Well, I take two a day To make my brain behave E It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid A So that is fine, yeah, come by We'll take the afternoon off We can kiss and undress Or if you want just talk F#m Because I have got nothing real Just empty space to fill E And you are my girl I like your style Just imagine all the time A we could kill D E And time is not poison A F#m But once you drink it all, you'll die E So let's just sip it real slow, yeah

We can nurse it all night Try to believe that once it's gone They will pour another round A We will come back to life F#m E

A F#m that I know what I want E But I know what I don't Don't want to rot in my room And never know what could have been

A It's all moving fast now, yeah And that's what they say And though some days still take forever I can't disagree F#m Because it seems to me That I wake up and sleep E Look in the mirror and have no idea What happened in between A But I counting days down Until the year could be done So I could scatter all my notebooks On the prep school lawn F#m And disappear into a summer's bliss E Of staying out and sleeping in And getting drunk with my friends A And that's gone and I know That it won't ever come back I accept I won't cling to what I had in the past F#m But life is a slippery slope Regret is the steepest hill E Hope for the best plan for the worst And maybe wind up A somewhere in the middle D E And I'm not saying

Believe what everyone F#m else tells me is true E They will say, "True" F#m They will say, "True" A

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MISCHIEF BREW

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The Midnight Special 2002 G

C Well, let the Midnight Special G Shine her light on me. D7 Let the Midnight Special G Shine her ever-lovin' light on me. C Well, you wake up in the mornin', G And it's the same old thing. D7 G Dehumanization, by the inhumane. C The warden's dog is treated better, G And I can't take it no more. D7 I think it's time to turn some pages, G No more to study war! C Well, let the Midnight Special G Shine her light on me. D7 Let the Midnight Special G Shine her ever-lovin' light on me. C If you're gonna run for office, G Then it's TV time. D7 Before you mention schools or service G Let's talk about crime!

C Say you'll sweep 'em into prisons, G Whether they're sixty or ten. D7 Politicians throw a party G When they're put to death! C Well, let the Midnight Special G Shine her light on me. D7 Let the Midnight Special

C Well, let the Midnight Special G Shine her light on me. D7 Let the Midnight Special Shine her ever-lovin', G ever-lovin' light on me...

G Shine her ever-lovin' light on me. C It's a billion-dollar business, G It's a boomin' field. D7 It's a good stock investment, G Such bloomin' yields. C Positions in the corporations, G Down in old steel town. D7 Seems like everybody's happy, G 'Cept those locked up and locked down C Well, let the Midnight Special G Shine her light on me. D7 Let the Midnight Special G Shine her ever-lovin' light on me.

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Mr. Crumb

B* A#m* G F# Em stealing from his sleep at night

* - barre chord Em* B* x4 Em* Crumb, a salty man Gm* chase the children off his land Em* Swore he'd never wear a tie Gm* used to tell our mother why Em* His walls were twisted frames Gm* Perfect in their out-of-place B* A#m* Every chore a leaky pipe B* A#m* G F# Em stealing from his sleep at night Em* Gm* x2 Em* Crumb, A solo act Gm* only one to stab a back Em* Swore he'd never wear a tag Gm* and fill up someone's shopping bag Em* Curse, a second trip, Gm* screaming babies, damn kids B* A#m* Creep around, seal the cracks B* A#m* From the wicked social draft B* A#m* Every chore a leaky pipe

Em* Am* Em* B* Em* Am* B* A#m* B* Em* Crumb, drop the tools Gm* Cobbler finally made his shoes Em* Swore he'd never wear a suit Gm* And fetch the coins the bosses threw Em In the forest, on the farm Gm* Earned the muscle in his arm B* A#m* No blood in his wine B* A#m* Never gave the lords a dime B* A#m* Creep around, seal the cracks B A#m* From the wicked social draft B* A#m* Every chore a leaky pipe B* A#m* G F# Em stealing from his sleep at night Em Am Em B7 Em Am B A#m B A* G* F# Dm* And when he goes A#* Dm* He wants to die alone A#* F he'll dig his own damn hole A# F A7 and said don't spend a thing Dm* and 'carry on

A#* Dm* leaving me alone A#* F scratched on the stone: A# C A7* pissed off, and dead, and free (and free) Em* Gm* x2 Em* Crumb, a dying man Gm* What's the use, his only stance Em* Swore he'd never wear a gown Gm* In no ward would he go down Em* And just as he had always said Gm* He dug his own damn grave B A#m* And there you'll find him every night B A#m* Waiting just to fall inside B* A#m* No blood in his wine B* A#m* Never gave the lords a dime B* A#m* Creep around, seal the cracks B A#m* From the wicked social draft B* A#m* Every chore a leaky pipe B* A#m* G F# Em stealing from his sleep at night Em Am Em B7 Em Am B A# B A G F# Em

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The Barrel D A G Bm G A Em D G D A G Bm G A D D G D G My candy shop's a factory D A D left in the woods to die D Bm Beneath this settled dust, D A D a fertile field of treasure lies. Bm G We the scavengers are hunting Bm G for the beautiful decay, D G towards the bottom of the barrel, D A at the market for the fleas, G Bm stale boxcars on their railroads G A Em won over by the weeds. D G Raid the scrapyard like a garden, D A wring life from rusty bones. G Bm My candy shop is a vacant lot G A D where anything may grow. D A G Bm G A D

D G D G Weeping clowns with cracklin' brows D A D piled in the old arcade. D Bm Now the children are all workers, D A D still dreaming about play. Bm While the freaks stomp through G Bm the wasteland pulling flowers G from the graves. D G towards the bottom of the barrel, D A at the market for the fleas, G Bm stale boxcars on their railroads G A Em won over by the weeds. D G Raid the scrapyard like a garden, D A wring life from rusty bones. G Bm My candy shop is a vacant lot G A D where anything may grow. A Bm Bm Bm Bm

G G G G G

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D A G Bm G A Em D G D A G Bm G A D

A A A A

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Em Em Em Em

D G Like a vessel underwater, D A old mills and broken glass. G Bm Like a pick-up in the backyard, G A Em tree winding through the cab. Bm G This takes me down the backroads, Bm G from the mansion to the shack. D G From the bottom of the barrel, D A here's something someone saved, G Bm and we bring it to the table, G A Em wonder what we're gonna make. D G Your scrapyard, my garden, D A or so the saying goes. G Bm You turn water into dead things G A D and I'll make the dead things grow... G A D Make the dead things grow G A Em Make the dead things grow D A G Bm G A Em D G D A G Bm G A D

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Gimme Coffee Or Death G B7 C7 F C7 x4 G

B7

It could have been C7 just like any other day F C7 If not for the drug raids. G B7 They seemed so normal C7 F C7 as they were cuffed and hauled away. G B7 Who could have thought? C7 We should have known. F C7 G Such a nice family, but it's all a show. B7 It could have been C7 just like any other day F C7 G if not for the blood in the rain.

C7 G wrists are being slapped" B7 So I cranked down the window C7 as I rolled past: F C7 G "Get a boss, take a bath." B7 That's what the others shouted C7 while I blared the horn, F with my fist in the air C7 G and my gas to the floor. C G Give me death or give me rain. C G C G D I feel so numb better give me pain. G C G Bomb threats and hurricanes, C G or a new berry flavor C G D from the coffee tray

G B7 C7 F C7 G B7 C7 F C7 x2 G

B7 It could have been

C7 just your everyday commute. F And then I heard the sirens C7 G and I flipped on the news B7 "Disobedient civilians C7 have all lanes damned, F arrests are being made,

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B7 It could have been

C7 just your forgotten school day, F if not for the drills C7 G and the bells that saved. B7 The fire started C7 F C7 some place cool and safe

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B7 Who could have thought? C7 We should have known! F C7 G "Thousands dead!" the leaders spoke. B7 I pulled at their cuffs C7 while they were at each other's throats: F C G "Does this mean I get to go home?" C G Give me death or give me rain. C G C G D I feel so numb better give me pain. G C G Bomb threats and hurricanes, C G or a new berry flavor C G D G from the coffee tray C G Give me death or give me rain. C G C G D I feel so numb better give me pain. G C G Bomb threats and hurricanes, C G or a new berry flavor C G D from the coffee tray, sing out! C G C G D Liberty is too much strain.

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B7 It could have been

C7 just like any other day F C7 G if not for the blood in the rain.

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Nomads Revolt Capo on 3rd D F# Bm G D F# Bm G D F# Bm G

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Bm A We'd go down to throw rocks D at the river, Bm A G Curses at the parade Bm A Wedge a stone in the gears G of the clockworks A D Try to keep us from acting our age Bm A D Swore we'd carry on like this forever, Bm A G 'til the free spirits bled. Bm A G But now can you believe who's a mother, A and that so-and-so's D cut of their dreads... F# Bm G Kill of Columbus D F# Bm G D F# and turn the world around, after all, Bm A D the nomads are settling down D Bm A D Bm A D

Bm A Used to give most the bread D to a landlord, Bm A G leave the crust for the squats. Bm A G Now the death-wages we pay the bankers,

A D Seem to kill all the flies in one swat Bm A D Hear the wedding band strike up a number, Bm A G Dear they're playing our song. Bm Hold your breath A G cause we're gonna go under; A D get the little ones singing along. F# Bm G Kill of Columbus D F# Bm G D F# and turn the world around, after all, Bm A D the nomads are settling down x2 F# after all, Bm A D the nomads are settling down D G Bm No way! Not to so-and-so, D A said he'd never change G Bm A said he'd never grow. G Bm He'd stay always on a roll, D A run besides the trains, G Bm A past the mossy stones. A Now there's more hope than ever G and its all fallin' down Em D G and the rebels are running for mayor D Bm A D Bm A G Bm A G A D in your hometown.

Bm A And I've stopped throwing rocks G at the river. A D Now you'll find me a swimmin' upstream Bm A D There is power in unions of ramblers Bm A G that got nothing to own. Bm But there's more in one A G fist-swinging mother swearin, A D "my children shall never be sold!" F# Bm G Kill of Columbus D F# Bm G D F# and turn the world around, after all, Bm A D the nomads are settling down x2 F# after all, Bm A D the nomads are settling down F# Bm G D F# Bm G Out of the garden, we multiply. D F# Bm G D F# Telling our stories. Bm G D F# Bm G May all the old ways die. D

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Bm A D As the nomads are dropping their anchors Bm A G Falling into the sea.

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Reinvention of the Printing Press G G Em C x2 G machinery mill us G forever will rule us Em C until we find out how you're wired G gods no longer read through the hands of the dead Em C it's safe now to question the friar G if they'd stopped at the wheel, Am C we'd never have swung in this tire G beyond middle ages left village for nation Em C this masterpiece our fathers penned G too dark to see, the old tyme tyrrany Em C may the bulb never burn out again G Am now that we know now everything that C we didn't know then Em D The book was the lash C G And the word was the law Em D But the tyrranny ended C G With ink on a block

C G but don't put it in park C D with miles to go G need a match! C D G nevermore shall we read in the dark C C C B

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G Gargantua's hungry, His fork and knife drummin’ Em C But what if we served him no more? G If just for a day we took over this place Em To find out where C our harvest are stored G Am Laugh like a king while you can C ‘til the bastions are stormed

C D with miles to go G need a match! C D G nevermore shall we read in the dark Em D The book was the lash C G And the word was the law Em D But the tyrranny ended C G With ink on a block C G but don't put it in park C D with miles to go G need a match! C D G nevermore shall we read in the dark C G D G Nevermore, in the dark C G D Nevermore in the dark C G D G Nevermore, in the dark B F G Nevermore in the dark

Em D The book was the lash C G And the word was the law Em D But the tyrranny ended C G With ink on a block C G but don't put it in park

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A Rebel's Romance G Goodnight my dear, C Lay aside songs of spite and fear G We lovers are bound C Completing the circle and G D Waltzing around G Your words soothe as fire D Roaring and washing the tinsel From liars C And with every kiss D Solace and bliss G Will not seem so rare C A rebel's embrace D Shall give us a taste G Of truth that is masked by a D Am Sly poker face Em C G A spirit is well and alive C D G Live, and we will survive C A rebel's embrace D Shall give us a taste G Of truth that is masked by a

D Am Sly poker face Em C G A spirit is well and alive C D G Live, and we will survive G Goodnight, my love, C The moon she shines from above G So forget all the rough C Rejoice, and revolt with love, G D When you rise up G Your words soothe as water D Carving a path through

D Shall give us a taste G Of truth that is masked by a D Am Sly poker face Em C G A spirit is well and alive C D C Live, and we'll be so well and G C D C Alive, live, and we'll be so well and G C D G Alive, live, and we will survive.

Mountains and mortar C To shatter the ground, D Walls of silence with sound G With lions and doves C A rebel's embrace D Shall give us a taste G Of truth that is masked by a D Am Sly poker face Em C G A spirit is well and alive C D G Live, and we will survive C A rebel's embrace

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Liberty Unmasked

G And this pattern

G C Come see pioneers starving on trout Em Meet the drunkards of spirit, D G of soil, of stout G But old silent fires C shall someday bathe all Em D A cider ferments in us all

C across our great quilt, Em D for ages to span

Final call! G Hear the prophets C whose days have gone dim Em And for all royal silver, D she still won’t wed him G Hear the bastards, C yes among us, they go Em All flaunting freedoms D G C Em D so scarcely known G D G C How I see, merrily, G D C The unmasking of liberty G D G C As she bows to misery, G But her open hands, C Em D The joy and dance

G You’re a traveller Em Armour of rage in a G And you never could

C packing for years D G shower of tears see

C that you were wild and loose Em ‘Til a baby blue soldier D forbid you to choose G Now you cry, “Off with these systems C And off with these laws! Em Bring on the seasons, D tradition, and song! G The patterns and cycles! C We, hitchers of stars, Em shall reel in adventure D To shatter these boards G C Em D To march from these wars G D G C How I see, merrily, G D C The unmasking of liberty G D G C As she bows to misery,

G But her open hands, C Em D The joy and dance G And this pattern C across our great quilt, Em D for ages to span G C But her open hands, Em D the joy and dance G And this pattern C across our great quilt Em D For ages to span

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All Used Up By Utah Phillips A I spent my whole life Making sombody rich, D Busted my ass E For that son of a bitch, A And he left me to die D Like a dog in a ditch, E A And he told me im all used up. D He used up my labor, A He used up my time, D Plundered my body E And squandered my mind, A And he gave me a pention D Of hand outs and wine, E A And he told me im all used up. A My kids are in hock To a god you call Work D Slaving their lives out E For some other jerk A And my youngest in 'Frisco D Just made shipping-clerk E A He don't know I'm all used up D Some young people reach out A For power and gold D And they don't have respect

E For anything old A For pennies they're bought, D For promises sold E A Someday they'll be used up D They use up the oil, A They use up the trees D They use up the air E And they use up the seas A But how about you, friend, D And how about me E A What's left, when we're all used up A I'll finish my life In this crummy hotel D It's lousy with bugs E And my God, what a smell A But my plumbing still works D And I'm clear as a bell E A Don't tell me I'm all used up A Outside my window the world es by D It gives me a handout, E Then spits in my eye A And no one can tell me, D 'Cause no one knows why E A I'm still living, but I'm all used up D A Sometimes in a dream I sit by a tree

D My life is a book E Of how things used to be A And the kids gather 'round D And they listen to me E A They don't think I'm all used up A And there's songs and there's Laughter and things I can do D And all that I've learned E I can give back to you A And I'd give my last breath D Just to make it come true E A And to know I'm not all used up D They use up the oil, A They use up the trees D They use up the air E And they use up the seas A But as long as I'm breathing D They won't use up me E A Don't tell me I'm all used up

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Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell [Chorus]: C F I am a leader, but you C G will not follow me C F I ain't no preacher, C G for I'm full of blasphemy C F C See you in hell boys, C F C See you in hell boys C /Dm Am G x2 Hey!

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C Like an angel who'd been dancing Am G with some devils C I'm a bad girl with a hope Am G for better days C Am G My laughter is spiced with mischief C I won't toss salt, Am G kiss it up, or pray C When you offer pink or blue, Am G I'll take the blackest C When you offer only two, Am G I'll offer three C When you point me in a direction,

Am G I'll run backwards C And at the border of utopia, Am G I'll toast to anarchy

I'm coming home to you Well I'm picking the bones out of my dinner stew Open up the gates of hell and roll me through Fire and rock, I'm coming home to you

Dm F Cause fire and rock, Dm I'm coming home to you, F Well, I’m picking the bones out of my dinner stew Dm C Am Open up the gates of hell G F And roll me through G Fire and rock, I'm coming home to you

[Chorus]

C Hey!

/Dm Am G x2

[C, Am, G]: So you're saying Satan's army's ri soon Well if it is, I'm the secretary of no state! I've got wrenches, rocks, and bottles in my tool pouch And my desire is society's jail bait Cause there's tons of guys moping 'bout the work day Dimes by the dozen, their song weighs a thousand pounds, But there's nothing like a lady with a buzzsaw “I just might build your house, but I just might tear it down” [Dm, F, etc] Cause fire and rock,

Slow down: [C, Am, G] Yes barkeep, I will surely have another To the witches, to the goblins, and the trolls I'll be coming to recruit your rebel children There ain't no use in locking doors, there's one of me in every home [Dm, F, etc] With mud on my boots, and blood on my jeans I'll take those pretty dresses, tear them at the seams Roll me through the gates of hell, ahh please And I'll be back in your daughter's dreams C F I am a leader, but you C G will not follow me C F I ain't no preacher, C G for I'm full of blasphemy C F C G See you in hell boys, C F C G See you in hell boys C See you in hell boys, haha!

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For an Old Kentucky Anarchist C Am F G C Am F G C C F High upon a forgotten mountain top, Am G lay a garden, untended and dry C 'twas a yard that hadn't felt G Am children's feet running, for the G F G mother long ago, thaught her children C how to fly C Within a simple cabin, F untouched by industrial hands Am G Sat the aging mother in her home C G You can’t escape the picture frames, Am G there’s too many, she said F G C They keep me from being alone C Am F G C Well she spoke, F Am "he was an honest man, he worked hard G to put food on our plates C G Am Well we had more babies than we had G F arms, we struggled all our lives

G C But the rewards were great C F And when my son came home from the Am G war, he rested his head on my breast C G And said, “mom, I’m tired of being Am G F used and grinded down, I feel so low G Can you make me feel C like I’m the best?” Well my best friend truly wed a savage man, he wore her like a bad tattoo For his only love was for the bottle, she said there’s only one thing left for me to do To be wild once again, to take back my life and run away, set flames to his truck He won’t ever know he’s been missing I did every day, joy freedom, dance, and love C Am F G Dance and love..." These are the stories that this mother spoke to me, As I brought her garden back to grow. I was rewarded with a warm meal Tales never to be heard, some call it poverty, but they’ll never know She said “All I’ve got is my stories and this old guitar, my crops have all come and gone away, I’ve got a head full of recipies, enticing to the taste and a liking to wake up and greet the day

Got bad back from raising my children, from hugging my husband so tight Hell, I’ve never cared much for any government, I’ve got my jesus when I feel the time is right, Singin’ I’m the richest I'll ever be, I embrace the world I have all around me, C G So sing a dying song, and Am G F slap your knee, Have a taste of true G C Anarchy C Am F G Yeah, anarchy C Am F G C

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Departure Arrival C No, I could never fall Am asleep on a train C All the time dreamin' Am G 'bout moving away F Am Finally awake, I wonder F Am "What if I pulled the emergency G brake?" C Doors are still open and Am I wish they would shut C Then I could stop thinking Am G "should I jump down and run?" F Am Only on page ten, F And I think I gotta start Am G all over again F C When the tape slows down, G Am it means the battery's dead F C May your songs never get stuck Am G outta my head F C If I ever fall asleep, G Am I'll my dream,

G Where everybody's there, Am and nobody leaves G Where everybody's there, Am G F And nobody leaves C G F C C G C C Something below me starts Am cranking to life C The platform moves backwards Am G 'til it's outta my sight F Am The tracks start to split F I've got another 10 hours Am G 'til my next cigarette C Biked 'round the city 'bout a Am billion times C And now a few seconds left Am G until I leave it behind F Am F Almost at the end, I close my eyes, Am G and we fall over the edge

F C May your songs never get stuck Am G outta my head F C If I ever fall asleep, G Am I'll my dream, G Where everybody's there, Am and nobody leaves G Where everybody's there, Am G F C And nobody leaves

F C When the tape slows down, G Am it means the battery's dead

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The Lowly Carpenter D G Come labor get ready D Bm to dance for your bread D G D My son, I was once where you stand D G There's a beast with insatiable D Bm hunger, its minions D A Need crafters and skilled D working hands D G D Needs a fortress high in the hilltops D G A And we are the great chosen crew D G D Bm But I am a lowly carpenter so D A G what have I power to do |G |A | D| D G D Bm Oh misery call us to rise up at dawn, D G D to turn ‘way as fast as we can D G D We may be the mortar that cradles the Bm D A D brick but I am just one grain of sand D G And don't tell me of tossing the D D Wrenches. It only brings G A pleasure and pain D G D Bm And we are all lowly carpenters so

D A where we're taken is where G we'll remain |G |A | D| D G And the masters shall govern with D Bm unbroken backs D G D Look down from the top of the hill D G You can cry through the night just as D Bm much as you'd like D A D There will always be towers to build D I could've been more than some G D stone dragging vessel D I could be more than their G A wood cutting slave D G D Bm But we are all lowly carpenters so D A G what have we power to change

G Build their mansions A D from cellar to roof D G We've got hammers and wrenches and D chisels D G We could destroy any great wall A we come to D G D Bm But I am a lowly carpenter so D A G what have I power to do |G |A | D|

|G |A | D| D G And if you can't take no more then D Bm get out of the way D G D For we've got a day to get through D G We wire their castles, D Bm their prisons and banks

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Anti-Lullaby D We are bouncing and dancing G as you sing your lullaby D G Shouting 'move' when you say 'stay' D The tune of your flute G is a rifle you shoot D G That lays us all down to be prey. A They love you, we hate you, G They made you, D G D we brake you today, ya-ha G D G A G Break it away, ya-ha-haa D We are painting the walls, G making jokes out of laws D Hiding sleeping pills G under our tongues D Shut the light, close the door, G We spit them to the floor D Then we're hummin' and a-strummin' G and a-bangin' on drums A G What did you know when you said D G D we are wasting away? ya-ha

G D G A G D G D G D G A G How could you say? D G How could you say we just waste away, waste away? D G Big table, not big enough... D G How could you say we just waste away, waste away? D G Hummin' and a-strummin' and a-bangin' A G A-bangin' on drums, D yeah yeah yeah yeah!

G D this wonderous place G D A And its treasures we intend to keep. D So now when they say we just G waste away, waste away D G You can say 'hey, it's not so.' D G Why is it then that we're growing and growing and growing and growing, A G And showing them all what we know? yeah yeah yeah yeah! D G D G D G A G D G D G D G A G

G D G D G A G D G D G D G A G D We will not be lulled into G D slumber by you, G D A We will not be lulled into sleep. D For we've had a taste of G D this wonderous place G D A And its treasures we intend to keep. Bm Em We will not be lulled into slumber G A We will not be lulled into sleep D For we've had a taste of G D this wonderous place G D A And its treasures we intend to keep. D For we've had a taste of

D We will not be lulled into G D G D A slumber by you, la-dadadaa D For we've had a taste of G D G D A this wonderous place, la-dadadada Bm Bm Em Em G A We will not be lulled into sleep D For we've had a taste of G D this wonderous place G D A And its treasures we intend to keep. D For we've had a taste of G D this wonderous place G D A And its treasures we intend to keep. |D |D |G D|G D|A D|

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Old Tyme Mem'ry D G When father bought the farm, Bm we sold the farm A G Mistook his blood for rustic charm A G Sold his ghost as an antique A to the city D G Bm Kids today can’t hold a spade A G Rest in peace, y’ole weary trades A G In this world, there is no place, A such a pity D G Well, the barman shakes his head Bm and fills my glass A G Says we’re living in the past A G “Why preserve a dying craft? A End its misery.” D G Bm We sigh and say ‘another modern man A G One of property, not land’ A G I’ll hold out this battered hand, A will you listen? [Chorus]: D G Come sit down, we’re lamenting D G About yesterday’s sad ending Bm G ‘Bout the water in m’whiskey

Bm G The brass ed off as gold A D G Another round, we’re descending into D G olde tyme mem’ry Bm G Of a day when wood was wooden Bm G Silver silver, gold was gold A D G |Bm A|G A|G A| Sweet home was home D G So you say you got a wood stove Bm in your second home A G Runs on gas but looks like oak A G Hell, it even gives off smoke A and glowing embers D G There’s a quilt hung on the wall, Bm Reads ‘Home Sweet Home’ A G Below, some wise words from Thoreau A G And they call me a throwback when A I cry to [Chorus] |D G|Bm A|G A|G A| x5 D G Bm Son, these tools are artefacts A G Endangered species left its tracks A G So lock me up behind plastic glass A in the city D G Bm There’s no going back for me

A G This antique’s rustic eulogy A G Shall be sold as ‘folk artistry’, A such a pity D G Bm But I’ll never understand A G Why they all long to use those hands A To build a stead that will always G A stand in olde tyme country D G But settle for white rooms Bm and hollow doors A G Paper ceilings, padded floors A G Luxury boxes where you’re stored A In what was country D G Come sit down, we’re lamenting D G About yesterday’s sad ending Bm G ‘Bout the water in m’whiskey Bm G The brass ed off as gold A D G Another round, we’re descending into D G olde tyme mem’ry Bm G Of a day when wood was wooden Bm G Silver silver, gold was gold A D G |Bm A|G A|G A| Sweet home was home D

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Against C G/B Am F No more songs against the war C Emaj7 Too many already and I don’t Am F want to sing them anymore C G/B Am F It’s F-U-C- K 1-2-3-4, hey Joe C where can I go Emaj7 With two cents in my hands Am F for billionaires and oil lords F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C G/B To never sing against war again F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C G/B To never sing against war again C G/B Am F How can any of us sleep C Emaj7 When slaughter’s what it takes Am F To show such strength and human unity C G/B Am To bring us all into the streets F C I know I told you that I wouldn’t Emaj7 march no more

Am F But strange how yesterday repeats

F G C G/B To never sing against war again

F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C G/B To never sing against war again F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C G/B To never sing against war again C G/B Am While the east was being won F C Emaj7 Good little patriots were scared Am To wonder how their country F might be run C G/B It’s because of all their bombs Am and guns F C We’ve got a million songs Emaj7 against the war Am F And I hate every one of them

C G/B Liberation Am missiles of C G/B Liberation Am missiles of C G/B Liberation Am missiles of C G/B Liberation Am missiles of

F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C G/B To never sing against war again F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques

by the F democracy by the F democracy by the F democracy by the F democracy

F Am Em These songs for peace, how I wish F Am they turn into antiques F G C To never sing against war again

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Every Town Will Celebrate |C* |F Am|G |F C|x2 |C |A#maj7 Am|G |F C| |C |A#maj7 Am|G |G F|C |G [no chords] Well, big bad man come into town Givin’ sweets to the children, pushed their daddies around Made the streets so bright in the zones of blight No more fear in the hearts of whites C* F Am He built a hall, put on a show, from G F C high above, watched his boulders roll C* Then he bought Main Street F Am and the old town hall G He named his price: F his face on every wall. Am G F Am G Ohhh, his face on every wall... C* F Am Now the factories have all shut down G F C No more cloth stitched in this town C* F Am So the only job for boy and I, G F C in the prison making tile shine C* F Am Someday that man will come here too, G F C with that magic hat, spit and glue C* He’ll wash the stone,

F Am paint the brick, G Rename the streets and F Am G make the clocks all tick... On time F Am G He'll make us run on time

G Some days I wish that F I could go back again Am G F Am G Noooo, I can’t go back again

C F G C* And every town will celebrate someday F Waving sweatshop flags Am G and grande lattes Dm F Wearing culture on their backs, G Am wearing spirit on their hats C* F G C One by one they’ll the parade G and celebrate C F G C G Every town will celebrate someday

C Just like they do in Florida Am F Down in Celebration, Florida G# And when every road is Cm |G |G | Main Street, U.S.A. C* We’ll be safely kept at bay Am F From any disruption or display G# Cm G Cm Of truth, adventure, love and rage G# Cm G Cm Truth, adventure, love and rage G# Cm G G Truth, adventure, love and rage

[Intro] C* F Am Now corners near and corners far G F C Are somehow the same coffee bar C* F Am And community is felt again G F C Thanks to folks I’ve never met C* They slayed the artists, F Am sold their arts, G F C Gave the toddlers shopping carts C* F Am Raised the prices, raised the rent

[Chorus]

[Chorus] C F G Every Town will celebrate, C F G Every Town will celebrate, C F G C Every Town will celebrate someday!

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What Reason Have They to Dance? G Today in a village of famine, D A feast was had by all So stop all the presses C D and listen for the riots and brawls G But no rifles were aimed at comrades, C Only at our fascist lords D There were ghosts of Winstanley’s farmers C When they were wielding D Ploughs not swords G C What reason have they to dance And to sing? D Their pockets are all empty, C D They've no stewards, queens or kings G No bosses, laws or order C Marching armies must we bring D To give them all a reason C Now to dance D And to sing!

G Hush scholar of history, D Do not write a word We'll make repetition Out of precedents, C D See that this dream goes deferred G Tell of insatiable greed within us C And how the rebellion didn't work D So in a hundred years it's forgotten C D Shift the tale and shift the worth G C What reason have they to dance And to sing? D Their pockets are all empty, C D They've no stewards, queens or kings G No bosses, laws or order C Marching armies must we bring D To give them all a reason C Now to dance D And to sing!

G Where the women took up arms C To kill the fascists to protect life D Where the food was freed at last C D For all the people's fork and knife G C 'Tis the reason they have to dance And to sing D Their pockets are all empty, C D They've no stewards, queens or kings G No bosses, laws or order, C D Everyone has everything D Each day gives them a reason now C D To dance and to sing! G

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Coffee, God And Cigarettes D I used to worship whiskey, Bm now I only drink the lord, G D And I take my coffee cream A and seven sugars. D Before we meet we stand out Bm on the sidewalk as it pours, G D A Swapping one addiction for another. D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A just to break this routine. D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A D Just to be, as free as me. D When I run into my old friends Bm still drinking from that cup, G D I never stay to long A 'lest I be tempted. I say;

D “You know you drink the devil's brew. Bm You know its just a crutch. G D No longer must you live your life A Dependant." D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A just to break this routine. D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A Just to be, as free as me. Bm

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G In the trauma ward? Bm Well I knew I would surley gonna G End up dead Bm G If I didn't embrace coffee, god, A D And cigarettes. D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A just to break this routine. D Coffee, god, and cigarettes G D are all that you need, G D all that you need, A Just to be, as free as me. D G D G D A DDD

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Hod Did I Get Out Alive? G D Em D C D

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C C/b D Down where the dullards rule; C G D How to keep a match lit in this hole? C C/b Am Up where the idiots lead; Em Scattering seeds. D C Well, we all had to stand G For the Pledge. D C When bones were thrown, G We all fetched. D C G But still, we were burning inside. D C G How did I get out A-live? D Em D G C C/b D And we read here we are free; Sang C G D "this land was made for you and me." C C/b Am Watched as the president swore; Em Called for war. D C We all tied yellow ribbons G D C 'round necks. And we all had to stand G For the Pledge. D C G So smothered by national pride.

D Em D G D Em D Em D G C D G C C/b D Back when the idiots ruled, C I was a time bomb G D Brought into school. C C/b It was there that we learned Am Em Up from down; upside-down. D C It was there that we stood G D for the pledge. Where the living C G Were raised by the dead. D C Led to slaughter, kept inside G D C The lines. So how did I get out...

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D C G By some rebel angel was I blessed? D C G Or by some devil's minion led? D C One by one, we all choked G On the lies. D C G How did I get out alive? G D Em D Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down C To save you |C |D

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A Liquor Never Brewed Am There was a knockin’ at my door Dm Am It’s the dreaded landlord Dm Am He wants his rent and wants it now, Em Am He is careless how F C He left us in a vacant daze, Dm Em Dm Asking how we got here. Am Em And we retired to slumber but, Bm Am the glasses never were rinsed. Am There was a tappin’ on my back Dm Am It’s the dreaded foreman Dm Am I think I see a smile through his Em Am Teeth and his cigar F C He put my hands to working, Dm Em Dm said they'd otherwise do nothin’ Am Em And I made a thousand things today, Bm Am I’m sure I’ll never use. Am There was a ringin’ on my phone Dm Am I picked it up to answer, Dm Am they said they were my comrade.

Em Am But they couldn’t say my name F C I asked them about the sun and moon Dm Em Dm And what their thoughts on time were Am Em They hung it up in madness Bm Am And went on to punch the clock Dm And somewhere there’s a sound Am Of someone singing Em Am I got an invitation once to liberty F They had a mischief brew Am but no goblets were used Bm Besting rum or porter Bm C Bm ’Tis a liquor never brewed. Never brewed... Am Am Dm Am Dm Am Em Am La La La... Am There was a knockin’ at my door Dm Am It’s the dreaded policeman Dm Am He had a ticket to enter signed by Em Am fools of stamped with laws F C And he questioned me on politics Dm Em Dm And scored my generation Am Em For not respecting elders

Bm Am And the lands authority Am When the landlord came to knock, Dm Am I said “Come back tomorrow Dm Am There’s more life I’ll be living C Than just slaving for your wage F C And to the troop and foreman. F C Bm Make yourself the things I don’t use. Am Em For I’m off into the forest Bm Am For a liquor never brewed!” Dm So I'm following the sound Am Of someone singing Em Am I got an invitation once to liberty F They had a mischief brew Am But no goblets were used Bm Besting rum or porter Bm C Bm ’Tis a liquor never brewed. Never brewed... Am Am Dm Am Dm Am Em Am La La La...

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Boycott Me

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Marching through the square C#m Stencil flags of insurrection, B Dancin' through the air E Read the rants of a Thomas Paine A E Of modern day A E I have felt a spirit, B E That has not yet gone away

and those who rode the rails C#m Then lay down on the roads we paved B eat the crumbs we used for trails E And discredit all the rogues, A E liberty's cracked within the bells A E The demon's in your heavens B E and the angels in your hells

E Boycott me and boycott this B E And mute your children's mouths A When they sing along E To this very song A B Spread word all around

E Boycott me and boycott this B E and mute your children's mouths A When they sing along E to this very song A B Spread word all around

are the heroes of tomorrow C#m They'll be a holiday, B times of regret and sorrow E and when they're pressed on stamps A E we'll hope they're not forgotten A E So let's go down in history, B E blacklisted and boycotten E Boycott me and boycott this B E and mute your children's mouths A When they sing along E to this very song A B Spread word all around

A E Hey, FOP, boycott me B C#m for I am standing up A E I'd rather taste a rebel's B than drink blood from your A E I'd rather taste a rebel's B than drink blood from your

A E Hey, FOP, boycott me B C#m for I am standing up A E I'd rather taste a rebel's glory B E than drink blood from your cup' A E I'd rather taste a rebel's glory B C#m E than drink blood from your cup

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Farewell Good Fellows F#m Farewell, good fellows, A your ways are not for me D A Farewell, good fellows, D E your ways are not for me F#m Rest upon your laurels, A Glad you found your peace, but D A Farewell, good fellows, D E your ways are not for me F#m Rapping at the chapel door A E Sweeping up an enemy’s floor F#m Do not touch or make a sound A E Keep your eyes upon the ground D A Read your countless volumes D A Shunned your many sins D A But I cannot find salvation D E In the rattlin’ of your tins D A I wish good to your children D A And their own children, too D A But your armor will not fit me D E Although, fine, it’s suiting you

F#m Farewell, good fellows, A your ways are not for me D A Farewell, good fellows, D E your ways are not for me F#m Rest upon your laurels, A Glad you found your peace, but D A Farewell, good fellows, D E your ways are not for me F#m A flag is waved, a bomb is thrown A E So many names and dates to know F#m Books upon the books are stacked A E To get something so simple back D A We’re talkin’ revolution D A But spirals not the spins D A Where you fall down, dizzy D E And forget where to begin D A I wish good to your children D A And their own children, too D A But your armor will not fit me D E Although, fine, it’s suiting you F#m A D A D E Suiting you...

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F#m E Turn your blessings into weapons D A And hold them before your chest D A To you and all your comrades D E I only wish the best F#m E We may not meet again D A For we are treading separate trails D A But I’ll cast off and think of you D E On seas or roads or rails F#m E From chapels to the armies D A Magician to the knave D A You either blaze your own trail D E Or you’re diggin’ yer own grave D A I wish good to your children D A And their own children, too D A But your armor will not fit me D E Although, fine, it’s suiting you A

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Gratitude and Thanks G C I asked a student of higher schooling G D He said he didn’t care G C When I asked about the sixties G D They simply said long hair G C Saw a child getting programmed G D Getting programmed when she wakes G C And I heard a raving elder G D Cursing 20 years too late Em Am C Oh how the bastards screwed me D G C D Son, life’s too short to wait Am And then the students Bm C Of higher schooling D G C D Hid more pills inside his plate G C D So I’d like to send gratitude And thanks G C To those who had the courage D To defy the mighty ranks C Send it to the students G Who waved the banners D Who held flowers up to the tanks C And to the ones who are G Still fighting

D Yes all my gratitude G C G D G C G D And all my thanks G C So as you sit baked and hammered G D So grateful to be dead G C Saying freedom’s here to chill out G D So sit and rest your head G Think of those who fought C For your right G D The path you walk, they paved G C And those who fought for their right G D To carry until today G C When it was they who fed the hungry, G D Stormed the pentagon for peace G C While the army rounded strangers up G D made them instant police G C They who made a union, G dodged the draft, D and filled the jails G C And spread a message of unity G D Across the nation’s rails Em And said we’re destroying Am C The house that Man have built D G C D Kicking the doors and pulling nails

Am Bm C And you have the nerve to tell me D G C D That everyone has failed G No, you should send C D Your gratitude and thanks G C To those who had the courage D To defy the mighty ranks C Send it to the students G Who waved the banners D Who held flowers up to the tanks C And to the ones who are G Still fighting D Yes all my gratitude Am D Am D C D C D x2 And all my thanks C I'd like to send out a D Head, help, heart, and hand G C To those who had the courage D To reach and rise and stand C Send it to the lovers G And the fighters D To those who stood up and still stand C Those who unchained their wrist G And clenched their fist D G Both here and in faraway lands

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Love and Rage G C Love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," sang as they D Em Swayed in the pew, sang with G C Love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," D G As they ed up to pray. C D I think of the power of song ... G C and the history it brings along, Em Am And I can almost see sights C D of some hot, Southern nights, Am C Through blood, rain, tears and shine, D G they'd unite and fight, G C With love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," sang as they D Em Swayed in the pew, sang with G C Love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," D G As they ed up to pray.

C D I'm hearing some old singer sing ... G C A song that our tale-tellers bring. Em Am It has been sung, through C D Cracked jaws, swollen tongues, Am C In the land of the free, D G Where they say freedom rings, G C With love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," sang as they D Em Swayed in the pew, sang with G C Love, love and rage. G "Soon be the day," D G As they ed up to pray. Am Am

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C D So now that I see where I am ... G I see race still determines C The blessed from the damned, Em Am And the greatest of all C D Am Historical shams is believing C D G D You cannot do something you can.

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Rambler's Ghost Em Am Em Am Em Am B>Em x2 Em She's off to anywhere; B Em Every town grows stale soon enough C G So it's fields to the east Am Em And hills to the west B Under crescent moons and grassy beds, Em She lays her head to rest

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Em And how I'm sorry B Em That my ancestors threw you in jail C G But now I can see Am Em Your ramblings were poetry B Will you sell me the rights Em If I put up the bail?

Em B Noble hobo, corporate cutthroat Em Got the wisdom of the tramp C G Brother, can't spare no crumbs, Am Em Don't you trip o'er the bums B As you step out of a cab Em On the way to see a gypsy band

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C G And we'll sing ain't that the life, C G We've got it made Am Em Our heads in the sand, B Em Our guitars in the shade C G C G Rambling Beauty, sing sweet to me B Yeah, you're on my mind, Just like on TV Yeah, you're on my mind, Em Come from the TV

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C G And we sing ain't that the life, C G She's got it made Am Em Her head in the sand, B Em Her guitar in the shade C G C G Rambling Beauty, she sang to me B Was she in my mind, or on the TV? Yeah she's on my mind,

Em Rambling Beauty, B Em Let me be your mate for a while C G Be a shoulder for your head, Am Em Carry a bag & roll a bed B Another day in this place, Em And I swear I'll end up dead

Em Am Em Am Em She's been in a hundred movies B Em And in six billion dreams C G Taking out her wood and wire, Am Em Singin' romance 'round the fire B Givin' tastes of truth Em To those of us employed as liars

Em Am Em Am Em Railroad boxcar, B Em Blast'n'burns on down the line C G And her feet are a-swingin' Am Em And the song she's a-singin' B Em Tells of greener fields & freer times

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Thanks Bastards G Em C G Thank you Mr. officer great For all the things you said to me Em For all the good C That you have ever done G Without you, what would I be? You're the gas upon my flames, Em My love and rage C All rolled up into one. G Am For every time your guns goes off Em C A new rebel is born G Am So when there's 41 bullets Em C It's 41 thousand thorns, G Am In your side We'll take a ride Em C Down to precinct twenty-nine Am And we'll sing and dance Em And break the code of silence G G Em C Ladadadadadadadadadadadadaaa x2 G Thank you governor, Thank you governor Em C To the mayor and the commissioner G Your monster is alive now,

Em Crashing through your opera house, C And tearing out the seats

C Of our state G I've seen the bones they try to hide

G Am For all the times you sign your name Em C Someone out there dies G Am You found a wallet, not a gun Em C And a mother wipes her tears G Am From her eyes, we despise, Em C Your hollow truths and honest lies Am Now you can sing the monster Em Into slumber

Cutthroat livings other side Em C The flood of US bathwater displaced G Am The funeral march of all the victims Em C Of your power war G Am Rob the rights, and steal the night Em C And rebels shall be born G Am Forever more, you're the storm, Em C We shall play after it pours Am And joy is sure to come Em After your silence

C Thanks bastards! G You made me what I am D Thanks bastards! Em I took the goods and ran C Thanks bastards! G You made me what I am D Thanks bastards! Em I took the goods and ran G G Em C I took the goods and ran G Homeland security vs. civil liberty Em I'm studying in the shadows

C Thanks bastards! G You made me what I am D Thanks bastards! Em I took the goods and ran C Thanks bastards! G You made me what I am D Thanks bastards! Em I took the goods and ran G I took the goods and ran

She's taking to the streets

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Devil of a Time Am Bm Cm Bm Am Bm Cm Bm Am Cm Bm Bbm F E Am E Am Didn't we have a devil of a time? Am F E Didn't we have a devil of a time? Am A stranger stumbled into town Dm Talkin’ turnin' tables 'round F E Am Didn't we have a devil of a time? Am We shot and slammed E Am The glasses upside down Am F E Shot and slammed the glasses upside down Am I was the last one to take a mask Dm But the first one to strike a match F Shot and slammed E Am The glasses upside down Am E Didn’t I paint a face Am On the sleeping guard? Am F Didn’t I paint a face E on the sleeping guard? Am Well convention sleeps when the sun goes down Dm so copper try and catch me now F E Didn’t I paint a face Am on the sleeping guard? Am E well the silent sirens wait

Am in the allyways Am F E the silent sirens wait in the alleyways Am till the stone of order's cracked in two Dm We can spin the red and blue F E silent sirens wait in the allyAm Bm Cm Bm ways the allyAm Bm Cm Bm ways the allyAm Cm Bm Bbm F E ways E Am Bm Cm Bm for the Moon is underwater Am Bm Cm Bm Am Cm Bm Bbm of the carnival Can-na-ls F Am got to rattle fragile boarders B7 E7 E for whats a city with no underground Am E ya ya-ya ya-ya ya-ya-ya E Am ya ya-ya ya-ya ya-ha Am Dm F ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya E no underground Am

E Am to wander through a Venetian maze Am when I never marched F E the streets of New Orleans Am but the Devil's brew I drank tonight Dm tomorrow have me exorcised F E Am and tighten up my necktie once again Am

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E7 hangover and a ragged suite Am at curbside I crept from sleep Dm some stranger left behind his reeds F E Am crown me the merry Lord of Misrule E Hey Hey for the Moon is underAm Bm Cm Bm water Am(2) Bm Cm Bm of the carnival Am(2) Cm Bm Bbm Can----na--ls F Am got to rattle fragile boarders B7 E7 E for whats a city with no underground Am E ya ya-ya ya-ya ya-ya-ya E Am ya ya-ya ya-ya ya-ha Am Dm F ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya E no underground Am E Am didn't we have a devil of a time Am F E didn't we have a devil of a time Am They say who's this drunkard stumblin' down Dm in rags with Palm ash on his brow F E singin', didn't we have a devil of a Am Bm Cm Bm time of a Am Bm Cm Bm time of a Am Cm Bm Bbm F E Am time

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Save a City... G Am Beware the tide's a'risin, C D in the city of brotherly love G Am the blood red lights were a'flashin, C D as the cellars rose up in a flood Em and as they dragged you D Am C from the depths of mud, Em C D they beat you while you were down. D then they tossed you in jail C for a hundred years, C D G save a city burn it down G Am and that's what they said C D G as they tore your homes to the ground G And when I was seven Am in suburban heaven, C D The teachers and elders and police... G They'd cover my ears Am so I wouldn't hear C The gunshots soar through D those city streets. Em D And if anyone questioned Am C the liberty bomb,

Em C D Or why the timers were even wound, D A scolding they'd earn, C and so we soon learned: C D G To save a city, you burn it down. G Am And that's what they said C As they burned their D G Homes to the ground. G Em G Em G C Am D G Em G Em G Em C Am D G Em G Em so many people, and so many lives G C so many keep silent Am D so they can survive G Em respect slaughtering cops G Em and the politicians they laud G or the gavels shall Em C crush down your home Am D and you'll be expected to applaud... G Am So the crime was a trip to the market C D The sentence, a lifetime of hurt, G As she saw through tears, Am Her home of thirty of years C D Reduced to rubble and dirt. Em And she cursed those

D Am who would approach her C Em C D And hold papers up to her face, D and say, "You should feel blessed C you live in the U.S. C D G and not some other hellish place" G Am So take heed if you live in the city C In a part where D the tourists won't tread. G Am And beware if you maintain resistance C D And choose not to be one other led. Em D Am And if you're out in suburban gardens C Em Don't let them plant lies C D deep in your head, D 'Cause you too could come home C to no home C D G Or to find your family dead. G 'Cause they've got Am this dream of a city C D Where no community unity can be found G So stand up and save Am your neighborhood C D G Fuck the city, burn it down Am C D G Fuck the city, burn it down

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Weapons Em C G D Am C G D Am Em G there’s a hole in the wall, D Am there’s a light down the hall C G there’s a pest in the system, D Am so we’ll surely see it stall Em G there’s a knife in my pouch, D Am and a hammer in my belt C G there’s a pot on the fire, C D so the joy’s yet to be felt Em G there’s a home, there’s a well, D there’s a ringing of the bell C G so tonight we’ll feast on treasures C D that they could never sell Em G spirits sing, spirits fly, D Am through the window, see the sky C G where the moon calls out for slumber, C D but mischief, joy and might Em D C so our weapons seem not much to show Em but they don’t kill, D G they only help us grow C G D Am C G D Am C no they won’t kill

G D we’ve got our weapons, Am C we brew a mighty ale G D the dead were dancing on their graves Am D as drums and fiddles wail G D we build our weapons, Am C we bring them to the stones Em G the rituals were beyond words Am D G D of the wedding of earth and soul G D Em Em G there’s a knock at the door, D Am well I wonder who it’s for C G you gotcha walking stick ready, C D there still are different shores Em G with a mind in our heads, D Am and a heart in our chests C G with the world at our boot-tips C D our hands hold the rest Em I've seen the towers D C they build on and up Em D G I've got the mirth already in my cup Em I've felt the winds D C they try to bottle up and sell Em I've walked an earth

D G that they could never kill no we won’t kill C G D Am D C Am D Em G there’s a hood around my shoulders, D Am and a banjo in my hands C G as the notes rise like smoke rings, C D so with these shall we dance Em this is the flicker G through the window, D Am food is warm in here, it beckons C G while outside bites the winter air, C D inside you’ll find our weapons... G D we’ve got our weapons, Am C we brew a mighty ale G D the dead were dancing on their graves Am D as drums and fiddles wail G D we build our weapons, Am C we bring them to the stones Em G the rituals were beyond words Am D G D of the wedding of earth and soul

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

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G In the 5 minutes when C I was dead to the world G In a place far away D from my friends and my home G I saw you with a smile C on your radiant face G Amidst all of the cans D G and the glass and the chrome G C D G D G G In those 5 minutes C my signal was jammed G The frequencies that D I received were so pure G That I almost believed C that the sight of the hole G In your skull was a thing D G that my heart could endure

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California Song C I know you see mars F G in the sky tonight C and I know you can see venus rising F G and veering off to the right. C can you see that young star ahead? F G it's the one that designed my undoing C I know that in california F G the waves break on the beach. C and I know that the foam F on the breaking waves G is as white as household bleach. C but if you could see

F G I love you madly. C F you really got a hold on me. C F you really got a hold on me.

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Letter From Belgium

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A When we walk out in the sunlight G we tell everyone we know D it hurts our eyes

A Martin calls to say he's sending G old electrical equipment D That's good we can always use A some more electrical equipment

When the real reason we don't A like it is that it makes us

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A In the cold clear light of day G down here, everyone's a monster D That's cool with all of us A We've been past the point of help

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since early April A G D A D A Susan and her notebook D A Freehand drawings of Lon Chaney D A Blueprints for geodesic domes D E Recipes for cake A Yeah we're all here G Chewing our tongues off D A Waiting for the fever to break

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A And Martin's found an old trunk G full of stage makeup in the basement D And he's sending it along A We can always use more makeup A G D A Yeah more creams and powders D A And Carrie's got the feeling D A That the people next door D A Will close in like a wolf pack D E Should we make one small mistake A Yeah we're all here G Chewing our tongues off D A Waiting for the fever to break

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Palmcorder Yajna A D A D (2x) A E Holt Boulevard Bm D Between Gary and White A Hooked up with some friends E at the Travelodge D E Set ourselves up for the night A E Carpenter ants in the dresser Bm D Flies in the screen A It will be too late E by the time we learn D E What these cryptic symbols mean A D And I dreamt of a house A Haunted by all you tweakers D with your hands out A And the headstones D climbed up the hills A And the headstones D climbed up the hills A E Send somebody out for soda Bm D Comb through the carpet for clues A E Reflective tape on our sweatpants

D E Big holes in our shoes A E Bm Every couple minutes someone says D he can't stand it any more A E Laugh lines on our faces D E Scale maps of the ocean floor

A And the headstones D climbed up the hills A D A D

A D And I dreamt of a camera A Pointing out from inside D the television A D And the aperture yawning and blinking A And the headstones D climbed up the hills C#m D A If anybody comes to see me C#m D Tell 'em they just missed me A by a minute C#m D A If anybody comes in to our room while we're asleep A E I hope they incinerate D E everybody in it A D And I dreamt of a factory A D Where they manufactured what I needed A D Using shiny new machines

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Attention All Pickpockets

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C G black pumps and a medium length Am black skirt, eating a path F through the dark damp Earth C G I hope they've got Am F plenty of money where you're going

C G In comes you, Am F not the same person I knew C G Looking roughly the same Am but something hungry F getting restless in your brain C(x3201x) C(x3301x) x2 C G Am there I go, not the same person F that you used to know C G peeking through Am F the fisheye lens at you

C G and the cornet blows Am F where the oleander grows C G Am and us two, not the same people F that our old friends knew C(x3201x) C(x3301x) x4

C G and the cornet blows Am F where the oleander grows C G Am and us two, not the same people F that our old friends knew C(x3201x) C(x3301x) x4 C G and so down the street, Am F you head, in the high summer heat C G white long sleeved Oxford Am F pushed up to just before your elbows

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G I am frozen with joy

Going to Georgia D Asus4 G D Asus4 G D The most remarkable thing about Asus4 coming home to you, is the feeling G of being in motion again ,

right where I stand. A The world throws it's light

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A D The world shines as I cross G the Macon county line D A D Going to Georgia. D Asus4 The most remarkable thing about you, standing in the doorway G is that it's you and that you're standing in the doorway D and you smile as you ease Asus4 the gun from my hand,

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Old College Try A C#m D E D A F#m D E A C#m From the housetops to the gutters D E D From the ocean to the shore A The warning signs have all F#m been bright and garish D E Far too great in number to ignore A C#m From the cities to the swamplands D E D From the highways to the hills A Our love has never had F#m A leg to stand on D From the aspirins E to the cross-tops to the Elevils D E But I will walk A D down to the end with you A If you will come E A all the way down with me A C#m From the entrance to the exit D Is longer than it looks E D from where we stand

A I want to say I'm sorry F#m for stuff I haven't done yet D Things will shortly get E completely out of hand A I can feel it in the C#m rotten air tonight D In the tips of my fingers E In the skin on my face A In the weak last gasp F#m of the evening's dying light D In the way those eyes I've always loved E illuminate this place D E Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell A Like the searchlights D in the parking lots of hell A E A D I will walk down to the end with you A If you will come E A all the way down with me A A D A

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You or Your Memory E I checked into a bargain priced room C#m on la sienaga, F#m gazed out through the curtains of the A E parking lot. walked down to the corner store just C#m before nightfall in my bare feet. F#m A E black tarry asphalt, soft and hot. A and when I came back E I spread out my supplies. A on the counter by the sink, B I looked myself right in the eyes E A st. joseph's baby aspirin, B bartles and james, E A B E and you or your memory.

F#m A as clear as day, lord if I make it E through tonight A E then I will mend my ways A and walk the straight path B to the end of my days. E A st. joseph's baby aspirin, B bartles and james, E and you or your A memory. B E A B E A B E A B E A B E

E I ducked behind the drapes when I saw C#m the moon begin to rise, F#m gathered in my loose ends, A E A E switched off the light. and down there in the dark I can see C#m the real truth about me.

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Color in Your Cheeks

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C# G# A She came in on the redeye to B dallas-fort worth. E G# A B All the way from sunny taipei. C# G# A B skin the color of a walnut shell, E G# and a baseball cap holding A B down her black hair. A B and she came here after midnight. E the hot weather made her feel right at home. E A come on in, we haven't slept for weeks. E drink some of this. A B it'll put color in your cheeks.

E and we let the silence, that's our trademark A make its presence felt, E A come on in, we haven't slept for weeks E drink some of this. A B it'll put color in your cheeks.

C# G# A he drove from in from mexicali, B E no worse for wear. G# A B money to burn, time to kill. C# G# A B but five minutes looking in his eyes E and we all knew he G# A B was broken pretty bad, so we gave him A what we had. we cleared a space for him

E drink some of this. A B It'll put color in your cheeks.

C# G# A B E B C# G# A they came in by the dozens, B E walking or crawling. G# some were bright-eyed. A B some were dead on their feet. C# G# A and they came from zimbabwe, B E or from soviet, georgia. G# A east saint louis, or from paris, B A or they lived across the street. but they came, and when they'd B finally made it here, E it was the least that we could do A to make our welcome clear. E A come on in, we haven't slept for weeks

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Song for Dennis Brown G On the day that C Dennis Brown’s lung collapsed D Spring rain was misting down on G Kingston. G And down at the harbor C D Local cops were intercepting an G inbound shipment. C G And for a while there it was chaos C As they handcuffed and then ruffed up D some sailors. G C On the day my lung collapses, D G it’s not gonna be much different.

G On the day my habits catch up with me, C D G I’ll be down among the jumpers. G And when the birds C Come home in spring D G We will fill them full of buckshot. G C And jets of contaminated blood D G Will cloud the rivers and the lakes. C G It took all the coke in town C D To bring down Dennis Brown. G C On the day my lung collapses, D G We’ll see just how much it takes.

G On the day that Dennis Brown’s habits C caught up with him D G School children sang in choirs. And out behind the Chinese restaurants C D G Guys were jumping into dumpsters. C G And the stench was overbearing C But they were past the point of D caring.

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D There's bound to be a ghost G A at the back of your closet, G A D no matter where you live. D There'll always be a few things, Em7 maybe several things, G That you're gonna find really A D difficult to forgive.

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D There's gonna come a day when G A you feel better, G A you'll rise up free and easy D on that day. D You'll float from branch to branch, Em7 lighter than the air, G just when that day is coming, A who can say, who can say.

D G Our mother has been absent ever D G since we founded Rome, D A But there's gonna be a party D when the wolf comes home. D

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D G Our mother has been absent ever D G since we founded Rome, D A But there's gonna be a party D when the wolf comes home. G A D G A D G A D Oh!

D We're gonna commandeer G A the local airwaves, G A to tell the neighbours what's been D going on. D and they will shake their heads, Em7 and wag their bony fingers, G in all the wrong directions A and by daybreak we'll be gone. D

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D G I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim A G A scope out every angle D of unfair advantage D I'm gonna bribe the officials, Em7 I'm gonna kill all the judges, G it's gonna take you people years to A recover from all of the damage,

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E You'd stay the hell out of my way. D I am drowning. E There is no sign of land. A You are coming down with me, D hand in unlovable hand.

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Best Ever Death Metal Band From Denton D

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D The best ever death metal band Out of Denton G Were a couple of guys, who'd been A Friends since grade school. D One was named Cyrus, And the other was Jeff. G And they practiced twice a week A In jeff's bedroom. D The best ever death metal band Out of Denton G A Never settled on a name. D But the top three contenders, After weeks of debate, G Were satan's fingers, and A D The Killers and the hospital bombers. |D

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D Jeff and Cyrus believed In their hearts they were headed G For stage lights and leer jets, A And fortune and fame. D So in script that made

Prominent use of a pentagram, G They stenciled their drumheads A And guitars with their names. G This was how Cyrus A Got sent to the school D Where they told him G He'd never be famous. G And this was why Jeff, A In the letters he'd write D To his friend, G Helped develop a plan to get even. D When you punish a person For dreaming his dream, G Don't expect him to thank A Or forgive you. D The best ever death metal band Out of Denton G Will in time both outpace A And outlive you. D Hail satan! G A Hail satan tonight! D Hail satan! G A Hail hail!

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Wild Sage G I leave the house as soon A7 As it gets light outside C G Like a prisoner breaking out of jail G A7 And I steal down to business 15-501 C G Like I had a bounty hunter on my tail D And somebody stops to pick me up C But he drops me off Just down the block G Em And along the highway C G Where the empty spirits breed D G Wild sage growing in the weeds G Walk down the soft shoulder A7 And I count my steps C Headed vaguely eastward, G Sun in my eyes G And I lose my footing A7 And I skin my hands breaking my fall C And I laugh to myself G And look up at the skies

D And then I think I hear angels In my ears C Like marbles being thrown Against a mirror G Em And along the highway C G Where unlucky stray dogs bleed D G Wild sage growing in the weeds

G And until the blood's dried D And when somebody asks if I'm ok C I don't know what to say G Em And along the highway C G From cast off innumerable seeds D G Wild sage growing in the weeds F F

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F C And somedays G F C I don't miss my family G F And somedays I do C G Somedays I think I'd feel better Em If I tried harder C D Most days I know it's not true G I lay down right where A7 I felt cold grass in my face C And I hear the traffic G Like the rhythm of the tides G And I stare at the scrape A7 On the heel of my hand C Til it doesn't sting so much

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Woke Up New C# F# On the morning when I woke up C# F# Without you for the first time C# G# I felt free and I felt lonely C# And I felt scared C# F# And I began to talk to myself A#m F# Almost immediately C# G# Not being used to being F# G# The only person there C# F# The first time I made coffee C# F# For just myself I made too much of it C# But I drank it all G# Just cause you hate it F# C# When I let things go to waste C# F# And I wandered through the house A#m F# Like a little boy lost at the mall C# G# And an astronaut could have seen F# G# The hunger in my eyes from space

C# G# And I sang, oh, what do I do? F# C# What do I do? What do I do? G# C# What do I do without you? C# F# On the morning I when I woke up C# F# Without you for the first time C# G# I was cold, so I put on a sweater F# C# And I turned up the heat

C# G# And I sang, oh, what do I do? F# C# What do I do? What do I do? G# C# What do I do without you? C# F# C# F# C# G# C#

C# F# And the walls began to close in A#m F# And I felt so sad and frightened C# I practically ran from G# F# C# The living room out into the street C# F# And the wind began to blow C# F# And all the trees began to bend C# G# And the world in its cold way F# C# Started coming alive C# F# And I stood there like a businessman A#m F# Waiting for a train C# G# And I got ready for the future C# To arrive

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The Day the Aliens Came A D E A D E I will wake up at 6am again A D And I will find my way E To the front door A Like a soldier crawling through D E The smoking carnage D A Smoldering bodies at my feet D I’d love to stick around E But I’ve got someone to meet A D E And I will put my best foot forward A And I’ll thank god D E I made it out of there A D E A On the day when my new friends come D E A D I will present myself in my nice E A D E White tuxedo jacket A D And I will look at the day E A Through my dark sunglasses D E And take in the scene D The house behind me

A And the people in it D Will all go up like steam E In just a minute A There’s gonna be a redefining D E Of the borders A D E And I will receive my orders A D E A On the day when my new friends come

D When you look up at me E And wave good-bye A D E A On the day when my new friends come

D E F#m A The rooftops and the sidewalks F#m A Will all melt like plastic F#m A And oh friends, oh friends! Dear friends, D E I’m gonna look fantastic A There won’t be any reason D E Left to cry A Because there won’t be any people D E Left to cry for A D E My memory’s gonna vaporize itself A And my Italian shoes, D E Well, they will be to die for D A I believe I can fly

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Broom People E C#m '36 hudson in the garage, A All sorts of junk E In the unattached spare room, E C#m Dishes in the kitchen sink, A B Used straw for the old broom, A E Friends who don't have a clue, A E Well meaning teachers, A C#m A But down in your arms, in your arms, B E I am a wild creature. A E A E A E A E E C#m Floor two foot high with newspapers, A E Carpet thick with pet hair, E C#m Half eaten gallons of ice cream In the freezer, A B Fresh fuel for the sodium flare, A I write down good reasons E To freeze to death A E In my spiral-ring notebook A C#m A But in the long tresses of your hair,

B E I am a babbling brook. A E A E A E A

The Monkey Song C Cool air falls through G The venetian blinds and Am The planets in the heavens F Are perfectly aligned C I take in my surroundings G I memorize them all Am The scuff marks on the stone floor, F The powder burns on the eastern wall C G There's a monkey in the basement Am F How did the monkey get there? C G There's a monkey in the basement Am F Where did the monkey come from? C Where did the monkey come from? G Where did the monkey come from?

C G The animal noises you used to make Am F The andalusian coral snake C All hail when standing G Beside this room Am And the heavy hot rains F And the sonic boom C G There's a monkey in the basement Am F Where did the monkey come from? C G There's a monkey in the basement Am F How did the monkey get there? C How did the monkey get there? G How did the monkey get there? C

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A My broken house behind me E And good things ahead, D A girl named Cathy A Wants a little of my time. E Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking D A ahhh listen to the engine whine. A I am going to make it E D A Through this year if it kills me. A I am going to make it E D A Through this year if it kills me.

A I played video games E In a drunken haze D A I was seventeen years young A Hurt my knuckles E Punching the machines D The taste of scotch rich A On my tongue.

A And then Cathy showed up E And we hung out. D Trading swigs from the bottle A All bitter and clean A E Locking eyes, holding hands, D A Twin high maintenance machines.

F#m A I drove home in the california dusk. F#m I could feel the alcohol A Inside of me hum. F#m Picture the look A On my stepfather's face, D E Ready for the bad things to come. A I downshifted as E I pulled into the driveway. D The motor screaming out A Stuck in second gear. A The scene ends badly E As you might imagine, D A In a cavalcade of anger and fear. A C#m There will be feasting and dancing D E In Jerusalem next year.

A I am going to make it E D A Through this year if it kills me. A I am going to make it E D A Through this year if it kills me.

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Dance Music G Em G Em G Em C D G C Alright I'm on johnson avenue D G In san luis obispo G C D G And I'm five years old or six maybe. G And indications that there's C D G Something wrong with our new house, C D Trip down the wire twice daily. G C I'm in the living room D G Watching the watergate hearings, G C While my stepfather yells D G At my mother G C Launches a glass across the room D G Straight at her head. C D And I dash upstairs to take cover, C Lean in close to my little G Record player on the floor, C D So this is what the volume knob's for G C D G I listen to dance music. G C D G Dance music.

G C D G Ok so look I'm seventeen years old, G C And you're the last best thing D G I've got going, G C But then the special super sicknesss D G Starts to eat through you, C D What am I supposed to do? No way of knowing. G C So I follow you down D G Your twisting alleyways, G C D G Find a few cul de sacs of my own. G There's only one place C D G This road ever ends up, C D And I don't want to die alone. C Let me down,let me down, G Let me down gently. C D when the police come to get me G C D G I’m listening to dance music. G C D G Dance music. Em G Em G Em G C D G C D G

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B Eb We stank of hair dye and ammonia. E B We sealed ourselves away from view. B Eb You were looking at the void And seldom blinking E B The best that I could do E F# Was to train my eyes on you. E B We scaled the hidden hills Beneath the surface, E Scraped our fingers B Bloody on the stones. E B And built our little house Eb That we could live in E B Out of Dinu Lapatti's bones.

E B To keep winter time at bay E F# But december showed up anyway. E There was no money B It was money that you wanted. E I went downtown, B Sold off most of what I owned. E And we raised a tower B Eb To broadcast all our dark dreams E B From Dinu Lapatti's bones. B

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Love Love Love E A E A E King Saul fell on his sword A When it all went wrong, E And Joseph's brothers sold him B Down the river for a song, E And Sonny Liston rubbed A Some tiger balm into his glove. F# Some things you do for money A B E And some you do for love, love, love. A E A E Raskolnikov felt sick A But he couldn't say why E When he saw his face reflected B In his victim's twinkling eye. E Some things you'll do for money A And some you'll do for fun, F# But the things you do for love A Are going to come back to you B E One by one

A Love, love is going to lead you E By the hand A E Into a white and soundless place. A Now we see things C#m E As in a mirror dimly. A Then we shall see each other B Face to face. E And way out in Seattle A Young Kurt Cobain E Snuck out to the greenhouse, B Put a bullet in his brain. E Snakes in the grass beneath our feet, A Rain in the clouds above, F# Some moments last forever, A But some flare up with B E Love, love, love. A E A E A E A

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Fall of the Star High School Running Back D A G A D A G A D A G A D D D D

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D A G G Sophomore year, D A You rushed for an average G A D Of eight and a third yards per carry. A

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G A All eyes were on you. D A G G Junior year, D A You blew your knee out G A At an out of town game. G Nowhere to go to but A Down, down, down. D Nothing but the ground left G For you to fall to. D A G A D A G A D A G A D D D

D And you'd figured out A G G A way to make real money D A Givin' ends to your friends, G A And it felt stupendous. G A Chrome spokes on your Japanese bike, Bb A But selling acid was a bad idea, D And selling it to a cop G Was a worse one. D A And the new law said that seventeen D Year olds could do federal time. G You were the first one, D G So I sing this song for you, D G William Stanaforth Donahue, D Your grandfather rode the boat A Over from Ireland, D G But you made a bad decision or two. D A G A D A G A (x2) D Yeah.

D A G G By July, D A You'd made a whole bunch G A Of brand new friends, G A People you used to look down on.

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Jenny D Bm G A D Bm You roared into the driveway G A Of our southwestern ranch-style house D Bm On a new kawasaki, G A All yellow and black D Bm Fresh out of the showroom. G A Our house faced west, D Bm So the big orange sun G A Positioned at your back, G A Lit up your magnificent silhouette. D How much better? G how much better can my life get? G 900 cubic centimeters A Of raw whining power. D No outstanding warrants G For my arrest. D A Whoa-whoa. Whoa whoa. D The pirate's life for me.

D Bm I hopped on back of the bike, G A Wrapped my arms around you. D Bm G A And I sank my face into your hair. D Bm And then I inhaled G A As deeply as I possibly could. D Bm You were as sweet and delicious G A As the warm desert air. G And you pointed your headlamp A Toward the horizon, D We were the one thing in the galaxy G God didn't have his eyes on. G A 900 cc's of raw whining power, D No outstanding warrants G For my arrest. D Hi diddle dee dee. A God damn! D The pirate's life for me! Dsus4 D G Aadd2-A-Asus4 D

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Source Decay E A E A E Once a week I make the drive F# Two hours east to check the A E Austin post office box. E I take the detour F# Through our old neighborhood, A See all the Chevy Impalas B In their front yards up on blocks, A And I park in an alley B And I read through the postcards E A That you continue to send: F# Where as indirectly as you can A You ask what I . E I like these torture devices B From my old best friend. C# Well I'll tell you what I know F# Like I swore I always would -A I don't think it's gonna B Do you any good:

E A E I the train headed south A B A E Out of Bangkok down toward the water. A E A E E I always get a late start, F# When the sun's going down A And the traffic's thinning out E And the glare is hard to take. I wish the West Texas Highway F# Was a Möbius strip -A I could ride it out forever. B When I feel my heart break, A I almost swear I hear it happen, B It's that clear and that hard. E I come in off the highway A And I park in my front yard. C# I fall out of the car F# Like a hostage from a plane, A Think of you a while and B Start wishing it would rain. E A E I the train headed south A B A E Out of Bangkok down toward the water.

A E A E E I come into the house, F# Put on a pot of coffee, A E Walk the floors a little while. E I set the postcard on a table F# With all the others like it, A B Start sorting through the pile. A I check the pictures And the postmarks B And the captions and the stamps E A For signs of any pattern at all. F# When I come up empty-handed, A The feeling almost overwhelms me. E B I let a few of my defenses fall C# And I smile a bitter smile, F# It's not a pretty thing to see A I think about a railroad platform B Back in 1983 E A And I the train headed E A South out of Bangkok B A E Down, down toward toward the water

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See America Right

Got on the bus half drunk again

Em I was driving up from Tampa

The driver glared at me Met up with you in Inglis

When the radiator burst I was three sheets to the wind

Thumbed a ride to Cedar Key Am If we never make it

A civilian saw me first Am And then there was the cop

Back to California

And then the children Em Standing on the corner C Your love is like a cyclone B In a swamp Em And the weather's getting warmer

Em I want you to know I love you C But my love is like B A dark cloud full of rain That's always right there Em Up above you Hey!

I was getting out of jail Em Heading to the Greyhound You said you'd hop on one yourself And meet me on the way down Am I was shaking way too hard to think Em Dead on my feet about to drop C Went and got the case B Of vodka from a car And walked the two miles Em To the bus stop

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Commandante G I'm gonna drink more whiskey D Than brendan behan. C And I'm gonna send my belongings G All to tripoli. Em G And I'm gonna ride home to california D C G With a banjo on my knee. G I'm never gonna turn off D The television. C G I'm just gonna let it run all night. Em I'm gonna plant root vegetables G Out in the backyard D And come summer I am going to

B D We're gonna sail through the night C G Sky like a pair of bottle rockets. G I got a great big secret D Written down somewhere. C I got a rosary to protect us G Both from harm. Em I got a storage locker G Full of cow figurines D And a laundry list of grievances

Treat you right C G So put on your Chairman Mao coat C G And let me clear my throat B C Lets turn this whole town upside down

Longer than my arm. C And I am never going back G To Cincinatti. C All those bridges have been G Burned down to the ground. C I got the jet pack G Strapped to my back D And I am waiting for you

And shake it 'til the coins D Come falling out of its pockets, C G Yeah put on your che guevara pin. C G Call the troops on in.

To come around. C G Yeah put on your chairman mao coat C G And let me clear my throat B C Lets turn this whole town upside down

And shake it 'til the coins D Come falling out of its pockets, C G Yeah put on your che guevara pin. C G Call the troops on in. B D We're gonna sail through the night N.C G Sky like a pair of bottle rockets.

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The Sign By Ace of Base

D I've got a new life G A You would hardly recognize me. D I'm so glad. G How could a person like me A Care for you? D Why should I bother G A When you're not the one? D I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign. Love is demanding G A Without understanding D Yeah I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign G A And noone's gonna drag you up. D Under the pale moon, G For so many years A D I've wondered who you are.

How could a person G A Like you bring me joy? D Under the pale moon G A D Where I see a lot of stars. D I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign.

D Yeah I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign G A And noone's gonna drag you up, hey! D G A D

Love is demanding G A Without understanding D Yeah I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign And noone's gonna drag you up. G To get into the light A D Where you belong. D I saw the sign G A And it opened up my eyes D I saw the sign. Love is demanding G A Without understanding

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The Boys are Back in Town By Thin Lizzy

G Guess who just got back today? Em D Them wild-eyed boys who had been away C D Hadn't changed, hadn't much to say C D I still think those guys are great G They were asking if you'd been around Em D How you was, where you could be found C D Told 'em you were living downtown C D Driving all the old men crazy G The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town) G C D The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town) G You that chick who used to dance a lot? Em Every night she'd be on the floor, D shaking what she'd got C Man, when I tell you was cool, D she was red hot

C D I mean, she was steaming G And that time over at Johnny's place Em Well this chick she got up D and she slapped Johnny's face C D Man, we just fell about the place C If that chick don't wanna know, D then forget her G The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town) G C D The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town)

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G That jukebox in the corner Em blasting out my favorite song D The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long C D Won't be long till summer comes C D Now that the boys are here again G The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town) G C D The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town)

G The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town) G C D The boys are back in town C D (The boys are back in town)

G Friday night they'll be dressed to kill Em D Down at Dino's bar and grill C D Drink will flow and blood will spill C And if the boys wanna fight, D you better let 'em

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Game Shows Touch Our Lives G Cadd9 F6sus2 G Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin C That stuff tastes like medicine F C G But I'll take it It'll do G On the couch in the living room all day long C Music on the television playing our song F C G I'm in the mood, the mood for you G Cadd9 F6sus2 x2 G Turn the volume up real high C All of that money, look at it fly F C G And you smoking, like a chimney G Shadows crawled across the living room's length C I held onto you with a desperate F With everything, C with everything D And I handed you

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C of the lovely little thing G On which our survival depends D People say friends C don't destroy one another C D What do they know about friends?

G filled with fabulous prizes G Cadd9 F6sus2 x2

G Cadd9 F6sus2 x2 G Thunderclouds forming cream white moon C Everything's going to be okay soon F C G Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day G Carried you up the stairs that night C All of this could be yours if the price is right F C I heard cars headed down to oblivion, G up on the expressway D Your drunken kisses as light as the air C Maybe everything that falls down G eventually rises D Our house sinking into disrepair C Ah but look at this showroom

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Heretic Pride A D A D Well they come and pull me A from my house And they drag my body D through the streets And the sun’s so hot E D I think I’ll catch fire and burn up A in the summer air so moist and sweet A And the people all come out to cheer D Rocks in the pathway break my skin And there’s honeysuckle E D on the faint breeze today A With every breath I’m drawing in F#m I want to cry out but D I don’t scream and I don’t shout A D And I feel so proud to be alive A E And I feel so proud D A when the reckoning arrives

A Crowds grow denser by the second D As we near the center of the town And they dig a trench E D right in the main square right there A And they pick me up and throw me down A And I start laughing like a child D And I mark their faces one by one Transfigurations gonna E D come for me at last A And I will burn hotter than the sun F#m I waited so long D and now I taste jasmine on my tongue A D And I feel so proud to be alive A E And I feel so proud D A when the reckoning arrives A D A D

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Michael Meyers Resplendent E B Am E E B Am E E B A E I am ready for my close up today E B Too long I’ve let A E my self-respect stand in my way C#m E Well the prom queen's Am E caught in the high beams C#m E Am B And the strings keen it’s a big scene E C#m But when the house goes up in flames F#m A No one emerges triumphantly from it E When the scum begins C#m to circle the drain F#m Am Everybody loves a winner

Am E and the frame's tight C#m E Try to get right; well, A B we’ve still got light E C#m But when the house goes up in flames F#m Am No one emerges triumphantly from it E When the scum begins C#m to circle the drain F#m Am Everybody loves a winner E C#m But when the house goes up in flames F#m A E When the scum begins C#m to circle the drain F#m A E B A E E B A A

E B Am E E B Am E E B I spent eight hours A E in my make-up chair E B Waxed my chest and A E shaved off all my hair C#m E Well the fire's bright

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Your Belgian Things D G D G D The men were here Em to get your Belgian things Em They'll store them for you A in an airplane hangar D There's guys in biohazard suits, Em Mud kicking on their rubber boots Em They've come to keep your Aadd4 A pretty things from danger D G D G D The men were here Em to get your Belgian things Em They'll spend the whole day A hauling them downstairs D Em I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures My camera groans Aadd4 A beneath the weight it bears

G A I can see you in my sleep D Playing the points G for all you're worth Aadd4 Walking gingerly across A D G the bruised earth D The men were here Em to get your Belgian things They waltzed right through the door A and went flourescent D Their boots were black and shiny Em and your treasures gleamed like stars Bones from deep down Aadd4 A in the fertile crescent D G D G D The arteries are clogging Em in the mainframe There's too much information A in the pipes D I saw the mess you left Em up in the east bedroom A tiger's never gonna Aadd4 change its stripes

G A I guess, I guess F#m G But Jesus what a mess G D One way in and G A No way out

D The men were here Em to get your Belgian things A And only I was here to see them do it D Em I wish you had a number where you are It's hard with no one here Aadd4 A to help me through it G A I can see you in my sleep D Playing the points G for all you're worth Aadd4 Walking gingerly across A D G the bruised earth D G D G D G D G

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Pigs That Ran Straightway Into the Water, Triumph of D D you're gonna send me back G to where I came from D Please don't send me back G to where I came from D Let me go A where the white magnolias grow D D You're gonna fit me G for that orange jumpsuit D Please don't fit me G for that orange jumpsuit D Let me ride A where the dragonflies glide D Yeah but you're going to do G what you wanna do D A No matter what I ask of you D You think you hold the high hand G I've got my doubts

D I come from Chino A D where the asphalt sprouts D Big bus headed southeast G from the courthouse D But I'm not headed southeast G from the courthouse D Let some mysterious chunk A of space debris G A Puncture the roof and set me free D D G And even if I have to go to Claremont D Well I guess I'll just have to go G to Claremont D A Let me go, Let me lie low D Yeah but you're going to do G what you wanna do D A No matter what I ask of you D And you send your dark messengers G to tempt me D I come from Chino A D so all your threats are empty

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Sax Rohmer #1 C Fog lifts from the harbor Em Dawn goes down to day Am An agent crests the shadows F Of a nearby alleyway C Piles of broken bricks Em signposts on the path Am every moment points toward F the aftermath, yeah C Dm F C Dm F C Sailors straggle back Em from their nights out on the town Am hopeless urchins from the city F gather around C Spies from imperial China Em wash in with the tide Am Every battle heads toward F surrender on both sides C Am And I am coming home to you F C G With my own blood in my mouth

C Am And I am coming home to you F G C If it's the last thing that I do

C Dm F C Dm F C Dm F C Dm F C Bells ring in the tower Em Wolves howl in the hills Am Chalkmarks show up F On a few high windowsills C And a rabbit gives up somewhere Em And a dozen hawks descend Am Every moment leads toward F Its own sad end, yeah

C Am And I am coming home to you F C G With my own blood in my mouth C Am And I am coming home to you F G C If it's the last thing that I do C Dm F C Dm F C Dm F C Dm F C

C Dm F C Dm F C Ships loosed from their moorings Em Capsize and then they're gone Am Sailors with no captains watch F a while and then move on C And an agent crests the shadows Em And I head in her direction Am All roads lead toward F The same blocked intersection

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Barn av Vår Tid C#m A Vi är barn av vår tid C#m A Vi är barn av vår tid C#m E A Är du rädd för ditt eget barn A B A B Lilla mamma? C#m A C#m A Våra tidsfördriv, våra tidsfördriv C#m E A Är att slå pensionärer på käften F#m B Eller hur, lilla mamma...? C#m A E Vaktbolagen kommer snart C#m A E Då blir det en jävla fart C#m A E C#m A B Dom har betalt för att jaga ungar C#m A E Gården är stängd för länge sen C#m A E Snuten jagar tonårsgäng C#m A Natten är så hård E C#m A B För betongens kungar C#m A Vi är barn av vår tid C#m A Vi är barn av vår tid C#m E A Är du rädd för ditt eget barn A B A B Lilla mamma? Ebm B Thinnertrasan vandrar mellan husen Ebm B Thinnertrasan tänder alla ljusen Ebm Thinnertrasan tar mig F# C# Till ett annat land

F# B C# Där jag kan vara en höghus baby F# B C# F# Säga till tjejen att, maybye B B F# Så kan vi segla på molnen tillsammans B Come on my darling B F# Vi glömmer allt annat Ebm B Farsan sitter hemma framför TV:n Ebm B Morsan sitter antagligen breve Ebm Lika bra att ta sig F# C# Ner till EPA:s torg F# B C# Där kan vi låta betongen gunga! F# B C# F# Gasa och sniffa och flumma! B Där kan vi segla på molnen F# F# tillsammans B Come on my darling B F# Vi glömmer allt annat F# Kom igen lilla Svensson B F# Sätta hårt mot hårt är våran stil Hatar du oss, så hatar vi dig B F# Betong feeling! Ödmjuka bracka B F# Som bugar för överheten Du skickar snuten på ungar B F# Sen sover du snällt i borgarsmeten

C#m Blev du rädd nu din fega fan F# För ditt eget barn??? Jag vet att du sliter varje dag B F# på fabriken Men om det ska gå ut över mig B F# så blir jag besviken! För vi är inte snälla B F# Vi krachar systemets fönster Inte husses hund B F# Inga krypande svassande mönster C#m Blev du rädd nu, din fega fan F# För ditt eget barn...? Ab A Det enda du kommer på A B C# Sy in din son på en kåk F# Ab A Vissla på en snutlakej A B C# Så kommer dom och hämtar mej F# Ab A Medan borgarasen flinar A B C# Åt hur jobbardräggen svinar F# Ab A Farsan, tänk till! B C# Vad är det du vill???! F# DOM BURAR IN DINA EGNA BARN! DOM BURAR IN DINA EGNA BARN! DOM BURAR IN DINA EGNA BARN! B F# DOM BURAR IN DINA EGNA BARN!

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Bängen Trålar E Om du letar efter röka B E när du är I Göteborg Upp vid Näckrosdammen, Vasaparken B E eller Femmans torg B Kom ihåg, skvallerbytta bingbång, B A sitter som på nålar B Ett tu tre är bängen där och trålar A Och torskar du finns E ingen förmildrande omständighet E En september eftermiddag B E lägger man sej I Allén Och man tänder liten braja, B E gottar sej I solens sken B Men du vet, skvallerbytta bingbång, B A slickar alla skålar B Ett tu tre är bängen där och trålar A Och torskar du finns E ingen förmildrande omständighet

E Och du går på en nit D och sen åker du dit A G A En semester på vatten och bröd E Där är tillvaron hård, D där finns samhällets vård A G A Och dom vårdar dej intill din död E För sånt är systemet E Kolla in dom du gillar, D dom tjejer och killar A G A Som sitter I samma båt E Och gå hem och tänk över, D fall någon behöver A G A Polis för att göra nåt åt E Själva pundarproblemet

A Och klasstillhörigheten är en E förmildrande omständighet E För den som själv har nåt att dölja B E ropar på förstärkt polis Propagandaapparaten skyddar dom B E på alla vis B Miljonärerna och B A skattefifflarna går fria B Dom handlar aldrig bara för en tia A Och klasstillhörigheten är en E förmildrande omständighet Bängen trålar Bängen trålar Bängen trålar

E För den som själv har nåt att dölja B E ropar på förstärkt polis Propagandaapparaten skyddar dom B E på alla vis B Miljonärerna och B A skattefifflarna går fria B Dom handlar aldrig bara för en tia

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Käth C F G Jag såg henne två bord bort C F G Bleka, blyga, torra Käth C F G Ensam kvar, ja ensam lämnad C F G Satt med händerna i knät C F G Jag såg henne två bord bort C F G Blek och blyg och kort och tjock C F G Satt allén och krökte rygg C F G Ingen humor, inget snygg Bb F Ensam i ett hav av söta, G Am åtråvärda, glada flickor Bb F Sökande, nervös och rädd, G med händerna på sina fickor C F G Jag blev så kåt så jag grät C F G Jag fick sån ribba så det lät C F G Här är en tjej i min egen division Här är en tjej C F G som kan nöja sig med mig Här är en tjej C G F G som inte har nåt val att tala om C F G Här är en tjej i min egen division

Här är en tjej C F G som kan nöja sig med mig C Här är en tjej som inte har nåt val F G D A G D och nöjer sig med mig _________________________________

Riktiga Killar C Riktiga killar kan allting G om videos och utegrillar Riktiga kjellar frågar aldrig C nån om lov vid pokerkvällar Riktiga män heter Kent å Glenn å har F Buttericksskämt på kalsingen C Skojar om judar, få ett flabb, G C Så funkar en riktig grabb F C Men de e lite gay å ha en tjej Am Riktiga killar mäter kuk, F G snackar trav å blottar sig C F Riktiga killar tar en porrfilmskväll C G C Har man en tjej e man homosexuell

C Revbensspjäll och HB-nubbar Riktiga ess tar ett ton i press, F snackar tvåzons å ABS C Skojar om negrer, tar poäng, G C Så funkar en grabb i gäng F C Men de e lite gay å ha en tjej Am Riktiga killar gör situps, F G Bryter arm å puckar sig C F Riktiga killar tar en porrfilmskväll C G C Har man en tjej e man homosexuell F C Men de e lite gay å ha en tjej Am Riktiga killar hugger ved, F G Spelar golf å solar sig C F Riktiga killar tar en porrfilmskväll C G C Har man en tjej e man homosexuell

C Riktiga grabbar klappar takt G Till Gary Moore med jobbarlabbar Härliga gubbar bjuder fint med

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Blanda Inte Sprit och GHB

Från Far Till Son

C Vi var tio glada gubbs F C Som in på restaurangen gled C Bord för tolv beställt, G Men två kom aldrig med C Och ett tag så var vi sjutton pers, F C Men några backa ur C G C Och en annan gång så var vi tjugotre

C När jag var fyllda 16 år, F Så sa min far till mig C Att jag tror att det e dags att ta G ett vänligt snack med dig C ett råd från far till son, F från en som varit med om allt C Am och detta var det råd han gav F G C som jag har lytt sen jag var palt. C Gå aldrig långt med en tjej F Som har gonorré och AIDS C Som har mystiska munsår G och plitor i sitt fejs C C7 F Fm Man får lida för lättfotad erfarenhet C Am Och man får gå på läkarebesök F G C och penicillindiet.

C Som skrek, My lady, you know, F C Ingen alkohol till oss Ställ undan allt det där vi ber, G Blott läsk i glasen här my dear C My lady, you know, F C Blott för eran skull det e, Man blir konstig G C När man blandar sprit och GHB

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C Den som lyder råd är vis, F Jag svalde varje ord C Om jag lyder pappas råd G Så går jag säker på vår jord C Så tjejer om ni ser mig

F så vet ni vad ni får C Am en svendom på 24 år F G C som köpt en Labrador. C Och jag går aldrig långt med en tjej F Som har gonorré och AIDS C Som har mystiska munsår G och plitor i sitt fejs C C7 F Fm Man får lida för lättfotad erfarenhet C Am Och man får gå på läkarebesök F G C och penicillindiet. C Gå aldrig långt med en tjej F Som har gonorré och AIDS C Som har mystiska munsår G och plitor i sitt fejs C C7 F Fm Man får lida för lättfotad erfarenhet C Am Och man får gå på läkarebesök F G C och penicillindiet. C Am Och man får gå på läkarebesök F G C och penicillindiet. C Am Och man får gå på läkarebesök F G C och penicillindiet.

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Jävlaranammas Sittningsvisa Höj nu glasen glada bröder Vi skall kröka så vi blöder Vi skall dricka såna ruskiga volymer Ut ur Bacci sköna källa Våra skallar skola smälla Mot betongen, där vi bryter fram som Ymer Fäll, drick ur nu, gutår Svep och häv så fort det går Halsa blint, ters och kvint Levern blir som en korint Höj nu glasen glada bröder Vi skall kröka så vi blöder Sociala späkningar I fekala kräkningar

Flong Nya Loafers D C D C Matjessill hör sommarn till D C D C Om vintern vi staka i spåren. D C D C Röda löv är höstsigill D C D C Men höjdpunkten kommer om våren. G A D Bm Våren kommer med glädjebud, G D A Årets höjdpunkt är kvar. G A D Bm Trollar fram ur en brun kartong G D A Vårens vackraste par D Bm G Em Sprillans nya vita skor D Bm Flong nya loafers G A Som lyser som solar D Bm G Em Sprillans nya vita skor D Bm VCT-byxor G A D C Med tubsockor utanpå.

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G A D Bm Våren kommer med glädjebud, G D A Årets höjdpunkt är kvar. G A D Bm Trollar fram ur en brun kartong G D A Vårens vackraste par D Bm G Em Sprillans nya vita skor D Bm Flong nya loafers G A Som lyser som solar D Bm G Em Sprillans nya vita skor D Bm VCT-byxor G A D C Med tubsockor utanpå.

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D C D C Vårens tid är väderblid. D C D C Vitsippor prunka i snåren D C D C Sommarn bränner skinnen vid D C D C Men vårvindar svalka kring låren

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G C G Du är min bäste vän

G C Det är fredag kväll, Am D och det sjunger i blodet, G C Ett par stora stark, Am D och det skevar i lodet, G C Det är veckans belöning, Am D när skiftet gjort halt, G C Man är mild och patetisk, Am D och pratar om allt, G C Här på svajiga ben, Am D till ett cover-band på scen, G C Am D Alla flickor är Lili Marlene, G C Här skrider ett gäng Am D I rätt fuktig terräng, G C Am D Och alla skanderar dom samma refräng,

G C Det är freda kväll, Am D och det gungar i pungen, G C Och stolta Mary, Am D Omskrik- och omsjungen, G C Det är veckans final, Am D man blir lätt pubertal, G C När skinkorna klibbar, Am D och ölen är sval, G C Här står jag och mitt vin, Am D och en skev tamburin, G C Am D Alla flickor är Lena Olin, G C Am D Någon har lagt, sin arm om en vakt, G C Am D Och svettiga ansikten gungar i takt

G C G Du är min bäste vän, G C D Du fattar precis vad jag menar, G C G Hur världen än snor och vrir, G C D Vår vänskap oss alltid förenar C G Fyllerfloskerna flyger och far, C D Viner kring öronen känn hur det drar,

G C G Du är min bäste vän, G C D Du fattar precis vad jag menar, G C G Hur världen än snor och vrir, G C D Vår vänskap oss alltid förenar C G Fyllerfloskerna flyger och far, C D Viner kring öronen känn hur det drar, G C G Du är min bäste vän

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Hästtransporten C En solig dag, jag satt och mös F C på cykeln ner till stranden, C Jag möttes så av blåa ljus, G men fortsatte förbi C En lång polis kom mot mig F C och han vinkande med handen F C Och bad mej stanna till en stund, G C tills vägen rensats fri C Det var en hästtransport som hade vält, F C en häst låg klämd i diket C En timme kvar att leva, G sa Blå Stjärnans veterinär, C Det var en hästtransport som hade vält, F C en flicka grät besviket F C Polisen stod runt hästens kropp, G C med laddade gevär

C Det fanns dock kvar en liten chans, G att rädda honom än C Och ben och ryggar spändes, F C För att lyfta bil och kärra F C Men någon slant och bilen föll, G C Tillbaka tungt igen, C Det var en hästtransport som hade vält, F C en häst låg klämd i diket C En timme kvar att leva, G sa Blå Stjärnans veterinär, C Det var en hästtransport som hade vält, F C en flicka grät besviket F C Polisen stod runt hästens kropp, G C med laddade gevär

C Och hästen låg med ryggen böjd, F C I onaturlig vinkel,

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Pickadulverman C F Det kan hända ibland G Am att man är tråkad och längtar ut C F Det kan hända att man tröttnar G på det man gör C F Man kan känna sig deppad G Am och vill att livet ska ta slut C F G Allt man ser är tristessens grå kulör F G Man läser i tidningen Am om folk som förgör, F G Am Där ser man hur verkligheten är F G Man läser i tidningen Am om folk som förstör F C G och det är klart man vill va med! C G Tänk att få vara pickadulverman Am C I vilda västern, rida runt och G Am skjuta folk ifrån hästen C G E7 Skjuta indianer och indianers barn, F deras husdjur, katter och hundar G C Våldta deras fruar och svina som fan C F Det är klart att det är tråkigt

G Am att aldrig få vara sig själv C F Tänk att leva ett liv G Och aldrig släppa loss C F Att lägga band på sina känslor G Am kan aldrig vara bra, C F G om man är en hyvens som vill slåss F G Tänk så orättvis Am vår hemska värld kan va F G Am Varför är det inte krig i alla land? F G Oh alla människor Am borde ha det lika bra F C G och få slåss nån gång ibland

C G E7 Sparka på brudar som ligger ner F G Och skjuta med gevär C Tills ingen reser sig mer C G Tänk att få leva i ett land Am helt utan lagar, C G Am skjuta alla djuren som går i hagar C G E7 Rusa in i lagårn och skrika ko! F G Och sticka den i bonden... F G Och sticka den i bonden... F G Och sticka den i bonden, C bondens bror

C G Tänk att få vara pickadulverman Am C I vilda västern, rida runt och G Am skjuta folk ifrån hästen C G E7 Skjuta indianer och indianers barn, F deras husdjur, katter och hundar G C Våldta deras fruar och svina som fan C G Tänk att en gång få gå bärsärkargång Am C G på ett disco, veva som en väderkvarn Am med en skridsko

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Surt Sa Räven (Hellre) D G D G D G D Jag sitter själv ( han sitter själv) G D Bredvid en öl (Bredvid en öl) D Bm G Och mina kompisar dom dansar A (dom dansar) D G D Dom får en kram (dom får en kram) G D Dom får en puss (dom får en puss) D Bm G Dom får addressen av en tös A med långt, brunt hår

Bm G Och jag är ensam kvar igen A D (han är ensam kvar igen) G D Och nästa dag (och nästa dag) G D Så får man höra (så får man höra) Bm G A Hur jävla villiga dom va (stååååååå)

D G Lala la lala laala D G Lala, la lala la D Bm G A D Bm G A Lala la lalalala, lalalala lalalala

Bm A G Men jag mår bra (men han mår bra) Bm A G Är glad ändå (är glad ändå) Bm A G Jag har mej själv (han har sej själv) Bm A Jag tycker såååå

Bm A G Men jag mår bra (men han mår bra) Bm A G Är glad ändå (är glad ändå) Bm A G Jag har mej själv (han har sej själv) Bm A Jag tycker såååå

D G Hellre dricka än dansa, D G hellre pilsner än puss D Bm G A Hellre kass på allmänt dass D Bm G A än petting bak i buss

D G Hellre dricka än dansa, D G hellre pilsner än puss D Bm G A Hellre kass på allmänt dass D Bm G A än petting bak i buss

D G Hellre rödvin än rotting, D G hellre spyfull än kåt D Bm G A Hellre likblek bäras ut, D Bm G A än gruppsex på nån fånig båt

D G D Så går dom ut (så går dom ut) G D Med arm om hals (med arm om hals)

Hellre supa än knulla Hellre spya än sats Hellre dret i snutpiket än gangbang på parkeeeeeringsplats!

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Trött och Spytt G C G Em Alla sa att allting skulle bli så kul C D Så jag lät mig bjudas med, C D jag menar kul är ju kul ju. G C Sitsen satt och helan kom G Em och halvan gick C D Så jag lät mig luras med, C D jag menar nu är ju nu ju C D Och allting var så jättekul G C och allting gick så fort D G Nu sitter jag här på ett cykelställ C D och undrar vad jag gjort G D Och jag är trött och jag har spytt Bm C och fått på käften av ett golv G Nu sitter jag och suger på en Em C D pissvåt fimp och fingrar på en spänn G D och jag är full och jag är näck Bm C och jag har snott och supit väck G Em C och jag önskar mina polare var här... D G Istället för mig

G C G Em Alla packade in och gick på efterfest C D Och jag lät mig luras med, C D Jag menar grupptryck är grupptryck G C Alla sjöng Jacques Brel G Em och tände rökelse C D Och jag sköt visst heroin C D och drack nån sprit med ett T på C D Och allting var så jättekul G C och allting gick så fort D G Nu ligger jag här i en trappuppgång C D och undrar vad jag gjort G D Och jag är trött och jag har spytt Bm C och fått på käften av ett golv G Nu ligger jag och slickar på en Em C D fiberpäls och fingrar på min pung G D Jag var snygg och jag var fräck, Bm C Men jag fick sladd och gick i däck G Em Och jag önskar att min älskade C D G var här... istället för mig

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Karneval I Stan C F Det regnade konfetti Am F Alla kysste alla C G Göran Johansson höll tal F I finkostym C F Kortege med Göta Lejon Am F Sambatrummor smällde C G Göran Johansson höll tal F I fin kostym Am C F Och mitt i alltihop stod jag Am C F På denna stora glädjens dag Det var den dagen då C F Bosse Hansson lovade C Am F Att aldrig kommentera fotboll mer G Vi sköt upp signalraketer F G Och sjöng om vad fan han nu heter C F När Bosse Hansson lovade C Am F Att aldrig kommentera fotboll mer G Vi rister i glädjespasmer F G Och skakar i skrattorgasmer

F En barnkör sjunger G C ’We shall overcome’ ___________________________________

King of the Sittring C Hon stod helt själv i baren, F klädd i brunt och sög på läsk G Jag styrde mina steg dithän C och körde lite fjäsk Jag bjöd på gröna drinkar F med orangea paraplyn G Och sa att hon var jättesmal, C och rätt så fräsch i hyn Jag visade hur stark jag var F och flyttade en vägg G Tog polisgrepp på en grabb C och drack två råa ägg Och sa att jag var känd artist, F och hade just fått gage G Och körde ner tvåtusen spänn C I hennes dekolletage

F G Vi snackade en stund om min PC F G Sen smög vi iväg in på WC F G Hon sa att hon kom ifrån Ångermanland F G Sen lossade hon sitt BH-band C F G Jag pep iväg, jag stack som ett skott F När hon kom ut från toa C kan hon inte fattat nåt G Jag smörjde in mina pubishår, F Med en Fanta light G och ett kycklinglår F G Sen rökte jag fyra gram hasch, F G C och blockade ner en smash

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Hur Fan Ska Jag Hävda Mig Nu C Jag var kung några år, F jag var festernas mitt G Det var aldrig nån som putte’ mig F och sa: ’sköt du ditt’ C Jag var killarnas grabb, F jag var tjejernas klipp G Det var alltid nån som tyckte F att jag var lite hipp G Nu står jag här och fattar ingenting F G Varför spelar ingen TP längre F G Hjärnornas kamp F G Per Lagerqvist, HNO3 C Jag hade fem-och-noll i nian, F och fem-och-noll på NA C Satt längst fram i klassen F och hade med mig penna C Jag kan varenda land, F 29 ben i varje hand G Och så spelar ingen TP längre

C Am Hur fan skall jag hävda mig nu F G C Am Hur fan skall jag hävda mig nu F G C

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Kex och Shorts C Jag gick upp till huset F G För att hämta kex å shorts F Men när jag kom dit G C Så kom jag inte på F G Vad jag skulle upp å hämta, C F Så jag vände om och gick G Ner till stranden där de andra satt C Och frågade som så

C F Upp till huset än en gång G Och på vägen dit så sjöng jag på C En liten minnessång Vad var det jag sjöng nu igen? Kex å Shorts! C Kex å shorts, så sjöng jag, F Kex å shorts, C För att inte glömma bort just G Kex å shorts F G Å jag vissla å jag sjöng C F Å jag gick loss å jag gick fel G Ut i skogen där jag bröt ett ben, C Å sen svalt jag ihjäl!

Vad var det jag skulle hämta nu igen? Kex å Shorts! C Kex å shorts, ja just det, F Kex å shorts, C Det var det jag skulle hämta, G Kex å shorts F G Så jag vände om i gruset

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Håll Mig När Snuten Går Förbi C Vi har vart tillsammans en vecka nu F Å visst har vi haft det bra G Sen minns du idag, När jag sa det där jag sa C F G Ja, då såg jag att du blev glad C Å jag har inte sparat på loverna, F när vi har vart på galej G Men nu är det nog så, att jag måste nog få C G En tjänst tillbaks av dig

C Å minns du när du bad mig i telefon, F Att säga nåt snällt till dig G Ja, det gjorde jag ju, Men nu är det nog du C G Som får göra nåt för mig C F Håll mig när snuten går förbi G Torka av mitt våta skägg, C G Med kycklingbitar i C F Kyss mig och res mig ur bersån G Skym mig för polisen C Tills de stuckit härifrån

C F Håll mig när snuten går förbi G Res mig ur rabatten C G Med de gula blomstren i C F Kyss mig när månen lyser vit G Tryck mig emot väggen C G När polisen tittar hit C Minns du när vi hyrde den videon, F Som du var så sugen på? G Då sa jag okej, ja så är det med mig, C F G Jag agerar så ofta så.

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Min Ungdom C F Jag minns min ungdoms prägeleld Am G Jag minns på året hur hon är C F I min ungdoms vår, i helt rätt skola G Jag fick min karaktär C F Där blev jag en gång medlem Am G I en eftertraktad klubb F C Minns glada dar, i datasexet G C å på deltas pub C Å det var där jag drack min första öl G Å där min första kyss jag stal Där fick jag första gången höra någon C Kalla mig neandertal Där har jag tömt rätt många bägare F Där har jag fått rätt mycket stryk C Där har jag krökat till mig hallisar G C Och blivit skjutsad ner till psyk C Där har jag spytt på folk Som burit mig G Där har jag stått helt näck i kön Där har jag legat under bänkarna

C Och tittat upp i flickors kön Där har jag svinat mig

C Där har jag runkat folk i toakön G C För att få taxipengar hem

Längs samma stig F Som andra framgångsrika män C Där har jag deflorerat aspare G C Som inte fått nåt könshår än C Där fick jag smaka punsch å alkoläsk G Där fick jag smaka gonorré Där har jag slickat list Vid stängningsdags C Å stulit öl av CCC Där har jag hälsat med karateslag F Där har jag nickat stuckatur C Där fick jag lära mig av gamla sexor G C Hur man tillfredsställer djur C Där har jag däckat i en pisseränna, G Onanerat i en hiss Där har jag gycklat kul på sittningar C Och tvingats dricka andras piss Där har jag snutit mig i klänningar F Där har jag piercat röv å lem

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Ett Varningens Ord C Här kommer ett varningens ord Dm Inför kvällens fest G Från en som håller på C Att nyktra te som bäst C Dm Ett varningens ord från en som står G C Å skakar efter groggarna igår C Dm Ett varningens ord från en darrig vän G Som måste kröka te C För att bli fräsch igen C Dm Ett varningens ord om vi ses ikväll G C Håll undan några meter är du snäll F C Om du ser mig stå över kökets vask G Å ansiktet är vredet C Som en Buttericksmask F C Om jag snurrar fram i en bred ellips G Ta då ett ödmjukt tips C Å sätt dig inte alldeles Framför min mun min vän Sätt dig inte alldeles

G Framför min mun ikväll igen C Om du ser mig tippa över F Om jag nickar till en stund C G Sätt dig då inte alldeles C Framför min mun C Här kommer ett varningens ord Dm Från en gamäng G Vars mage nu är spänd C Som en banjosträng C Dm Ett varningens ord från en som stått G C På muggen hela dan å samlat spott C Ett varningens ord Dm från en sleten karl G Vars innanmäte snurrar C Som ett folkdanspar C Ett varningens ord Dm inför kvällens fest G C Från en som låter som han ätit jäst

C På januariskrå F Om jag däckat tungt C I en skål med chips G Ta då ett ödmjukt tips C Å sätt dig inte alldeles Framför min mun min vän Sätt dig inte alldeles G Framför min mun ikväll igen C Om du ser mig tippa över F Om jag nickar till en stund C G Sätt dig då inte alldeles C Framför min mun

F C Om du ser mig stå utan brallor på G Om jag går som om jag gick

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Angelique Wiklunds Boxer E C#m Det var rätt jobbigt då, A E men jag kan prata om det nu E A Jag hade däckat på en fest B7 och vaknat upp vid sex-halvsju E C#m Jag frågade en polare: A E ’Var festen nåt att ha?’ E A Min gode vän såg ängslig ut, B7 E men harklade sig och sa A B7 Att han hade hört nåt ljud E A ifrån rummet där jag låg B7 Att han hade tittat in A B7 och blivit chockad när han såg E Att jag hade blitt påsatt C#m A av Angelique Wiklunds boxer E B7 Oh no, oh yes, all right E Att jag hade blitt påsatt C#m A av Angelique Wiklunds boxer E B7 E Oh no, oh yes, all night B7 Hold on tight

E C#m Jag satte mig en stund A E och fick förklarat vad som hänt E A Angelique och hunden lekte B7 med en pinne i en slänt E C#m Hon och hunden brottades, A E och runt i backen gled E A Jag hade kommit pilande B7 E och ville vara med A B7 Jag hade plockat fram E A Monopol och plockepinn A B7 Jag hade fjäskat på, A B7 och fått hunden med mig in E Jag ville visst bli påsatt C#m A av Angelique Wiklunds boxer E B7 Oh no, oh yes, all right E Att jag hade blitt påsatt C#m A av Angelique Wiklunds boxer E B7 E Oh no, oh yes, all night B7 Hold on tight

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Bernts Salonger C F Du och jag är vänner sedan länge G Am C Vi är vänner vi, vi känner oss vi två F G Vi har varit med om mycket vi C Du och jag har trampat F varann i stegen G Am Hjälpt varandra hitta vägen C F Snackat med varandra i svåra lägen, G vi är ett team F Och när man talar om dig, G så nämner man mig C Och när man talar om mig Em F så glömmer man aldrig dig G Du vet vad jag menar C F G Du och jag är som Knoll och Tott Em Am F G Som en pensionär och en bingolott Em Am Som kuk och pung genom världen vida F G Vi hänger trötta vid varandras sida C F G Du och jag är som Bill och Bull Em Am Vi är som en Aurora F G och ett fingerpull

Em Am Vi hänger ihop som ost och vin F G C Som en Acacio och en tub vaselin Dm Em Dm C F Och när man talar om dig, G så nämner man mig C Och när man talar om mig Em F så glömmer man aldrig dig G Du vet vad jag menar C F G Du och jag är som spott och spe Em Am F G Som en folkölsfylla och diarré Em Am Du och jag är som kor och klöver F Som Jonas Thern G och ett skott högt över C F G Du och jag är som sprit och pors Em Am Vi är som kissestrålar F G I ett kissekors Em Am Vi hänger ihop som Yin och Yang F Som en efterfest G C och ett Pepsilavemang Dm Em Dm C

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Äntligen Måndag C F Kling klingelång, hör klockans sång G C Kvart över fem med morgonfjong Am Skuttar upp ur sängen F som en möbelfjäder G Vintermornar är det vinterväder C F Dansar ut i köket i fyra plus G C Almanackan får sig en morgonpuss Am F Skottar i mig yoggi och havrefras G C G Nu är det spontankalas C Nu är det äntligen måndag, äntligen F Och livet börjar på nytt igen C Veckan är kommen, helgen försvunnen G Alla plockar fram den glada munnen C Man tjoar och man klappar F som en negerkör G C Hela bussen sjunger vår busschaufför Am F Äntligen måndag, äntligen G C G och livet blir kul igen

C F Kling klingelång, hör klockans sång G C Alla stämplar in med ett tigersprång Am F Nån gör en Daffy, cheferna jojkar G Alla skuttar runt som Hakarpspojkar C F Flickorna får blommor av en ABAB-vakt G C Timmarna erar i en faslig takt Am F Solen tittar in i en fönsterglugg G C G Och alla kör en måndagsbugg C Nu är det äntligen måndag, äntligen F Och livet börjar på nytt igen C Veckan är kommen, helgen försvunnen G Alla plockar fram den glada munnen C Man tjoar och man klappar F som en negerkör G C Hela bussen sjunger vår busschaufför Am F Äntligen måndag, äntligen G C G och livet blir kul igen C GC

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Filosofens Hammare C F Gittan och Jonny hade tränat ihop C Inför dansuppvisningen G på kursavslutningen C En tävling med pokal F och extra fina diplom C De hade trimmats samman G under två terminer nu F G Jonny lyfte skrot och var solariebrun F G Och Gittan sydde på en grej med paljetter C Men veckan före tävlingen F C fick Jonny en smäll över svankpartiet G C I en korplagsserie, och ringde F hem till Gittan och förklarade att C Han hade doktorns order G på att släppa tävlingen F Gittan blev förtvivlad G och hon satte sig apatisk C Framför "Rena rama Rolf" F medan tårarna rann Men då ringde det igen, G det var en vän från längesen F G Som kunde tänka sig hoppa in i tävlingen C Det var Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten F Dm med mänskliga egenskaper G Han har en härlig tajming C och ett jävla sväng

F Han är en grymt go gubbe G och en glad gamäng C Det var Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten F Dm som dansat med Gittan förut G Han ställer alltid upp C när allting känns helt bränt F G C Och han ger alltid 150 procent C F Gittan accepterade och dom stämde träff C Nere vid danslokalerna G på Stampens baksida C Och efter några timmar F C kände Gittan att allt liksom flöt igen G och skulle funka jättebra F Hermansson gick loss G för allt vad tyglarna höll F G Och förde Gittan i en känslosam two-step C Men efter några dagars träning F C kände nog Git Att hon fick kalla fötter, G för dom andra skulle nog C Se annorlunda på henne F C om hon nu dök upp Med en laxkotlett, G och hon beslöt att ringa upp F Hermansson och säga G att hon hade blitt sjuk C Och när hon ringde honom skämdes hon, F men han var rätt mjuk

F G Men efter fem minuter ringde nåt sött C Det var Se Upp För Gupp – den lilla varningsskylten F Dm Som stått vid Wikandersplatsen G Hon är en pigg triangel C och en grym dansös F Hon har en härlig aura G och ett jävla ös C Det var Se Upp För Gupp – den lilla varningsskylten F Dm Som erbjöd sig själv som partner G Fast det var tajt om tid C Ja, bara två dar kvar F Så kände Hermansson att G C "Nu var saken klar" Dm I taxin ner till tävlingen C fick Hermansson en skön idé Dm "Två för en i baren på El Paso" – C skall vi gå på det Dm Varningsskylten tvekade, C men dom gick dit iallafall F Och utanför vid bankomaten G träffade dom Karl Dyall C Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten F Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten Dm Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten G Hermansson, den lille laxkotletten

Fast han förstod vad allt berodde på G och kände sig stött

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Kälek C Vad är det som händer G F G på söndagsmorgon C G F G Vad är det för läbb i ögon och mun C Jag dundrar runt i rummet G F G och jag måste ha tobak C Drar i mig några treo, G F G en Sobril och en Lobak C G F G C G F Kälek, det måste vara kälek G C G F det måste vara kälek G C G F G det måste vara kälek C Jag sätter mig i sängen G F G och då dundrar raketen C Jag vänder mig mot väggen G F G och då snurrar tapeten C I en spya simmar slipsen G F G och en våt packe Prince C G F G Ketchup och vin på mina vita jeans C G F G C G F Kälek, det måste vara kälek G C G F det måste vara kälek

G C G F G det måste vara kälek

C Jag kryper runt och luktar G F G som ett dass på centralen C Jag har kvitton i min överrock G F G på mer än jag äger C Min lösa mage låter G F G som en SAAB-96a C Och allt som finns i kylen G F G är en halvflaska Jäger (och vinäger)

C G F G C G F Kälek, det måste vara kälek G C G F det måste vara kälek G C G F G det måste vara kälek Vadå?! Jag har ju snoppen ute nu ju!

C G F G C G F Kälek, det måste vara kälek G C G F det måste vara kälek G C G F G det måste vara kälek Satt väl en kvart, när jag såg den där tjejen Våga inte gå fram, ja det var det som var grejen Så jag tog mig en öl för att bli lite vass Sen tog jag en till, också gick jag på dass Köpte lite käk och en vinare till Men jag skämdes ändå, så en vinare till åsså en sexa stark som en järnek Sen måste jag ha svimmat av kärlek!

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1982 C F Jag går i hamnen bredvid Operan C F Ser hur staden öppnats upp C F Längs kajen roar sig turisterna Dm Det är nytt och blankt och större G Men det är inte som jag minns det C F De unga formar stan för sitt behov C F Ett annat tempo, annat tjöt C F De gamla ställena har nya namn Dm Det är nytt och blankt och inne, G Men det är inte som jag minns det F C Nu är det extra allt på allt Em F Och extra lås på varje dörr C Så visst blir man lätt nostalgisk G När man ser tillbaks på förr C G Det var mens överallt, Am C men vi gängande ändå C F Det var inget snack om saken, C G Bara in och pucka på Em Det var rött runt hela munnen F Em När man vakna dan därpå

C G Det var mens högt och lågt, F G C F G C F G Vad vi än gjorde, 1982, 1982, 1980C Man får en knuff av F någon mitt på stan C F Som går och skriver sms C F Längs gatan blinkar plasmaskärmarna Dm Det är bättre bild och större, G Men det är inte som jag minns det C F Jag minns snöbollskrig på gårdarna C F Och skridskor på vår fotbollsplan C F Det är december och nu regnar det Dm Och visst har det regnat förut, G Men det är inte som jag minns det

C Bara in och pucka Em Det var rött runt F När man vakna dan C Det var mens högt F Vad vi än gjorde,

G på hela munnen Em därpå G och lågt, G C F G C F G C 1982, 1982, 1982

F C Det blev en annan attityd, Em F När allt modernt och nytt tog vid C Så man blundar trött i soffan G Och man minns en annan tid C G Det var mens överallt, Am C men vi gängande ändå C F Det var inget snack om saken,

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Dom Är Ledsna C F G Fem på morgonen i New York City Am F G Går en man i en sliten gammal hatt C F G Sveper rocken kring den tunna kroppen Am Huttrar till, F G det har varit kallt i natt Dm Ser en strumpa G sticker ut ifrån hans sko Dm G Vandrar vidare, men utan framtidstro C F G Fem på morgonen i Hallonbergen Am F G Står en kvinna med gråten i sin hals C F G Tittar håglöst in i morgonsolen Am F G Hon är trött hon har inte sovit alls Dm Två av fem miljarder G människor på vårt klot Dm Men mot deras ångest G finns det ingen bot C För de är ledsna för att de inte F G är från Göteborg Am Dm De kan inte se hur Gustav Adolf F G Pekar på sitt torg

Bb F D# Det är inget fel på att vara etiop Dm Men inte riktigt rätt ändå, F C Det vet dom allihop Dm Am Och de gråter så det krampar, Bb Am När de får en inre syn Bb F Av hur vi som är från götet G C Dm Tar en öl på Avenyn C En fotbollskille får sitt genombrott F Och snackar proffskontrakt, G Am Med fem italienska klubbar,

Bb Det är inget fel F D# på att va från Mölndals bro Dm Men fjorton stopp med fyran F C Svider mer än man kan tro Dm Am Och de gråter så det krampar, Bb Am När de får en inre syn Av hur vi som är från götet F C Tar en öl på Avenyn

Men ändå känner han F G att tåget har gått C En annan kille med en ollonpiercing F Och en latexhuva skriker G Am "Ta mig i röven gubbar!" F G Men det ger honom inte nåt Dm G Samma tomma blick och tåra-salta smak Dm G Om man frågar säger båda samma sak C Att de är ledsna för att de inte F G är från Göteborg Am Dm De kan inte se polisen F G Dunka böss på Chapmans Torg

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TOM FRAMPTON

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Bring Da Ruckus D Well I go from town to town Bm Just me and my guitar A You can see me at all the protests G A Up on stage I'm such a star D But when the cops start charging Bm You can find me at the back A I'll be keeping safe my fingers G A While all you kids skulls get cracked G And afterwards I'll write songs D A Poking fun at your whole crew G A D I'm a better folksinger than you D All this time spent traveling Bm It gets lonesome on the road A And you know I can't stand

G A How 'bout I picture you undressed? G Save your talk of patriarchy, D A I'll go out and screw G A D I'm a better folksinger than you D And why eat dumpstered food Bm That at Whole Foods could be bought? A And why wear patched up clothing when G A There's new clothes from sweatshops? D Your cultures of resistance Bm Are just silly and e A Unless, of course, those cultures G A gigs for me to play G Trite exaggerations D A Of anarchists are cool G A D I'm a better folksinger than you

These rockstars G A But I've got these seeds to sow D Why should I consider Bm The power and privilege I possess A Baby when I get nervous up on stage,

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Conor Oberst Eat Your Heart Out C You keep running through my brain F G C F G Like a southbound train, Emily C And I try to be discrete F G But I’m starting to lose sleep F G Well I’m begging for you please, C F G Emily C What I’d do for one more chance F G C F G Or even half a glance, Emily C And if I catch you by his side F G I just might up and die F G C Oh to have you for my bride, Emily F Maybe we’ll cross paths one day when G C I've found someone new F And late at night you’ll whisper that C G You always loved me, too C But till then I can’t abide F G You done hurt my foolish pride F G But every song I write, C F G Emily, is for you

C Tried to clear you from my head F G Like you pushed me from your bed, C F G Emily C But to my dismay F G It’s getting harder everyday F G C Your scent never washed away, Emily C You took my heart in tact, F G C F G And now I want it back, Emily C You didn’t have to be so cruel F G You said, “it’s not me, it’s you,” F G C Even though it wasn’t true, Emily F So I’ll see you in Pittsburgh, G C next time I’m traveling through F And maybe you’ll smile at me C G like you used to do C But till then I can’t abide F G You done hurt my foolish pride F G And I won’t whisper nothing back, C Except this song to you

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A Brief Polemic

Bm And if these words could speak

Bm It’s the enactment of empire

imagine all the stories

in every spoken word Em It’s the violence implicit Fm in everyday discourse Bm It’s the traces of history deep inside ourselves Em Processes that made this fucking Fm War a state of health G To what extent are we implicated; Bm to what extent engaged? G Whose bodies get violated F7 and when are we enraged? Bm Sleepless staggering crowds at dawn,

they would tell Em What happened in the shadows Fm of the factory’s hollow shell G So can we now consent to this Bm but somehow not submit? G Is this our final compromise; F7 is this the final trick? Bm Well I’ll hold out another day and maybe some after that Em Language is theft and F7 It’s fucking time we stole it back Bm

I’m tired of this shit Em But it wears you down till suddenly F7 you catch yourself in it Bm Walking tightrope lines – these are struggles that we choose Em Until that rope gets fashioned Fm around our necks as a noose

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How Mikey and Me Almost Died Hitching to Chicago C Am Headed West to Chicago, G F It's a straight-shot on I-80 C Am In the back of a trailer, G F Which besides for us is empty F Well it's 98 degrees, Am and I'd kill for a breeze G F But this ride'll take us all the way F Besides Mikey's got sticks Am to keep rhythm to this shit G So I guess that we'll be okay... okay C

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Am to keep rhythm to this shit G So I guess that we'll be alright, Alright... C

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C Am Half naked and sweaty, G F We are laughing on the floor C Am 'Cause when your world is a trailer, G F There is no poverty, there is no way. F Well the water's run out Am And I have not a doubt G F We must be breaking a dozen laws F But Mikey's got sticks Am To keep rhythm to this shit G I'd take this ride again Without a pause, Without a pause C

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Guatemalan Rain C G With a pack on my back F G I watch the kids stack C G Freshly picked coffee F G In sixty pound stacks C G Just to make a little money F G To take back to their shacks Am G Since the day they were born F They’ve been under attack C G With flies in her eyes F G She looks to the skies C G F Where jesus is waiting for her G When she dies C G Or is that just the bossman F G Wearing a disguise? Am G She better muffle her cries F If she wants to see paradise C G F G What goes around comes back again C G Tell me who’s really winning F G In the end my friend C G F G And the sound of guatemalan rain

Am G Beats on our rooftops F To the same refrain C G Boss finds his way here F G Maybe two times a year C G And he swims in his pool F G And he sips his german beer C G And he tells all the families F G They’ve got nothing too fear Am G Even though he knows he’s selling F The finca next year C G And the tourists will come F G And they’ll drink the cheap rum C G And sing songs about the mountains F G And they’ll soak up the sun Am G And when the night falls D To our hotels they’ll run C G F G What goes around comes back again C G Tell me who’s really winning F G In the end my friend C G F G And the sound of guatemalan rain Am G Beats on our rooftops

F To the same refrain C G With muscles of rust F G He rides home on the bus C G And re a day when F G His land was more just C G Before the green money came F G Well it howled and it cussed Am G And you can’t sing a song F With your mouth full of dust C G F G What goes around comes back again C G Tell me who’s really winning F G In the end my friend C G F G And the sound of guatemalan rain Am G Beats on our rooftops F To the same refrain

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Best of Intentions G left home with the best of intentions Am now she’s fed up with the pressure and tensions C D and how no one in her life ever lived the life that they talked about G digested all of their lessons now Am she’s trying her best to forget them C D for the first time in her life left to live the life that she talked about G Am F D G C but her truck broke down Em7 just outside of town D she never planned on having all of her plans get fucked C so she starts to cry Em7 and kick the pick-up’s side D the ford sputters to life by some stroke of luck C and she just laughs a kinda nervous laugh Em7 and hopes that the D/f# G best of intention’s will be enough

6 o’clock and it’s time to rise Am she’s got work in an hour

and they make us proud Em7 we’re the chosen few just don’t drag

and bloodshot eyes C D and it’s just another day

to buy her weekend’s back

them down or ask them how they hold D the bottom line G F# Em good morning, america, how are you C quit pretending you’re D/f# G some friend of mine C this country’s all broke down, Em7 we’re fucking nowhere bound D they say that hopes and dreams

when she gets paid C she starts breaking down Em7 on the bus cross-town D she never planned on having

just aren’t gonna make the cut C but she won’t compromise, Em7 she’s planning a big surprise D “that’s fine”, she says,

all of her plans get fucked C this dream is all a lie, Em7 she’s feeling dead inside D and her self just wants to C self-destruct. She spits and bleeds

and turns now in disgust C and they just laugh a

gotta get the fuck up and get paid G head is aching and her feet are sore Am Six bucks an hour to be wal-mart’s whore C D and she’s selling her weekdays

and cries sometimes, Em7 it doesn’t seem that D/f# G best intentions’ll be enough C but they wave the flag

kinda nervous laugh Em7 D/f# ‘cause one day she’ll be back G to fuck shit up C and until that day Em7 she won’t give in not until D/f# G the best of intentions are enough

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Honesty Is Not Fucking Emo D D/c# D/B Another night I'm coming home Asus4 G Without a shred of faith in anybody G/F# Em7 Excepting myself, Asus4 A D And even there I've got my doubts D/c# We talked all night, D/B And forced our lives Asus4 And views on everybody G G/F# But nothing seems to be moving Em7 Asus4 A Anywhere, or have I just lost D The route? D/c# I'm feeling broke inside D/B Asus4 I choke a cry and hope to die Bm G A D What the hell am I doing here Bm G A D I think I wasted a whole year D D/c# D/B Another fight another black eye Asus4 G Turn your back and walk away G/F# Em7 Sleepwalk though history Asus4 A D And then you go and disappear D/c# D/B All this despite the fact you said

Asus4 G We'd never ever go astray G/F# Em7 But if Elm City burns tonight Asus4 A D I don't think I'd shed a tear D/c# I'm feeling broke inside D/B Asus4 I choke a cry and hope to die Bm G A D What the hell am I doing here Bm G A D I think I wasted a whole year A She calls me on the telephone G She's been drunk for D Three weeks straight Bm G And her voice starts to quiver D A And my faith starts to shake A And for all I fucking care G D Why don't you drink yourself to death Bm G ‘Cause after all that I've lost D A You know I'm all that I've got left A/G

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D D/c# The snowfall's white, D/B There’s not a sound Asus4 G It covers all our old hypocrisies G/F# Em7 And with borders gone

Asus4 A D I've forgot which side I'm on D/c# You talk of rights D/B Asus4 As though we truly knew democracy G G/F# But tonight I just can't buy it, Em7 Asus4 A D Tonight by ideals are long time gone D/c# I'm feeling broke inside D/B Asus4 I choke a cry and hope to die Bm G A D What the hell am I doing here Bm G A D I think I wasted a whole year A She calls me on the telephone G She's been drunk for D Three weeks straight Bm G And her voice starts to quiver D A And my faith starts to shake A And for all I fucking care G D Why don't you drink yourself to death Bm G ‘Cause after all that I've lost D A You know I'm all that I've got left A/G

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When I'm Driving You Home G1: G2: G3: G4:

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G1 G2 Step into my daddy's car G3 G4 And we'll call it our own G1 G2 Could it be that we've stolen A world of control G3 G4 And we're finally alone G1 G2 Throw that map out the window G3 G4 We can draw one that's our's G1 G2 And perhaps then we'll see What it means to be free G3 G4 From these conventional bars G1 G2 We need to act on this hunger G3 G4 Before we're full grown G1 G2 And this firery desire That burns in my head G3 G4 As I'm driving you home G1 G2 Our society's fluid now G3 G4 Here we are in our boat

G1 G2 Navigating the hollowness G3 G4 That keeps us afloat G1 G2 And my ion it's sailing G3 G4 Sweet uncharted seas G1 G2 What they said to ignore

G3 G4 And this heat leaves my bones G1 G2 My tears and my sweat Stay warm with a vision of you G3 G4 Driving me home

And I listened before G3 G4 Is bubbling with ease G1 G2 And I think we're transcending G3 G4 Every boundary I know G1 G2 White picket fences Rush by us like water G3 G4 As I’m driving you home G1 G2 But this freedom it's limited G3 G4 By the chains of our course G1 G2 And the comfort of momma's voice G3 G4 Is a powerful force G1 G2 And your house creeps up quickly now G3 G4 As forlorn as a cell G1 G2 Though our time here's been short In this young naive fort G3 G4 We sure spent it well G1 G2 As the seasons grow colder

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For The Cronic House Kidz A E We met the night before A E At a party at the Fort F#m There was cheap beer, and a bonfire, C#7 and punk rock, and lots of kids D E And Twister on the dancefloor A E It was fate when our eyes first met A E I broke out in a sweat F#m And when she kissed me on the rooftop C#7 I nearly died D And I could’ve right then E Without regret F# C# So we went exploring D A A/G# the abandoned factories F# E A E I got nervous and wanted to leave F# C# She called me gutless D A A/G# And laughed while I complained F# I turned for a minute E A A7 And she’d run away D Dm Suddenly there were flashlights A F#m and shouts from the guards

D Dm Well the cops stole my shoelaces, E A E A E But you stole my heart A E Two years ed till we met again A E Ten feet from the security fence F#m Bullets were flying C#7 and I could hardly see D E The teargas clouds were so dense A E But she spotted me through my mask A E Right before the concussion blasts F#m And we ran through the streets C#7 till there was nowhere to go D E And the riot cops were moving in fast

D Her grappling hook Dm ripped a piece of the fence A F#m And her smile tore me apart D Dm Well the cops stole my shoelaces, E A E A E But you stole my heart

F# C# They took our puppets first D A A/G# and then they took our food F# I turned for a minute E A E And they’d snatched you F# C# The tasers were brutal D A A/G# And the water cannons cold as hell F# But the memory of her E A A7 Kept me warm in my cell

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Drinking Alone Again E A E E E One more time that A E Sunday moon is rising E A B Shining dull on all we used to know A B And now that she’s forgotten me C#m A Well I need somebody’s company E Well how ‘bout it, A E You’re the only girl I see A B So I’m drinking alone again E It’s a straight tequila A One night stand E Dim the lights A B And pull the blinds down low A B And I’ll try to when E She used to love me A E Now and then I think A E It’s better to pretend

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E I thought she was A E The only one I wanted E I thought she was A B The only girl I could A B But now that I am lying C#m In your numbing arms A I don’t know when E A E I’ll leave you or even if I could A B So I’m drinking alone again E It’s a straight tequila A One night stand E Dim the lights A B And pull the blinds down low A B And I’ll try to when E She used to love me A E Now and then I think A E It’s better to pretend

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Sectarian Communist Party Blues C Went to the rally F C to protest the state And I started to burn a flag G and demonstrate C Am And the cops stood idly by, G F but the party wouldn't abide C Their thug protest marshall G C socked me in the eye F C We used to climb roofs and cranes F C loot on dumpsters and hop trains F till you bought their rag C G on the imperialist bourgeoisie C Am and you sold your youth G F the day you bought their truth C and now you're hawking ¨ G C workers weekly, issue 3 C you never seemed like F C the type to obey and take directives G from comrades everyday

C Am you used to see their bullshit clear G and the vanguard F was something we feared C G back when party meant four bands C and cheap beer F C and your stalinist revolution F C is just a fuckwit solution F another form of C G state-imposed hierarchy C Am and you sold your youth G F the day you bought their truth C and now you're hawking ¨ G C workers weekly, issue 3

F C yeah well I hate imperialists F C but you turned equally fascist F C and your papers won't do jack G to get me free C Am and you sold your youth G F the day you bought their truth C and now you're hawking ¨ G C workers weekly, issue 3

C F C "revolution is just about to come and for two dollars G you can read about the fun C Am one paper at a time G F the party ladder I will climb C till state power G C and authority are mine"

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A Song of Unapologetic Optimism E May every song that we sing A Be loud and from the heart, Be loud and from the heart E May every lie we've been told A Be spat back torn apart, Be spat back torn apart C#m B May this feeling last forever E A May this fire always burn C#m B We've sometimes had our doubts E A And sometimes woken insecure C#m B But still we carry a new world E in our hearts A C#m So bring the rain and ruins B E For I have not the slightest doubt A That we can accomodate C#m B ourselves through the worst A C#m For it’s we who built these cities B E Built these palaces once before C#m We'll build others B E when we inherit this earth

C#m B And we carry a new world E in our hearts C#m B Yeah we carry a new world E in our hearts C#m So we'll laugh tonight B and dry our eyes E A while this racket falls apart C#m B But still we carry a new world E in our hearts E May the backroads we blindly wander down A Somehow end back on track Somehow end back on track E May every last bit of our lives that they've claimed A Tonight be stolen back Tonight be stolen back C#m B May these shows go on forever E A May these highways never stop C#m B This will never be replaced, E A exploited, co-opted or bought C#m B And still we carry a new world E in our hearts

A C#m So bring the rain and ruins B E For I have not the slightest doubt A That we can accomodate C#m B ourselves through the worst A C#m For it’s we who built these cities B E Built these palaces once before C#m We have nothing to lose B E and our whole lives left to gain C#m B And we carry a new world E in our hearts C#m B Yeah we carry a new world E in our hearts C#m So we'll laugh tonight B and dry our eyes E A while this racket falls apart C#m B But still we carry a new world E Here in our hearts

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Of course a social relation Can’t be changed with a bomb, It takes more than dynamite To get folks to respond. Of course tomorrow morning If our whole system collapsed, We’d divide ourselves again On lines of gender, race, and class. But tonight I don’t care If we win a million hearts, Unless we rip them out their chests And start throwing them at cars. Because tonight it’s not enough To sympathize and wear pins, They count everyone Who doesn’t rise up as a win. Lying in bed we dream A thousand revolutionary plots, We’re fucking petrified to use The bit of power we got. It’s not to say it’s not important To build and organize, But all talk and no act Is just reaction in disguise. So some of us aren’t gonna wait Another thousand years, For the world to loose their crutches And to swallow their fear. Because complacency is guilt And response is overdue, Johnny, the movement needs your heart But it needs your body, too. Chorus: |F

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We’ll build castles in the sky From the ruins of a hell on earth, And find a rage to live inside

So full it’s about to burst. Johnny, we’ll shout our songs In the wreckage tonight And smuggle our stories out Through the gauntlets, And bring them back to life. As bombs and beating hearts

So full it’s about to burst. Johnny, we’ll shout our songs In the wreckage tonight And smuggle our stories out Through the gauntlets, And bring them back to life. As bombs and beating hearts

A little piece of each of us Inside is a cop, We try to fuck each other over Just to rise to the top. And the dog mimics the master But he only eats the scraps, We whip the ones below But get cracked on our own back. There’s a banker and a fascist Deep in all of our bones, And it comes as no surprise Because that’s all that we’ve known. But a week ago I saw a garden In a vacant lot, I saw an empty building Become a living, breathing squat, I saw partiers take over City rush-hour roads, I saw a little bit of beach Underneath the paving stone. If we can manifest These situations in the street, And subvert our daily lives that We’re walking through asleep, Maybe there’s hope for us, too, Beyond the products on sale, Beyond myths of human nature And a hundred thousand jails. Imagine tearing down the borders Our society defines, Imagine what we could become Given a little work and time. We’ll build castles in the sky From the ruins of a hell on earth, And find a rage to live inside

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Drunken Lullabies G Must it take a life for hateful eyes Em to glisten once again C Five hundred years like Gelignite Em D have blown us all to hell G What savior rests while on his cross we die, Em forgotten freedom burns C Has the Shepard led his lambs astray Em D to the bigot and the gun C G Must it take a life for hateful eyes C D to glisten once again G C Cause we find ourselves Em in the same old mess, G D G Singin drunken Lullabies G I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes Em turn a darker shade of red C And the bullet with this sniper lie Em D in their bloody gutless cell G Must we starve on crumbs from long ago

Em Through these bars of men made steel C Is it a great or little thing we fought Em D knelt the conscience blessed to kill C G Must it take a life for hateful eyes C D to glisten once again G C Cause we find ourselves Em in the same old mess, G D G Singin drunken Lullabies C D G But maybe it's the way we're taught, C D G or maybe it’s the way we fought C D But a smile never grins G C without tears to begin D G For each kiss is a cry we all lost C G Though nothing is left to gain, C but for the banshee D that stole the grave G C Cause we find ourselves Em in the same old mess, G D G Singin drunken Lullabies

G I sit in and dwell on faces past Em like memories seem to fade C No colour left but black and white, Em D and soon will all turn grey G But may these shadows rise to walk again Em with lessons truly learnt C When the blossom flowers in each our hearts Em D shall beat a new found flame C G Must it take a life for hateful eyes C D to glisten once again G C Cause we find ourselves Em in the same old mess, G D G Singin drunken Lullabies G C Cause we find ourselves Em in the same old mess, G D G Singin drunken Lullabies

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Black Friday Rule Am C G Am (3x) Am G Am I want to believe In myself once again So I dream of a man Whose hopes never end To kiss with a girl Who's as lovely as you I'd give you my heart, If you gave me the truth C And for every tear G That is lost from an eye E I'd dig me a well Am Where no man could destroy C I want to believe G In a freedom that's bold E But all I Is the freedom of old Am C Well I lost me a wife, G Am So I found me a plane G Am Flew all the way to California Am C This mess in my head G Am Is a mess getting out G Ya drink too much coffee,

Am I drink too much stout C But after a while, G When my mouth's not so dry E I'll dance up a storm, Am Sure life's looking fine C But as darkness falls, G I return to my bed E Don't ask me more questions,

C So I must remain G In my new adopted land E I'm doing the best, Am Hell I'm doin' all I can C So next time you see me, G Don't ask for my name E For I am the King

Don't fuck with my head

Am C I've been down in this world, G Am Down and almost broken Am C Like thousands of people, G Am Left standing in their shoe Am C I've been down in this world, G Am Down and almost broken Am G As thousands they grieve, Am As the Black Friday rule

Am C I've been down in this world, G Am Down and almost broken Am C Like thousands of people, G Am Left standing in their shoe Am C I've been down in this world, G Am Down and almost broken Am G As thousands they grieve, Am As the Black Friday rule

And sure long may I reign

The buildings they shake But my heart it beats still Oh mother of Jesus, I feel pretty ill I want to go home Where my feet both feel safe But there ain't no jobs In the old free state

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Death Valley Queen G D Death valley queen G C Where have you been G Em Since they crowned you in glory G D Filled your head with dreams G D But it still goes to show G C In every desert, there’s a rose G D G That's blooming for all to be seen G D I you well G C From that town you did dwell G Em With the face of an angel G D In a dump hot as hell G D When I asked for a kiss G C You kindly dismissed G D So I lead my poor heart G To the slaughter D G C D Tell me dear what did you fear G I'd do you no wrong C D Though no stranger to sin G C So death valley queen G C Go marry your king

G D Or an old maid you'll end up G For certain G D G C Off I did set on my trail of regret G Em Where I thought of you now G D In your castle and crown G D So I found me a whore G C With a face just like yours G D G After several gallons of porter G D G When I awoke, she had scarpered C I was broke G Em Laying cold in the bed G D With a whale for a head G D So death valley queen G C Go marry your king G D Or an old maid you'll end up G For certain D G Then the ball dropped C G D Why everything fell by the way D G C As your teardrops were falling D I forgot to say G D G That I have always loved you

G C G Yeah I have always loved you G D G C G Yeah I... Yeah I... C I have always loved you G D When I returned G C Downtrodden and burned G Em There were billy goats grazing G D Where once you'd be found G D So I hung out to dry G C On this limb for a lie G D Take me back for I'm cursed G On the mainland D G C D Tell me dear what did you fear G I'd do you no wrong C D Though no stranger to sin G C So death valley queen G C Go marry your king G D Or an old maid you'll end up G For certain G C I said death valley queen G C Go marry your king G D G And a-roving I'll end up for certain

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C G That night on the bridge C G With my shovel in hand C G Well he threatened to kill me Dm I’m sure he picked the wrong man

Every Dog Has It's Day C Well, I’ve drunk to drown G C G On every ocean I’ve been C G Lake Tanganyika, Dm G Where the crocodiles swim C G Halifax, Nova Scotia C G To Van Diemen’s land C G Well I drank with the Sultan Dm G Down the Suez Canal C G Cause every dog has it’s day C Like every woman, G she gets her own way C And if there’s a ship G that sails tonight F I’ll captain that, too... C G C just to be there with you

C G Cause every dog has it’s day C Like every woman, G she gets her own way C And if there’s a ship G that sails tonight F I’ll captain that, too... C G C just to be there with you

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C G Well there was old Jerry Rooney, C G Who was mad as a mule C G Spillblood Maloney Dm G Had a head like one, too

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C G Well there was mutiny in Lagos C G Aboard the mean ship Skondi C G Ten or twelve days in prison Dm Till the bastards set me free G McCloskey, you’re free C G Cause every dog has it’s day C Like every woman, G she gets her own way C And if there’s a ship

G that sails tonight F I’ll captain that, too... C G just to be there with you

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G C G Now I love the sea, C G And she wants me back C G So I leave this ol’ harbor Dm G With the wind at me back C G Goodbye mother Theresa C G I hope the kids settle down C G I must head for the Chinas Dm G Pray to God I don’t drown

C G Cause every dog has it’s day C Like every woman, G she gets her own way C And if there’s a ship G that sails tonight F I’ll captain that, too... C G C just to be there with you

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Factory Girls D Build a bridge or maybe two Together held with footsteps She outgrew Em But now she sits alone, G D Everyone's long gone She dances in a photograph When it was good to joke And have a laugh Em G D But that was yesterday, if only today G Now the walls are crawling faces D That still breathe G But before she nods her head A What's left but sleep D She hears a chorus of factory girls G Singin' in the streets C Drinkin' their coca-colas A After washing your filthy sheets

Em Choking on woodbine G D Cigarettes just kill the time G Now the walls are crawling faces D That still breathe G But before she nods her head A What's left but sleep D She hears a chorus of factory girls G Singin' aoin and all C Empty are their pockets A But their voices are filled with song D Come day go day A Wish in my heart it was Sunday G A Drinking buttermilk all the week D And whiskey on a Sunday D Come day go day A Wish in my heart it was Sunday G A Drinking buttermilk all the week D And whiskey on a Sunday

G But before she nods her head A What's left but sleep D She hears a chorus of factory girls G Singin' in the streets C Drinkin' their coca-colas A After washing your filthy sheets D She hears a chorus of factory girls G Singin' aoin and all C Empty are their pockets A But their voices are filled with song D Slayed Richard and his court of Kings He stole my heart And many other things Em But me I took his crown G D Wish he was here to steal it now

D Chasin' down the avenue After a childhood that she never knew

G Now the walls are crawling faces D That still breathe

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E A Well I worked on the railroad E A For two pence a day E A Drank down one penny, Am E The other I’d save E A I hammered and I hammered, E A For God knows how long E A Well into madness Am E With each setting sun E A I put my head down E B And I dreamt you were here E A With me by the ol’ tree Am E Where no one could care E A Far away boys, far away boys, E A Away from ya now E A I’m lyin’ with my sweetheart, Am E In her arms I’ll be found E A Then the sun belched upon me, E A You were no longer here E A Lyin’ in your place was Am E My hammer and my gear

E A So I stamped out the fire E A That kept us both warm E A The ashes were fallin’ Am E Like the snow drops of old E A We came to a mountain, E B Dynamite and she’ll blow E A A big hole in that rock Am E Like the one in my soul E A Far away boys, far away boys, E A Away from ya now E A I’m lyin’ with my sweetheart, Am E In her arms I’ll be found E A We buried four workmen; E A They dug themselves well E A From four empty coffins Am E To four early graves E A They’re only paddies, just paddies; E A Don’t dig them too deep E A You’ll need all your strength, boys, Am E And they’re replaced easily E A With the heat I was melting E B Into your sweet lips

E A Ah, your kiss takes me back, Am E Takes me back from all this E A Far away boys, far away boys, E A Away from ya now E A I’m lyin’ with my sweetheart, Am E In her arms I’ll be found E A Someone said it was Christmas E A But not a tree was in sight E A The only thing growin’ Am E Was my will to die E A Till the gaffer said “Men, E A Your work here is done” E A I said “I’ll see you in Hell, Am E On that train we died for” E A E Never again will I smell B Your sweet dream E A But a pissed stained old gutter Am E Where your lips used to be E A Far away boys, far away boys, E A Away from ya now E A I’m lyin’ with my sweetheart, Am E In her arms I’ll be found

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If I ever leave this world alive D If I ever leave this world alive, G I'll thank ya' for things you did D In my life. If I ever leave this world alive, G I'll come back down and sit beside D Your feet tonight. A Wherever I am, you'll always be. Bm G More than just a memory. D A D If I ever leave this world alive. D If I ever leave this world alive, G I'll take on all the sadness, D That I left behind. If I ever leave this world alive, G The madness that you feel D Will soon subside. A So in a word, don't shed a tear. Bm G I'll be here when it all gets weird. D A D A If I ever leave this world alive. D

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The Ol' Beggars Bush G Stuck on limbo bridge D Where below me ol' Nick grins C Then laughs through the chaos G Of it all G Gets up off his chair D Spins a jig to my despair C He can't wait to count D G The times where I went wrong G Underneath the bush D Lay a beggar out of luck C G On his lips was a taste he forgets G His hopes are filled with sand D That he watched fall through his hand C D G Every grain was a lifetime of regret D G So go and bow your head and weep C G For your world won't change D While you sleep D G Yeah, go and bow your head and weep C D For the summer that was lost, Em Now is gone C D Yeah, the summer that was lost, G Now is gone

G Fertile Mrs. Moore D Had thirteen kids but still looked good C Til' her ol' man jumped leave G on a ship G She never read a book D But by Christ she understood C D That the meanin' of life G Starts in bed D G So go and bow your head and weep C G For your world won't change D While you sleep D G Yeah, go and bow your head and weep C D For the summer that was lost, Em Now is gone C D Yeah, the summer that was lost, G Now is gone G Killer Kilbain D Beat me senseless everyday C I hope that bastard is beneath G A head of stone G Where I'll dance upon his grave D For all the madness I now crave C D While the scars that remain G Are still a curse

G Stuck on limbo bridge D Where below me ol' Nick grins C Then laughs through the chaos G Of it all G Gets up off his chair D Spins a jig to my despair C He can't wait to count D G The times where I went wrong C Yeah, he can't wait to count D G The times where I went wrong D G So go and bow your head and weep C G For your world won't change D While you sleep D G Yeah, go and bow your head and weep C D For the summer that was lost, Em Now is gone C D Yeah, the summer that was lost, G Now is gone

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Rebels of The Sacred Heart A Now I`m aimin' for heaven G D But probably wind up down in hell A Where upon this alter G D I will hang my guilt ridden head D But it`s time I`ll take G D before I begin G D Three sheets to the wind, A D Three sheets to the wind D But it`s time I`ll take G D before I begin G D Three sheets to the wind, A D Three sheets to the wind [Chorus]: G D G Rebels are we, though heavy A our hearts shall always be D A Ah, no ball or chain G D no prison shall keep D A D We`re the rebels of the sacred heart D A I said no ball or chain G D no prison shall keep D A D We`re the rebels of the sacred heart D G D Terrified of the open road G D A D Yeah, where it leads ya never know

D G D But rest assured he`ll be on you back G D Yeah, the Holy Ghost A D through his tounges in black A As the band dog howls G D and the young girl cries A The blessed virgin G D in her proud dad`s eye D G D The albatross hangin' round your neck G D Is the cross you bare A D for your sins he bleeds [Chorus] D G D Genuflect all you refugees G D who fled the land A D Now on guilt you kneel D And say a prayer G D for those left behind G D From beyond the pale A D to the Northern sky A So you saved your shillins G D and your last six pence A Cause in God`s name G D they built a barbed wire fence D G D Be glad you sailed for a better day G D But don`t forget A D there`ll be hell to pay

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The Son Never Shines on Closed Doors G C G I saw her there fade from afar G C Her hair gray charcoal G D Takes a drag from her tar. C D I kissed her a smile, G C but her blood red shot eyes C D Said "the son never shines on G closed doors." G C It's been eight long years G Since I saw G C The woman who's labored G D Since the day I was born. C D Those wrinkles now face G C To that cold dark damp place, C D Where the son never shines on G closed doors. C D She said the son never shines G on closed doors C D I open to find only G D hurricanes blow. C D Takes me away,

G C to the green fields of May, C D Because the son never shines on G closed doors. G C Death comes like a thief G in the night G C To steal while you sleep, G D the soul's flickering light. C D Well maybe it's then, G C she said I'll see you again, C D Because the son never shines on G closed doors.

D yeah we all go the C G same way home...

C D She said the son never shines G on closed doors C D I open to find only G D hurricanes blow. C D Takes me away, G C to the green fields of May, C D Because the son never shines on G closed doors. D And we all go the C G same way home,

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The Worst Day Since Yesterday D A D Well I know I miss more than hit D A D With a face that was launched to sink D A Bm G And I seldom feel the bright release D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday D A D If there's one thing I have said D Is that the dreams I once A D had now lay in bed D A Bm As the four winds blow my wits G through the door D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday G D Fallin' down to you sweet ground G Where the flowers, they bloom D Well it's there I'll be found D A D G Hurry back to me, my wild colleen D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday

D A D Though these wounds have seen no wars D A D Except for the scars I have ignored D A And this endless crutch Bm G well it's never enough D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday G Hell says hello D well it's time I should go G To pastures green D that I've yet to see D A D G Hurry back to me, my wild colleen D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday D A It's been the worst day D since yesterday

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Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon A D E You, you never looked so good A D E Sipping life down like I wish I could A But these sober tears D E are all that's left to shed D E Sandy's soul, now made of bread A D Face down beneath the rubble E lies a man A Tales of the future D E already in the past A And of himself, D E well he hasn't much to say D E But wake the gods, it's droodlin' day A E He said, I left my home D E where the dead never rose A E But the streets of gold D I've yet to find A E And at the end of the day D E all you can do is pray A E Without hope well you might as well

D E be blind, yeah be blind A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon A D E Angel, sweet angel of my youth A Where have you gone? D E You flew away too soon A This brick I built D E now builds a higher wall D E See it crumble, hear me fall D There hangs the fool, E who once had it all A E He said, I left my home D E where the dead never rose A E But the streets of gold D I've yet to find A E And at the end of the day D E all you can do is pray A E Without hope well you might as well D E be blind, yeah be blind A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon

D E And though the road has yet to rise A On these hundred years D that ed me by D E And the blood with the river flows A D Through the crimson field never sung E And no never sung A E He said, I left my home D E where the dead never rose A E But the streets of gold D I've yet to find A E And at the end of the day D E all you can do is pray A E Without hope well you might as well D E be blind, yeah be blind A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon A D E Tomorrow comes a day too soon A Ahh well you, D E you never looked so good

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The Likes of You Again Em G D A Here's to you, I sing for my daddy-o Em G D A As I lay him down to sleep Em G D A It's been so long Since I lost my daddy-o Em G D A Hope he's watching over me D

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F# You should have heard him roarin when they dragged the bugger out G A D G D A And we'll never see the likes of you again D G G A D D G Jimbo came from slummin' town, D A a cold and dreary place D G To summerland he found himself, G A D the sun shone on his face D G Met a girl called Minnie Pearl, D A swore she'd always be his girl D G Happily ever after G A D till the tide ran out again D G Pour me all your sorrows D A and I'll drink till you are dry D G I'll love you in the mornin, G A D Christ I'll love ya till you die D G I'll never leave so never grieve, D A I'll be back before you know D G But Jimbo fell into a well G A D and never rambled home Bm Carried all his troubles in an unforgivin bag A Back and forth through painted brick the colours all seemed bland Bm I've travelled all these years, he said, to only get this far F# So he crossed the street, found a seat, his home is now a bar G A D G D A And we'll never see the likes of you again G A D G D A No we'll never see the likes of you again D G G A D

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The Wanderlust G Am G Am G Am C D G G Am Well I'd love to photograph your hand G Am Then shake it for a while G Am Cause you learn so much about someone C D G A brother or a swine G The veins that plough Am beneath your path G Am With so many tales to tell G Am A picture out of focus C D G In a frame where no one cares D Calm the ocean breeze C G Quiet the raging sea D This stormy ship we sail G D Is a bottle filled with rage G Do you still walk the streets C at night? G C With the wanderlust you fight G Back to the corner where C D G we went our separate ways

G Am Well we walked upon the railroad G Am Cause the train no longer ran

G Back to the corner C D Em where we went our separate ways

G Where we caught a glimpse Am of all we missed C D G From the stars that filled our eyes G Am With a dollar in your only coat G Am And a fireball in your hand G Am You set your sails for better days C D G Down in South Australia

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G Do you still walk the streets C at night? G C With the wanderlust you fight G Back to the corner where C D G we went our separate ways G D So raise a cheer G C to those forgotten years

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Whistles The Wind F C Whistles the wind F C Blowin' my way F C G Sweepin' me back, back here to stay F C Can winners be losers? F C Runnin' on the same track F C While some head for glory, G others we crash C Well it breaks my heart F C to see you this way F C G The beauty in life where's it gone C And somebody told me F C you were doin' okay F C G But somehow I guess they were wrong F C My isolation F C Now there's a sobering thought F C G A minute alone, a lifetime too long F C See the face in this mirror F C So pale it could crack F C Desperately wantin' G the color it lacks

C Well it breaks my heart F C to see you this way F C G The beauty in life where's it gone C And somebody told me F C you were doin' okay F C G But somehow I guess they were wrong F So you drank with the lost souls C For too many years F Tied to their ankles C now crippled with fear F Never been righteous Am though seldom were wrong G Life's only life with you in this song Am C F G 2x F C Now there's an ocean between F C Where I am and where I want to be F C So you prayers in doubt G Doubt not for me

C Well it breaks my heart F C to see you this way

F C The beauty in life where's it C And somebody told me F C you were doin' okay F C But somehow I guess they were C Well it breaks my heart F C to see you this way F C The beauty in life where's it C And somebody told me F C you were doin' okay F C But somehow I guess they were F Whistles F Whistles F Whistles F Whistles

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F Though you'll find your way out C But there's no goin' now F Every woman and child C Drags you down for the dive F It's not safe being free Am Can't give back what you feel G He said you'll always be in heaven C with me

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Within a Mile Of Home D G Dust falls on the empty halls A of my old school D Where the memories fade G A like the casualty, a forgotten fool D G Now wide-eyed has become A the blind of spoken rule Bm G As equal only deep is now the word D The lesson's not the answer A you once heard D "Don't turn your back on me, A G don't ever let me down" D A She said, "I picked you up each time G before you hit the ground D A Your selfish face is now erased G when someone mentions you Bm And the darkness that you left G is overstepped aside D Will disappear in clouds, A the sun arrives D G Bm G A Within a mile of home

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Bm G So sing to me, sing me a song, A a song from yesterday Bm And when the laughter turned G these tears before the promises, A then they'll slip away Bm Don't turn your back on me, G don't turn your back on me, A don't ever let me down Bm Don't turn your back on me, G don't turn your back on me, A don't ever let me down D We are within a mile, G We are within a mile, A within a mile of home

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F If she wants to dance and drink all night Bb then there’s no one that can stop her. Dm She’s going until the house lights Bb come up or her stomach

gave you any other options. Dm Bb They don’t know nothing about redemption F Bb They don’t know nothing about recovery. C Some people just aint the type Bb for marriage and family.

spills onto the floor. F This night is going to end Bb when we’re damn well ready

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that her daughter's going to grow up Bb to be a junkie Dm No mother ever dreams that her daughter's Bb gonna grow up to sleep alone.] x2 F She’s out of step with the style, she Bb don’t know where the action's happening Dm You know the downtown club scene Bb ain't nothing like it used to be. F You reach a point where there’s

Bb just as loud as it was in 1983. C There ain't no Johnny coming home Bb to share a bed with her and she doesn’t care. [

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that her daughter's going to grow up Bb to be a junkie Dm No mother ever dreams that her daughter's Bb gonna grow up to sleep alone.] x2 F No mother ever dreams that her daughter's going to grow up Bb to be a junkie Dm C If she had to live it all over again Bb you know she wouldn’t change anything F for the world.

not a lie in the world Bb that you could use to make the boys believe you're still in you twenties. Dm They keep getting younger Bb don't they baby. Dm She’s not waiting for someone to come Bb over and ask for the privledge. F She can still hear that Rebel Yell

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Am Evelyn sits by the elevator doors C It's been 37 years since James died Am on St. Patrick's day in 1964 G She could not hold it against him Am There were times there was nothing she could do C but lie in bed all day Am Beside a picture of them together, G a picture of better days F And just like James, I’ll be drinking Irish tonight G And the memory of his last work week will be gone forever F Am G Evelyn I’m not coming home tonight F If we're never together, Am if I'm never back again G Well I swear to god that I'll love you forever

F Am G Evelyn I’m not coming home tonight Am In all the years that went by C she said she'd always love him G And from the day that he died F she never loved again

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Untitled B One night we lay beside each other, So close to a sweat With two fans circling overhead, We sleep on borrowed time C#m And the traffic lights Direct empty roads, The stars can't break the city sky. E But they still try despite What they know is already true B And tomorrow we'll take aim Just like a storm waiting for a calm C#m I can feel everything coming, In my chest my heart's Already pounding E My head's on far off highways, Sixteen years old, On a road that never ends F# Might drive into something That looks like a sunset It lasts forever, And I never look back B From Hoboken to L.A. C#m From Portland to Gainesville E From the Great Plains to Niagara F# From Route 66 Straight to California B Electric lights carry the night C#m We move in 4/4 time

E On feet, on wheels, and in the sky F# Yes, we're going cause We'd die if we stayed here B And those dying dreams Will carry what's good C#m And real and pure E F# And the rest can burn in hell B And for the four year old girl Found dead in a dumpster, Shot by her mother, her eulogy Is the sound of construction Through head to head traffic, Today is just another day. C#m And me and my friends are just Growing into the drunks And the liars that We've always hated. E Every shortcoming has trapped us, Every mistake is now Our own infinite failure. B So we steal every chance we get, Every advantage is taken When no one’s looking. C#m Well hidden behind closed doors And we won't stop until We are people that we've Decided we should be E I wanna be a shot heard Around the world, Fuckin' unstoppable. This distance is not Something we'll regret.

F# Between here and now and then forever And days after that Till the very end. B From Hoboken to L.A. C#m From Portland to Gainesville E From the Great Plains to Niagara F# From Route 66 Straight to California B Electric lights carry the night C#m We move in 4/4 time E On feet, on wheels, and in the sky F# Yes, we're going cause We'd die if we stayed here B And those dying dreams Will carry what's good C#m And real and pure E F# And the rest can burn in hell E F# And the rest can burn in hell

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Walking is Still Honest D Dear mother, this is just survival, Can't promise your Bm G children everything, Bm But you would lie so they can A sleep tonight D Defeat tasted nothing like you said Still twenty-two days left Bm A till the end of the world. Bm A Em My legacy was making you a man G For a justice I could not change. Em This is one voice not to forget; G "Fight every fight like you can win; Em An iron fisted champion, G D An iron willed fuck up." G Can anybody tell me D why God won't speak to me? A Why Jesus never called on me Bm A to part the fucking seas? G D Why death is easier than living? A You can be almost anything Bm A When you're on your fucking knees.

G D A Not today, not my son, not my family, Bm A Not while walking is still honest, G A D And you haven't given up on me. D Dear shithead, this isn't happening; Bm A The sky is really falling, Bm A The paint's all made of lead, D There's asbestos in the walls,

Bm A When you're on your fucking knees. G D A Not today, not my son, not my family, Bm A Not while walking is still honest, G A D And you haven't given up on me.

Hell's come over to rip off the doors Bm A To your privileged heaven. Bm A Em Do you want to love and feel it? G You can look but you can't taste it. You can reach, Em but you'll never have it. G We are untouchable; D Untouchable is something to be. G Can anybody tell me D why God won't speak to me? A Why Jesus never called on me Bm A to part the fucking seas? G D Why death is easier than living? A You can be almost anything

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Baby, I'm an Anarchist C Through the best of times, Am through the worst of times F G through Nixon and through Bush C Do you '36? We went our Am F seperate ways, you fought for Stalin G I fought for freedom. You believe in C Am authority, I believe in myself F I'm a molotov coctail, G you're the dom perignon. C baby whats that Am confused look in your eyes what I'm F G trying to say is that F I'll burn down buildings while you G C G Am G sit on a shelf inside of them F you call the cops on the looters G and pie throwers C They call it class war G Am G C I call it co-conspirators Em F 'Cause baby I'm an anarchist C G you're a spineless liberal

Em we marched together F for the eight hour days C and held hands on the streets G of seattle Em but when it came time to throw bricks F through that starbucks window G G G C you left me all alone, all alone C You watched in awe Am at the red white and blue F G on the fourth of july C Am while those fireworks were exploding F I was BURNING THAT FUCKER AND WAVING MY BLACK FLAG HIGH, C Am F eating the peanuts that the parties G have tossed you C Am In the backseat of your fathers new F ford, you believe in the ballot G you believe in reform, C you have faith in the elephant Am and jackass F and to you solidarity's G a four letter word

F we're all hypocrites G but you're a patriot C G Am G you thought I was only joking F when I was screaming "kill whitey"! G at the top of my lungs C G at the cops in their cars Am G and the men in their suits F G no I won't take your hand C and marry the state Em F 'Cause baby I'm an anarchist C G you're a spineless liberal Em we marched together F for the eight hour days C and held hands on the streets G of seattle Em but when it came time to throw bricks F through that starbucks window G G G C you left me all alone, all alone

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Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious F#m F#m We're all presidents, We're all congressmen, D We're all cops In waiting. A We're the workers of the world. E There is the elite and the dispossessed F#m And it's only about survival, D Who has skill to play the game A For all it's worth, Reaching out for a scary E kind of perfection.

F#m D United, we'll make them F#m Our history, E Or how we like to be told... D How we like to be told A And we rock, (Clap!) Because it's us against them. We found our own reasons to sing, And it's so much less confusing When lines are drawn like that, F#m When people are either consumers

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hanging on the fringes A Of the cogs in the system. E It's just about knowing where everyone stands. All of a sudden,

Let's try not to any names. E We'll do it for our country,

'Cause they found something E to die for. F#m E D Start taking back what they stole; F#m Sure beats every other option,

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We Did It All For Don A E Please tell me why we couldn't stay A D Don't let this feeling ever go away A Let this memory E forever be inside of me A D Through every hour of every day A It's with the company E of these friends D That we drove on through the night A E We are carried by the wheels D of armageddon F#m E D We're gonna force ourselves to live Thankful it's hurt more F#m than we've ever felt E D It's just our means to an end [Chorus]: A E Please tell me why we couldn't stay A D Don't let this feeling ever go away A Let this memory E forever be inside of me A D Through every hour of every day

A It's with the company E of these friends D That we drove on through the night A E We are carried by the wheels D of armageddon F#m And honestly we were armed E with our best intentions D Maybe those intentions alone F#m are just enough to get us E D anywhere but here E F#m In the middle of america D Six cylinders will take us further E F#m D than any president The same promises E F#m D that we forgot the last time E There's no difference between staying F#m D and a bullet in the head A So fucking tell me why, we couldn’t E Stay... [CHORUS] F#m Maybe it's gonna come from the radio E Or the next 8 hour day

D Driving to the next town A collect call home F#m to your best friend E D We are the company we keep E F#m We could live off of dumpsters D if we have to E Sell our blood by the pint F#m D to make rent This kind of dignity E F#m D doesn't come easy E F#m D But you'll never find it for sale A E And that’s why we couldn't stay A But never let that feeling D ever go away A E Kept the memory, inside of us Through every hour A D Through every day until we die A It's with the company E of these friends D That we drove on through the night A E D Behind the wheel of Armageddon

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Eight Full Hours of Sleep C Am7 F

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C Am7 When you sleep, F No one is homeless. C Am7 When you sleep, F You can't feel the hunger. F When you sleep, C G No one is lonely in a dream. Without classes, F Without nations... C Am7 When you sleep, F She's standing there with open arms, C Am F And one night could last forever, And if you asked her, C G She'd never let go... F And you'd stay forever... F And the sun's always rising Am7 G In the sky somewhere, F And if young hearts should explode

C G Let the new night bring you peace F And the promise of tomorrow, C Am7 Where we can wake F To a new beginning. C Am7 F Tomorrow I'll all but

they've been told... C G To live through one night like this, F I would trade it for the silence...

have lost their faces; My friends and family, C G Memories of all we had F And the times we should have lived, C Am7 And tomorrow F America just might fall apart. C Am7 Tomorrow, tell me, F Where will you wake up? Beyond title, C beyond these careers and laws, G Something more F than borders on a map...

From all the lies

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Joy D All is quiet, except for this song. G So maybe while I'm not together I can feel like I'm not alone. D And somewhere off in the distance, G rapidly advancing, is an onslaught of sorts. A Young sirens wail

G I shrug off the answer, continue to get high A in this terror of no explanation. G I am looking for a faith. My panic is an only reason. D And there's a joy, a joy in all I can see. G D A D A joy, in every possibility.

in a skewed sense of glory. G And the lions in their cages roar in the memory of flight. D And there's a joy, a joy in all I can see. G D G A joy, in every possibility. D And all around me is a great, great feeling. G American rockets red-glare in a most disgusting triumph. D And in ing I am asked "Do you believe in a God?",

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A Lost the confidence to write a song E So I found three simple chords And held them together with my weak voice D On an out of tune guitar A My father gave to me E And may Elvis turn in his grave D And Les Paul curse my dirty, A calloused fingers E And may the likes of this song never make one fucking dollar D Leave it for a demo tape A To be played until it's broken E And ed only for what it was D That we gave 'em hell A That we gave 'em hell E That we gave 'em hell

A To my friends and enemies E who could have been anything D Titans and heroes who found survival in cause and effect A Behind counters Behind windows E Striving just to be people D With bitter ideals of justice E Do we only need to keep working D A because it pays rent? E Sleeping under plastic stars

E It's more than actions you know are safe to make D A It's more than money could ever buy E Are we living to work and die in American cities? D And working to live and die A in American cities, E D A E And dying for what we worked.

glued to the ceiling D A Muscles burning alcohol and nicotine E Every morning D But we gave 'em hell A But we gave 'em hell E But we gave 'em hell A There's a height beyond skyscrapers E D There's a distance beyond the freeway A E More than pictures in a magazine More than tragedy D in a rock and roll song

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We Laugh At Danger (And Break All the Rules) G It was a birthday gift C of a Mexican Telecaster G And from this day on I will play along C to all my young pioneers records G And there will be a poetry spoken C silently between me and the stereo G I'll work mornings C and you can work through the night G C Mary, there is no hope for us D If this GM van don't make it across the state line C we might as well lay down and die G Because if Florida takes us C we're taking everyone down with us D Where we're coming from (yeah) C will be the death of us G And I cannot help but hold on C to a handful of times

when what was spoken G was a revolution in itself, and what we were doing C was the only thing that mattered Em D And how good it felt C to kill the memory of nights spent Em holding your shirt for the smell D I heard you used to cry C when you made love to him but this band will play on Em Because all we can do D Is what we've always done. C And on and on on and on on and Em D C On on and on on and on on G C Mary, there is no hope for us D If this GM van don't make it across the state line C we might as well lay down and die G Because if Florida takes us C we're taking everyone down with us D Where we're coming from (yeah) C will be the death of us

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Reinventing Axl Rose E We want a band G# that plays loud and hard every night. That doesn't care how many people A are counted at the door That would travel one million miles E and ask for nothing but plate of food and a place to rest. E They'd strike chords that cut like a knife. G# It would mean so much more than a t-shirt or a ticket stub, they would stop nothing short A of a massacre.

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E could find what really holds us back. F# A Let's make everybody sing E that they are the beginning and ending of everything. F# That we are all stronger A than everything they taught us E that we should fear.

Two three four! E Just give me a scene where the music is free, G# and the beer is not the life of the party. A There's no need to shittalk

Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place E else in the world and this was where they always belonged. F# We would dance like A no one was watching E with one fist in the air.

or impress cause honesty and emotion E are not looked down upon. And every promise that's made G# and bragged is meant if not kept. We'd do it all because we have to A not because we know why. Beyond a gender race and class we

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Tonight We're Gonna Give it 35% E F#m A B E F#m We drank bottled water together A And talked business B I think I played the right moves E F#m You were looking over my shoulder A As I went through the motions B Of another night C#m B And it was alright, A E Because I thought I knew C#m Who everybody was B F#m Just by looking at them E F#m E My heart is anywhere but here And how tired I was F#m From the past couple weeks From the past couple years, A B Well it hit me all at once E On a balcony overlooking nothing F#m With stars falling all around A B I called just to say good-night C#m B A E And you hadn't done anything wrong

C#m B F#m Really, really, it's me not you E F#m I can't believe how naive I was To think things could ever E Be so simple E F#m A B E And can you live with what you know F#mn About yourself when your all alone A Behind closed doors The things we never said B But we always knew were right there E And it’s got me on my knees F#m In a bathroom, praying to a god I don't even believe in A B But dear jesus, are you listening? C#m B If this is the one chance A E That really matters C#m B F#m don't let me fuck this up E C#m B A E C#m B F#m E If you had told me about all this F#m when I was fifteen E I never would have believed it.

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F C singing Billy is in the bowl C Dm They took you up to midnight mass C Dm and left you in the lurch C Dm So you dropped a button in the plate Am and spewed up in the church F Bb Now you'll sing a song of liberty C F for blacks and paks and jocks And they'll take you from Bb this dump you're in C F and stick you in a box F C Then they'll take you to Cloughprior Bb C and shove you in the ground Bb But you'll stick your head back out and shout C we'll have another round F At the graveside of Cuchulainn Bb F we'll kneel around and pray Bb F And God is in his heaven, C F and Billy's down by the bay F

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Body of an American C F The cadillac stood by the house C G and the Yanks they were within C And the tinker boys F they hissed advice C G 'Hot wire her with a pin' C F We turned and shook as we had a look C G in the room where the dead man lay C F C So big Jim Dwyer made his last trip F C To the shores where his fathers laid C Fifteen minutes later we had F C our first taste of whiskey C There was uncles giving lectures F G on ancient Irish history F The men all started telling jokes C G and the women they got frisky C At five o' clock in the evening F G every bastard there was pisskey C G Fare thee well going away C there's nothing left to say

F Farewell to New York City boys C G to Boston and P A F He took them out with a well-aimed clout C G he was often heard to say C F G C I'm a free born man of the U.S.A. C He fought the champ in Pittsburgh F C and he slashed him to the ground C He took on Tiny tartanella F G and it only went one round F He never had no time for red, C G for drink, or dice or whores C And he never threw a fight when the fight was right F G So they sent him to the war C G Fare thee well going away C there's nothing left to say F With a slainte Joe and Erin go C G my love's in Amerikay F The calling of the rosary C G Spanish wine from far away

C F G C I'm a free born man of the U.S.A. C This morning on the harbour F C when I said goodbye to you C I how I swore that I'd F G come back to you one day F And as the sunset came to meet C G the evening on the hill C I told you I'd always love you, F G I always did, I always will C G Fare thee well going away C there's nothing left to say F 'cept to say adieu To your eyes as blue C G As the water in the bay F And to big Jim Dwyer the man of wire C G who was often heard to say C F G C I'm a free born man of the U.S.A. C F G C A free born man of the U.S.A. C F G C A free born man of the U.S.A.

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The Auld Triangle G A hungry feeling G Came o'er me stealing C Em And the mice were squeeling Am C In my prison cell G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal G Oh! To start the morning G The warden bawling C Em "Get up out of bed, you! Am C And Clean out your cell!" G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal G Oh! the screw was peeping G And the loike was sleeping C Em As he lay weeping Am C For his girl Sal

G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal G On a fine Spring evening G The loike lay dreaming C Em And the sea-gulls were wheeling Am C High above the wall G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal G Oh! the wind was sighing G And the day was dying C Em As the loike lay crying Am C In his prison cell G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal G In the women's prison G There are seventy women

C Em And I wish it was with them Am C That I did dwell G And that auld triangle G Went jingle-jangle C Em All along the banks D G Of the Royal Canal

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The Broad Majestic Shannon D The last time I saw you G D Was down at the Greeks D There was whiskey on Sunday G Bm And tears on our cheeks D You sang me a song G As pure as the breeze D G A On a road leading up Glenaveigh D I sat for a while G D At the cross at Finnoe D Where young lovers would meet G Bm When the flowers were in bloom D Heard the men coming home G From the fair at Shinrone D G Their hearts in Tipperary A D Wherever they go D G A Take my hand, and dry your tears babe D G A Take my hand, forget your fears babe D There's no pain, G A There's no more sorrow D G They're all gone,

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Dirty Old Town G I met my love, by the gas works wall C G Dreamed a dream, by the old canal I kissed my girl, by the factory wall D Em Dirty old town, dirty old town G Clouds are drifting across the moon C G Cats are prowling on their beats Springs a girl On the streets at night D Em Dirty old town, dirty old town G Heard a siren from the dock C G saw a train cut the night on fire Smelled the breeze on the smokey wind D Em Dirty old town, dirty old town G I'm going to make me a big sharp axe C G Shining steel tempered in the fire I'll chop you down Like an old dead tree D Em dirty old town, dirty old town G I met my love, by the gas works wall C G Dreamed a dream, by the old canal

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G If I should fall from grace with god C G Where no doctor can relieve me G If I'm buried 'neath the sod C Em but the angels won't receive me G Em C Let me go boys let me go boys G C G Let me go down in the mud D G where the rivers all run dry G C G G D G G C G G D G G This land was always ours C G 'twas the proud land of our fathers G It belongs to us and them C Em not to any of the others G Em C Let them go boys let them go boys

G Bury me at sea C G Where no murdered ghost can haunt me G If I rock upon the waves C Em No corpse can lie upon me G It's coming up three boys Em C keeps coming up three boys G C G Let them go down in the mud D G Where the rivers all run dry G C G G D G G C G G D G G If I should fall from grace with god C G Where no doctor can relieve me G If you stick me in the side C Em still the angels won't receive me G Em C Let me go boys let me go boys G C G Let me go down in the mud D G where the rivers all run dry G

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G/D D G/D Asus4/E D G/D D It was Christmas Eve babe, G In the drunktank D An old man said to me, G/A won't see another one A D And then he sang a song G The Rare Old Mountain Dew D And I turned my face away G Asus4/E D G/A And dreamed about you D Got on a lucky one G Came in eighteen to one D I've got a feeling G/A A This year's for me and you D G So happy Christmas, I love you baby D I can see a better time G Asus4/E D When all our dreams come true G/D D G/D Asus4, D They've got cars A Big as bars

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D In that bed D You scum bag, you maggot A You cheap lousy faggot D G Happy Christmas your arse A D I pray God it’s our last G Bm A The boys of the NYPD choir's D Bm Still singing 'Galway Bay' D G And the bells were ringing A D Out for Christmas day D

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The Old Main Drag D G When I first came to London A D I was only sixteen G A With a fiver in my pocket D A and my ole dancing bag G A I went down to the dilly D A to check out the scene D G And I soon ended up upon A D the old main drag D G There the he-males and the she-males A D paraded in style G A And the old man with the money D A would flash you a smile G A In the dark of an alley D A you'd work for a fiver D G For a swift one off the wrist A D down on the old main drag D G In the cold winter nights A D the old town it was chill G A But there were boys in the cafes

D A who'd give you cheap pills G A If you didn't have the money D A you'd cajole or you'd beg D G There was always lots of tuinol A D on the old main drag D G One evening as I was lying A D down by Leicester Square G A I was picked up by the coppers D A and kicked in the balls G Between the metal doors A D at Vine Street I was beaten A and mauled D G And they ruined my good looks A D for the old main drag

A D the old main drag D G And now I'm lying here A D I've had too much booze G A I've been spat on and shat on D A and raped and abused G A I know that I am dying D A and I wish I could beg D G For some money to take me from A the old main drag

D G In the tube station the old ones A D who were on the way out G A Would dribble and vomit D A and grovel and shout G A And the coppers would come along D A and push them about D G And I wished I could escape from

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Sally MacLennane D Well Jimmy played harmonica G D In the pub where I was born D He played it from the night-time G A to the peaceful early morn’ G He soothed souls of psychos D A and the men who had the horn D G and they all looked very happy A D in the morning D Now Jimmy didn't like his place G D In this world of ours D Where the elephant man Broke strong men's necks G A When he'd had too many powers G So sad to see the grieving D A Of the people he was leaving D G And he took the road from nowhere A D In the morning [Chorus]: D G We walked him to the station D in the rain

D G We kissed him as we put him A on the train G D And we sang him a song G of times long gone D though we knew that A D A we'd be seeing him again D Sad to say I must be on my way G D so buy me beer and whiskey A 'cause I'm going far away D I'd like to think I'll be returning when I can G D to the greatest little boozer A D and to Sally McLennane D The years ed by the times had changed G D I grew to be a man D I learned to love the virtues G A of sweet Sally McLennane G I took the jeers and drank the beers D A and I crawled back home at dawn D G A D And ended up a barman in the morning

D I played the pump and took the hump G D and watered whiskey down D I talked of whores and horses G A to the men who drank the brown G I heard them say that D A Jimmy's making money far away D G Some people left for heaven A D Without warning [CHORUS] D When Jimmy came back home G D he was surprised that they were gone D He asked me all the details G A of the train that they went on G Some people they are scared to croak D A but Jimmy drank until he choked D G And took the road for heaven A D In the morning [CHORUS]

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The Irish Rover G On the Fourth of July, C eighteen hundred and six G We set sail from the sweet D cove of Cork G We were sailing away C with a cargo of bricks G D G For the Grand City Hall in New York G 'Twas an elegant craft, D Rigged fore and aft G C And oh, how the wild wind drove her G She could stand a great blast, Em C She had twenty seven masts G D G And they called her The Irish Rover G We had one million bags C of the best Sligo rags G D We had two million barrels of stone G We had three million sides C of old blind horses hides G D G We had four million barrels of bone G We had five million hogs,

D And six million dogs G D Seven million barrels of porter G We had eight million bails Em C of old nanny-goats' tails G D G In the hold of the Irish Rover G There was awl Mickey Coote C who played hard on his flute G D When the ladies lined up for a set G He was tootin' with skill C for each sparkling quadrille G Though the dancers D G were fluther'd and bet G With his smart witty talk D he was cock of the walk G And he rolled the dames D under and over G They all knew at a glance Em C when he took up his stance G D G That he sailed in The Irish Rover G There was Barney McGee C from the banks of the Lee G D There was Hogan from County Tyrone

G There was Johnny McGurk C who was scared stiff of work G D And a chap from Westmeath G called Malone G There was Slugger O'Toole, D drunk as a rule G D Fighting Bill Treacy from Dover G And your man, Mick MacCann Em C from the banks of the Bann G D G Was the skipper of the Irish Rover G We had sailed seven years C when the measles broke out G D And our ship lost its way in the fog G And that whale of a crew C was reduced down to two G D G Just myself and the Captain's old dog G Then the ship struck a rock, D oh Lord! what a shock G D The bulk it was flipped right over G Turned nine times around, Em C And the poor old dog was drowned G D G I’m the last of the The Irish Rover

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Publikens Klagolåt A E A Kan hon inte ta en visa D A utan manshat och misär? A E A Har hon aldrig varit lycklig, D E har hon aldrig varit kär? F#m E Kan hon ta nåt utan könsord, D A utan plumpa rim på sex? F#m C#m Kan hon sluta att offentligt D E ta ut hämnd på sina ex? A E A Vi kom hit för att ha roligt, D A det är därför vi är här! F#m C#m Kan hon inte ta en visa D A utan manshat och misär? A E A Den där tjejen borde tänka D A lite mer på sin publik A E A Om hon ens vill ha applåder D E bör hon ändra sin taktik F#m E eller spela för gelikar D A på nån kvinnosakskongress F#m C#m där publiken speglar muttan D E och pratar mens och PMS A E A Den där tjejen är nog mogen D A för lite konstruktiv kritik F#m C#m ja hon borde faktiskt tänka D A lite mer på sin publik

A E A Den där tjejen borde prova D A på att byta perspektiv A E A Kanske utgå från nåt annat D E än sitt eget sketna liv? F#m E Skildra verklighet på riktigt, D A som Timbuktu och Ulf Lundell F#m C#m Man blir utpekad och ledsen D E som man och heterosexuell A E A Och förresten, vad betyder D A det där heteronormativ? F#m C#m Den där tjejen borde prova D A på att byta perspektiv

A E A Hon är ingen Stefan Sundström, D A men rätt bra för att va tjej A E A Ingen fullfjädrad artist, D E men originell, i och för sig F#m E Fast hon borde inte vara D A fullt så kritisk emot män F#m C#m om hon vill bli inkvoterad D E i vårt visprogram igen A E A För det låga gage vi erbjöd D A är hon ändå helt okej F#m C#m Hon är ingen Stefan Sundström, D A men ganska bra för att va tjej

A E A Kan hon inte sluta tjata, D A hon är ensidig och trist! A E A Om hon får en riktig karl D E ska allt nog ordna sig tillsist F#m E Om hon slutade att tycka att D A alla män är onda djur F#m C#m slapp hon kanske vara ensam, D E bitter, grinig, arg och sur A E A Man kan faktiskt vara snygg D A och attraktiv som feminist F#m C#m Kan hon inte sluta tjata, D A hon är ensidig och trist!

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Strategivisa för Kärlekskritiker Am Säg, har du torskat dit Dm och blivit dumpad någon gång? F Oskyldigt dömd förutan E minsta chans till nåd? Am Är din hårda väg tillbaka Dm tung och obarmhärtigt lång? F Är ditt brustna hjärta G torftigt lagat med nål och tråd? Dm Känner du igen dig så lyss upp till denna sång och gör det noga E F E för här kommer jag med råd! Am All min kunskap komprimerad Dm till en kort koncis lektion: Dm Am Hjärtat är bara en muskel, E Am kärlek blott en konstruktion Am Jag brukar inte skryta Dm om min relationsteknik F men jag har utvecklat E en hållbar strategi.

Am Glöm bort allting du lärt dig Dm om förhållandeetik F ifall lycklig, stolt och stark G du vill förbli Dm Var ständigt vaksam, bind dig aldrig vid nån specifik och ha en plan för effektiv E F E och snabb sorti Am Hellre kasta sig av tåget Dm än bli kvar vid slutstation Dm Am Hjärtat är bara en muskel, E Am kärlek blott en konstruktion Am Om ditt skötes våta träsk Dm har blivit snustorr ökenmark F och du glömt bort E hur man stavar till potens Am Minns att tvåsam är förgänglig, Dm minns att ensam står du stark F Brända barn minns väl G hur heta kroppar bränns Dm Minns att sex kan va

och minns att inget botar E F E kärleksabstinens Am Du blir tillfredsställd, Dm men sällan sviken av masturbation Dm Am Hjärtat är bara en muskel, E Am kärlek blott en konstruktion Am Du som går från famn till famn Dm och glömt att själv är bäste dräng F E och låter kärlekslivet löpa fritt amok Am eller ligger där och Dm snyftar mol allena i din säng F och sörjer mjölk som du spillt ut G är inte klok! Dm Hellre fly än illa fäkta, klipp din kärleksnavelsträng och lämna spelet E F E innan allting gått på tok! Am Stick hål på illusionen, Dm störta Amor från sin tron Dm Am Hjärtat är bara en muskel, E Am kärlek blott en konstruktion

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I don't sleep well Capo on 1st C G Am Bam bam bam... x 2 C And suddenly, G Am I don’t feel fat anymore C G I don’t count my blackheads Am as a hobby F G C F I don’t count the marks on the wall Am C G C And I don’t sleep well at all C G Am There is someone else right beside me C G Am He kept every secret I told F G He giggled his way C F Am straight through fall C G C And I don’t sleep well at all C G Am Bam bam bam x 3 C G F Am F Am Bam bam bam

Am G Am F I have been to fortune tellers C G He knows when I’m happy Am and nods when I’m sad C And he puts out G Am when I come home drunk F G C F And suddenly I stand real tall C G C But I don’t sleep well at all

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Am G Am F I have seen too many movies Am G Am F I have read too many books Am G I’m the kind that sees sun Am F and brings an umbrella

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Loneliness Is Better When You're Not Alone C G Am F x4 C G What would you say if I asked of you Am F out of loneliness, out of loneliness C G What would you say if I asked of you Am F out of loneliness, out of loneliness C G Am F Could I be with you C G Am F Can I be with you

F G It’s warm inside the night club C Am Your face is lit up by a disco light F G I don’t want to go home alone, C not tonight F G C I have a picture of a man Am who used to sit in that chair F G I will go anywhere F G Just as long as I’m with someone F And you will do, G C just take me home for tea

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Saturday Nights Bm F# G F# Bm F# G F# Bm F# Somebody ordered G F# too many drinks last night Bm F# Somebody reckoned dancing G F# on the bar's all right Bm F# Somebody woke up G F# next to someone else, thinking Bm A Some people thought about G F# killing off themselves Bm A Oh, Lord! Forgive me them G F# Saturday nights Bm A They'll make you do things you'll G F# regret for the rest of your life Bm A G And Lord! Forbid them glimmering F# Saturday lights Bm A G And tell me I am not me F# on Saturday nights Bm F# G F# Bm F# G F# Bm F# Who was that girl who shouted G F# "This one's on me!"

Bm F# Who was that girl who G F# dropped her drink on a celebrity Bm F# Who was that girl who G F# fell asleep under a tree, Bm A singing who was that girl, G F# I know for sure it wasn't me Bm A Oh, Lord! Forgive me them G F# Saturday nights Bm A They'll make you do things you'll G F# regret for the rest of your life Bm A G And Lord! Forbid them glimmering F# Saturday lights Bm A G And tell me I am not me F# on Saturday nights

Bm A Somebody's evil twin said: G F# well, let's make it two Bm A Oh, Lord! Forgive me them G F# Saturday nights Bm A They'll make you do things you'll G F# regret for the rest of your life Bm A G And Lord! Forbid them glimmering F# Saturday lights Bm A G And tell me I am not me F# on Saturday nights Bm F# G F# Bm F# G F#

Bm F# G F# Bm F# G F# Bm F# Somebody promised she would G F# stay in the next week Bm F# G Somebody dropped out of the house F# just to take a peak and Bm F# Somebody reckoned well G F# just one drink that'll do

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Middleclass C G You and me, let's steal a car, Am F let's rob a bank, let's travel far. C Let's wear these shirts G Am my grandpa used to wear. F G C And then I'll be happy, I swear C I'll point the gun, G Am you'll keep the engine running, F I'll be running to you. G You'll be saying: darling, Am our haircuts aside, F G C we are just like Bonnie and Clyde. F Em I'll probably feel bad for not G Am taking the train but you'll say F Em G it's in the country and it's raining.

F And I'll slowly put you out C of your Fred Segal and F C high on the fact that we're illegal F we'll make sweet loving G Am sweeter like we do. F G I'll say: Baby, you're a criminal. C And you'll say: So are you. C G You and me, let's steal a car, Am F but first before we go that far: C What's your name? G Don't look so scared! Am F Don't tell me you weren't thinking G C exactly the same. C

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I Wonder Who Is Like This One Capo on 5th

C F C People are like songs, it's true. F Some seem dull at first, C but then they grow on you. Me, I'm like F C "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Annoying at times F C but I'll make you wanna dance. F G But you are the only one I've met Am who's "God Only Knows". F I liked you the first time I met you G C and it grows and grows and grows. F C People are like songs, I swear. F Some found you as a child C and still they're always there. F C A boy I knew was "Anarchy in the UK". Burned out too quickly, F C but in such a beautiful way. F G And you are the only one I've met Am who's "God Only Knows". F Such a well thought out plan, G C but with harmonies that flow

F People are like songs, C I've been told. Some claim your ears F C but you never hear a story unfold. Old "Radio Ga Ga" F C or your high-school friends. Reminds you of things F C when you were someone else. F And "God Only Knows" and you, G paired off as two F as the turn of the seasons G you come and go. F I can never claim G control of either of you, F you're too sweet to be G just mine alone. F And I try to stay humble G over the fact F that sometimes when G the time is right F You will my door, G the crescendo comes, and ...

F And "God Only Knows" and you G Am have the one sad similarity F that every time it's over G Am I want to press play again. F G Am But the only difference appears to be F I can force it on one of you G C and on the other I can't.

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San Fransisco C F Am Winter's been real long this year G I know, cause I've been there C F Am Summer never seemed to come along G C and when it did, it felt all wrong F Am You've been sitting on the sidewalks G wondering what went wrong C with your life F You've been walking Am to your bedside table G and in the top drawer was a knife F G Time to grab your sweetheart F G by the hand and lead him F to the Promised Land G F The only place in North America G not destroyed by the government C F G San Francisco! You're going C F G San Francisco! We're going C Don't you know F G C you'll never ever want to turn back

C F Am I have news for you my friend: G C I'm sticking by you until the end F Doctor's ordering you Am the same prescription, G C see, that worked wonders for me F Am I sat by myself in bars, G C I was driven home in state-owned cars F Am I was filled with so much hate G until I saw the Golden Gate F G Until my sweetheart took me F G by the hand and led me F to the Promised Land G F The only place in North America G not destroyed by the government C F G San Francisco! You're going C F G San Francisco! We're going C Don't you know F G C you'll never ever want to turn back C F G San Francisco! You're going C F G San Francisco! We're going C Don't you know

F G C you'll never ever want to turn back F G And it's time to call in sick F and pack your bags G and bring the toothbrush F G Withdraw from that savings F what's savings for, G time doesn't wait and F Hold the door, G F I'm coming, all that jazz G like a release from Alcatraz C F G San Francisco! You're going C F G San Francisco! We're going C Don't you know F G you'll never ever want to turn F G you'll never ever want to turn F G you'll never ever want to turn F G you'll never ever want to turn

C back C back C back C back

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My Best Friend A Bm You call me up in the mornings D E We'll stay on the phone til dawning A D E A You tell me secrets I actually keep A Bm You call me up around noon and D E bring me all good gossip A D E You hold my head when I throw up, A I hold your hand when you weep D And we talk about friends E and we talk about records D E talk about life, and talk about death D and we dance in the living room, E dance on the sidewalks, D dance in the movies, E D dance at the festivals, dance dance. E D E No men ever really dance like this A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian, A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian A D Damn! I wish I was, E A and that you were, too. A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian,

A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian A D Damn! I wish I was, E A So I could fall in love with you. A Bm You call me up in the evenings D E And tell me what they did this time A D E A No matter what, I’m by your side A When it’s raining, Bm D we’ll go to the video store E We even like the same movies A D E A No damn jedis or hobbits this time D And you laugh at my jokes E and I laugh at your jokes D and I even like E the birthday presents you get me, D and we dance in the living room, E dance on the sidewalks, D dance in the movies, E D dance at the festivals, dance dance. E D E No men ever really dance like this A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian, A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian

A D Damn! I wish I was, E A and that you were, too. A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian, A D E Damn! I wish I was a lesbian A D Damn! I wish I was, E A So I could fall in love with you. A Why A Why A why D fall

D E don't, why don't I fall D E don't, why don't I fall don't I just E A in love with you.

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If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die F# B E I check my bed for bugs and spiders B (though I don’t really F# think they’re there) B E I check my head, it’s getting tighter B F# I want to stop, but I don’t dare E F# I will not sleep until B E I’ve counted to 200 three times E F# I will not sleep until my pencils B E Lie in a straight line B Goodnight, goodbye E It’s late, and I’m too tired to cry B Goodnight, goodbye F# Just let me close my weary eyes B E I pray to God twice in the evenings B And check the stove F# Four times each day B I spin around the door

E To make sure that it’s locked B And wear these lucky socks F# Until they fade away E The house might burn down, F# And it’s all my fault B E If that puddle doesn’t get me wet E F# If I get home before the rain B E You’re mine, but I won’t bet

B Goodnight, goodbye E It’s late, and I’m too tired to cry B Goodnight, goodbye F# Just let me close my weary eyes

B Goodnight, goodbye E It’s late, and I’m too tired to cry B Goodnight, goodbye F# Just let me close my weary eyes E F# One day, I’ll be stepping B E On cracks and close my eyes E But I’m too tired F# B To argue with myself E I’ll just do this one more time

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Highschool Stalker A D Bm I've been looking for you, baby E A Anywhere that I can find D And I was searching Bm for your sweet name E A Cause you never left my mind D Bm I've been on the Altavista E A I went twice on the Yahoo D Bm And everywhere I go, E there is always a clue, always something about you that

A D Bm Hacked into the school computer E A changed all of your D's to A's D Bm Broke into the dentist's office E A Know you never needed braces D Know you moved from Bm Another small town E A Know you're never going away D Bm Cause soon, you’ll fall in love, E The fortune lady said

A High school yearbook D Bm I was driving round your Mom's house E A She makes great coffee, you know D Bm I spoke to your former girlfriend E So now, I know A What I've got to expect D Bm And yesterday, you ed me by E I swear, you nearly said Hi

And I know who will be the one A To make your bed

I swear to God I started crying

A

A may help me get my hands on you D Bm Like, it's your birthday tomorrow, E but you're not getting A anything you know D Bm E It's your birthday tomorrow A D but I'm not supposed to know. Bm E Not supposed to know A but I'm not supposed to know. D Bm E Wo-ow wo-o-ow

I could have died

D Bm Cause it's your birthday tomorrow, E but you're not getting A anything you know D Bm E It's your birthday tomorrow A D but I'm not supposed to know. Bm E Not supposed to know A but I'm not supposed to know. D Bm E Wo-ow wo-o-ow

D Bm And it's your birthday tomorrow, E but you're not getting A anything you know D Bm E And it's your birthday tomorrow A D but I'm not supposed to know. Bm E Not supposed to know A but I'm not supposed to know. D Bm E Wo-ow wo-o-ow E A

A D Bm I was talking to your best friend D I checked out your

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D/c# Bm D/f#

D A Bm A G A D A

G A I haven’t told you yet

D D/c# Bm D/f# Party favours on the floor G and a half drunk bottle A with a popcorn in it D D/c# Bm D/f# Yesterday’s dress in a complete mess G and a bruise on my arm, A I don’t know where I got it D D/c# Bm D/f# January 1st and it’s already clear: G A D It’s gonna be another shitty year D/c# Bm D/f# G A D D/c# Bm This years resolutions: D/f# G I will exercise more A Call my grandma D D/c# Bm D/f# Tell my family that I love them G A Learn more about the world wars, and forget D D/c# Bm D/f# I will learn a new word each day G A D D/c# Bm D/f# Today’s word is dejected G and on the top of the list A D there’s you, I’m going to be with you

D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah

but I’m going to be with you D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah D D/c# Bm D/f# Doorbell’s ringing, I ordered pizza G Ate the whole thing, A wish I hadn’t eaten so much, had some more D D/c# Bm D/f# Watching Ivanhoe on TV, G A Picturing me as slacker Marion D D/c# Bm Wished for a life this year, D/f# it’s brand new G A But the only thing that’s true, D I’m going to be with you D/c# Bm D/f# G A I haven’t told you yet but I’m going to be with you G A I haven’t told you yet but I’m going to be with you D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah

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2006 (Svenska) D A Bm A G A D A D D/c# Bm D/f# Serpentinerna på golvet G och en halvtom flaska A med ett popcorn i D D/c# Bm D/f# En trasig klänning jag hade igår G Och ett sår på armen, A vet inte hur jag fick det D D/c# Bm D/f# Första januari och hej, jag förstår, G Det kommer bli A D ett till helt värdelöst år D/c# Bm D/f# G A D D/c# Bm D/f# G A D D/c# Bm Det här årets löften, D/f# G A jag ska springa mera, ringa farmor D D/c# Bm D/f# Säga till folk jag älskar dom G A och lära mig om åren och slagen D D/c# Jag ska lära mig Bm D/f# ett nytt ord om dagen, G A dagens ord är nedslagen

G A Men högst upp på listan är du, D D/c# Bm D/f# Jag tänker va med dig. G A Jag har inte sagt nåt än, men jag ska va med dig D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah D

D/c# Bm D/f# Dörren ringer, jag beställde pizza G A Äter, önskar jag inte ätit så mycket, D D/c# Bm D/f# Äter mer, Ser på Ivanhoe på TV, G A Jag som Rowena i slacker-version D D/c# Bm D/f# Önskar mig ett liv i nyårspresent G A Men högst upp på listan är du, D D/c# Bm D/f# Jag tänker va med dig. G A Jag har inte sagt nåt än, D D/c# Bm D/f# men jag ska va med dig G A Jag har inte sagt nåt än, men jag ska va med dig

D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah D A Bm A G A D A Aaaah

D D/c# Bm D/f#

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The Quiz A D You look nice alright E and I like the way you nod A after everything I say D like it actually means something E to you A D And I like your record collection A Townes and Jens E with a hint of Rickie Lee A And you’ve cleaned up the bathroom, D made a really nice soup E but a bit too much sci-fi in your shelf with DVDs D But there’s some things E you need to know about me: D E I’m weak right now, so weak right now D I need proof before I dare E to open this heart D E so I prepared a quiz for you: A Would you freak out D A if I said I liked you?

E A Do you walk the line? A Is your IQ higher D A than your neighbour’s? E A And is it very much higher than mine? A D A Can you sleep when I grind my teeth? E Do you look away A if I slob when I eat? D Will you let me be myself? E Can you at all times wear socks? A because I’m still scared of feet D And if I’d fall E A Would you pick me up? D If I fall E A Would you pick me up?

A more money than you? A Have you slept with D A any people I work with? E Is there anyone A you’d rather wish I’d be? A Do you still keep pictures D A of old girlfriends? E A Are they prettier than me? D And if I’d fall E A Would you pick me up? D If I fall E A Would you pick me up?

A Do you talk D A in the middle of Seinfeld? E Do you read more than A two books a month? A Do you get racist or sexist D A when you’ve had a few? E Is it fine if I make

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Någon Gång Måste Du Bli Själv G D Em Det här vet du inte om C D G Men jag väntar på dig D Någon gång måste du bli C D G Och jag väntar på dig D Jag bidar tiden och det D G Jag har inte sagt något Em C D Men jag väntar, väntar

Em själv

Em C kommer ta tid D än

G D Em Hon har ett falskt leende C D Jag har sett det G D Hur har du undgått det Em C D alla de här åren G D Em Och jag har sett dina pupiller växer C D G När du är med mig D Du vet inte om det än Em C D Det kommer att bli du och jag G Tillslut

G D Em C D

D Em C D

G D Em Du är inte så fin C D G Men det är nåt med dig D Em Som att komma hem C D G Första gången ja, du sa hej D Em C Det är så logiskt alla fattar utom du D G D Du har inte en aning Em C D G Att jag tänker på dig precis just nu

G D Em Någon gång måste du bli själv G D Em Någon gång måste du bli själv G D Em Någon gång måste du bli själv G

C D C D C D

D Em C D G D Em Någon gång måste du bli själv G D Em Någon gång måste du bli själv

C D C D

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Är Du Fortfarande Arg? C Am Hej du, det va' ju ett tag sen F G Sexhundra dagar men vem räknar precis C Am Och jag tänkte jag skulle höra av mig F G och säga att allt är fint C Am Jag har träffat en annan nu, F han behandlar mig bra G Jag går och nynnar hela tiden C Och jag har färgat håret Am F G och jag har fått pollenallergi och F C G Är du fortfarande arg? C Pappa var på sjukhus, Am han klara' sig bra F G Men han är mycket smalare nu C Am Katten fick fyra fina ungar F Tre av dom dog och G den fjärde heter Sam C Am Jag lärde mig spela munspel, F G jag fick tid över när du försvann C Am F G Aaah F C G Är du fortfarande arg?

C Är du fortfarande arg? F Kan du fortfarande läsa mig? C G Jag brukade skrika och gråta och spy C Men det fanns da'r F Jag minns de än C G De bästa någonsin C Är du fortfarande arg? C Jag såg Kjell Höglund, Am F jag önskar jag var han G Jag gick dit ensam C Am Anna sa hon sett dig på stan F Hon sa du såg glad ut G och hade ny frisyr C Am F G Hon sa den klädde dig, aaah C Och jag, jag nynnar mycket Am F G men jag sjunger knappt längre F C G Och är du fortfarande arg? F C G Är du fortfarande trött? F C G Önskar du fortfarande, F C G att vi aldrig hade mötts?

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Vi Kommer Att Dö Samtidigt A C#m Bm E A Bm Jag dansade brevid dig C#m D Ville gå hem vid fyra A Bm Men jag stannade till sju C#m D Utan att våga säga mer än hej A Bm Du är rätt ung, jag är äldre än du C#m D Men du röker så jag skulle säga att A Bm C#m D vi är plus minus noll A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E E Vi kommer dö A En hund jag kände Bm C#m dog för en vecka sen D Och några dagar senare A dog hans livskamrat Bm C#m Dom kände varandra, det fanns ingen D A poäng att leva utan sin bästa vän Bm C#m Jag förstod det inte då men nu vet D jag vem det kommer bli

A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E E Vi kommer dö Bm C#m Andas, jag kan inte andas Bm För det låter så pinsamt kvavt C#m när jag står brevid dig. Bm För trött för att dölja, C#m det måste vara uppenbart Bm E Kom inte närmre, snälla kom närmre Snälla kom närmre, snälla kom närmre, Kom närmre... A C#m Bm E Aaaah A Bm Vi dansade i samma takt C#m D A Likadana hjärnor som redan tänkt på Bm allt innan nånting har hänt C#m gjort om till ironi, D rädd för nåt som känns A Bm C#m D Låt mig slippa vara smart ikväll A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E Vi kommer dö samtidigt, du och jag A C#m Bm E E Vi kommer dö

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Ditt Kvarter C G Am G F Det är kallt, nästan höst nu aaa G C Jag går runt ditt kvarter G Am G F Fjärde gången den här kvällen G C Vem räknar på det C G Am G F Se det lyser en lampa aaa G C I lägenheten bredvid din G Am Hon som bor där såg alltid på dig G F på ett särskilt sätt G jag kände igen den F G jag hade samma blick själv F G C när jag stal dig från Helen F G Varje träd har en rot, Am varje hus en byggrund F Det är bara min som G Am ryckts bort från mig F G Gud när ska jag bli fridlyst, Am slå upp i en bok F G Hon är en ovanlig art F G så förbjudet att såra, F G C Sätt henne tillbaks där hon stod

C G Am G F Jag har en Elle i min väska aaa G C Så att det ska se ut G Am Som att jag sitter och tar det lungt G F G C bara inte går patrull som förut F G Elle när ska det bli inne Am att vara som jag F G Am Blek och feg och sävlig och lat F G Am Jag har köpt varje nummer sen 96 F G Men det som fortfarande gäller F G är vacker och lycklig F G C och just nu kjol med särskilda veck C G Am G F Det är mörkt nästan natt nu aaa G C Jag går runt ditt kvarter G Knack på axeln Am G det är Helen som vanligt F G du lämnar oss aldrig, F G vi går runt kvarteret F G C Vi blir bara fler och fler

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I Thought You Said Summer Is Going To Take the Pain Away

G But I thought you said A D summer is going to take the pain away

D D/f# G A x2

D/f#

D D/f# Finally, the sky is blue G Last night, my friends A dragged me to some lake D D/f# We drove there real late,

G A Have you ever had the feeling D A/c# Bm that no one really knows G what you’re all about A And when you try to show them D A/c# Bm A They all have things to do tonight

we went too fast G A Sipping cheap sangria in the backseat D D/f# Everybody are laughing and we are G A listening to our favourite songs G But I thought you said A D summer is going to take the pain away D/f# G A D D/f# January brought a headache G A In February, it got even worse D And when you thought it D/f# G couldn't get more awful A Say hello to March D D/f# April brought me to a funeral G A Gained another ten pounds in May

Tonight

G A Have you ever had the feeling D A/c# Bm that no one really knows G what you’re all about A And when you try to show them D A/c# Bm A They all have things to do tonight Tonight D D/f# Finally, the sky is blue G Last night, my friends A dragged me to some lake

D D/f# G A x4 D D/f# G Up on a roof, looking over the city A All by myself thinking: D D/f# G There is nowhere I would rather be A than here, so why am I not D D/f# like the others? And why are you not G A here with me doing crossword puzzles G Saying: "it's going to be okay A D Summer is going to take the pain away D/f# G When I'm gone, I promise G It's going to be okay A D Summer is going to take the pain away

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C F You know we could have had a daughter C F and we could have named her Anna C F And she would have been a sweetheart C F but with punk rock manners

C We would have made F the neighbors jealous C F We could have barbecues at nights Am G With our collected brain resources F she would have an IQ on a 155

F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside

F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside

C You could have taught her F to play hockey C F I could have taught her the guitar Am G And her granddad could show her F the way to the bar

C F She should have won the Nobel price C and thank her mama F for all the good advice Am G And we could have gone swimming F near that cottage by the lake

F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside

And she would never had to know G Am what its like when your heart brakes C When your heart breaks F When your heart breaks Am C F When your heart breaks,

Anna

F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside C F C F C F She would have married a Kennedy C F She would have found the cure for HIV Am

G I’m real sorry Anna F you never got to be F G Cause your daddy moved on Am and he left me F Could have ed us G Am when we'd retire, F bought us a cottage G C near the countryside

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Det Här Är Vad Dom Säger C F Det här är vad alla sagt om dig Dm håll dig borta från honom G han kommer att såra dig C F Det här är vad alla har varnat mig Dm Hej, du är så bräcklig G det kommer att krossa dig

F som jag gör när jag är med dig, Dm jag har aldrig känt så mycket G C som jag gör när jag är med dig

F G det här är vad alla har sagt om mig C C/b håll dig borta från elden Am G F gå inte ute, bär alltid mössa G klä in dig i wellpapp F G du kommer skadas ge dig aldrig hän F Du har så veka leder G C F Dm G du kommer skrapa dina knän ahhh C F Och det här är vad magen säger om dig Dm Du gillar mig för mycket G det måste vara något fel på dig C Det här är vad hjärnan F har sagt om mig Dm Jag måste vara galen, G C jag har aldrig känt så mycket

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Och Jag Grät Mig Till Sömns Efter Alla Dar G Em C D G Em Varenda bok jag kunde C D komma över läste jag G och jag spydde aldrig Em C D på kullen vid 4h gården G Em behövde aldrig ungdomsvården C D den enda som aldrig rökte, G Em den enda som aldrig försökte fuska C D på proven, då lär man sig ju inte nåt G Em jag var nog värd allt stryk C D som jag fått G Em den enda som inte tafsades på, C D den enda som inte bråkades på G Em den enda som hade en god relation C D till mor och far G och jag grät mig till C D efter alla dar, G och jag grät mig till C D efter alla dar,

Em sömns

Em sömns

G Dom säger det är kul Em att vara ung och fri, C fri från vad då? D från förpliktelser, tjena, G Em man skulle vara horan, madonnan, C D smart och korkad på samma gång G Em man skulle ha en kille med bil, C D man skulle ha en silverring G Em jag var inte ens kysst C D men jag visste vem jag var... G och jag grät mig till C D efter alla dar, G och jag grät mig till C D efter alla dar,

G vilken jävla lögn Em C D att det ska vara ens bästa tid G vilken jävla lögn Em C D att det ska vara ens bästa tid

Em sömns

Em sömns

G Em Tack kära år som går, C D tack, kära dagar som lägger G Em en paus mellan nu och då C D och en paus mellan dig och mig G Em jag såg dig på stan igår, C D du såg ledsnare ut än då G Em jag skrattade mig till sömns...

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Sanningsdan A D Är du klar att gå ner på stan? A D Jag är klar att gå ner på stan. A D Är du klar att möta sanningsdan? Bm E Som har byggts upp under så lång tid. Bm E Falling down efter hela mitt liv A Vi går ner på stan A D En gammal klasskamrat till mig, A nej jag vill inte gå på återträff D och återträffa dig! Och sen en gammal tjej A D som är gift och har barn nu, Bm E det var aldrig jag det var du, Bm E nej vi ade aldrig ihop Bm E För du ar inte ihop med nån, A vi går ner på stan A Ner för backen Bm Över torget C#m Finkammen efter alla E som gjort dig ont

A Bm Jesus sa: vänd andra kinden C#m E Vända kinder är det enda jag gjort A vi går ner på stan

Hej chefen du har rätt A D jag borde vara glad

A D Hej du försvann en dag gamla vän

Bm och till julen får vi pennor E med företagslogga på Bm Håll min jacka Martin E när jag börjar slå Bm E Djupa andetag så kan vi gå A Vi går ner på stan A Bm Ner för backen, över torget C#m Finkammen efter alla E som gjort dig ont A Bm Jesus sa: vänd andra kinden C#m Vända kinder är det enda E som jag gjort A Bm Ner för backen, över torget C#m E åh, jag älskar, älskar den här stan A Rak i ryggen Bm Drick champangen C#m E Flanera över cykelvägen på sannings, A sannings, sannings, sanningsdan

Du fick en kille A D och ringde aldrig igen Förutom när han jobbar A D då kan det va fint Bm E Att ha middag bara tjejer dricka vin Bm E Prata om hur jobbigt det är och så, Bm när två Hydman Vallien-glas E går sönder på sommarstället, Åååh! A Vi går ner på stan A Ner för backen Bm Över torget C#m E åh, jag älskar, älskar den här stan A Rak i ryggen Bm Drick champangen C#m Flanera över cykelvägen E A på sanningsdan, på sanningsdan

för jag får ryggbråck A D och 80 öre per dag

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Faller Isär C C Faller isär G F Lalalalalala G jag föll isär idag C G det var ingen som såg det F G ingen anade nånting, inte jag F G Det tog en dag, september, Dm G för att jag skulle tappa allt Mamma såg på mig och sa: Dm Det är ju påsk, G du kan väl vara trevlig

F Du är med mig för det är så lätt G men det är inte lätt att vara jag

G om man bara går fort C

och veta att du är med mig för att jag inte är svår C Faller isär G F Lalalalalala G jag föll isär idag C G jag går fortfarande upprätt, F G men det är någon annan jag F G Ringde sedan ett nummer Dm G det var länge sedan jag slog F Ja, jag blev också chockad men

släkten kommer ju på middag skärp dig, tralla C Faller isär G F Lalalalalala G jag föll isär idag; C G F hundra ledsna små bitar över golvet, G det var en gång jag F G Jag höll dig när du föll på nyår, Dm G skulle du göra samma sak

när något händer vet man plötsligt G vad man känner, vem som räknas allt står klart när allt är fel, så lätt att se rätt C Faller isär G F Lalalalalala G jag föll isär igår C G Jag är fortfarande trasig F men ingen ser ens sår

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Daisies of the Galaxy F C Em D F C Take heart, my little friend Em D And push back your seat F C Soon we'll be far away Em D Far from the street F C Where you learned how to be Em D Not what you are

Em D From the flower bed F C Of the Galaxy Theater Em D While you clear your head F C I thought some daisies Em D Might cheer you up CaddG

Em

D

F Em C D F C Up on the shoulder Em D There is a town F C With a little motel Em D And an old movie house F C We'll go to a movie Em D Whatever it is F C Watchin' the movie Em D The world's gonna end F C And there ain't no place for Em D A boy and his friend F C Em D To go F C I'll pick some daisies

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Dirty Girl C G F I like a girl with a dirty mouth C G someone that I can believe C G F we had a window not open too long C G C but that time is good and gone Em Am And if I ever see her again Dm F Just walking by with some new guy G Em Am I know that we will need to pretend Dm F G And hope our eyes keep telling lies C G Sit on the back porch F and wonder ‘bout her C G What is she doing right now? C G F Making somebody a happier man C G C Dying her hair back to brown

Em Am And if I ever see her again Dm F Just walking by with some new guy G Em Am I know that we will need to pretend Dm F G And hope our eyes keep telling lies C G F I like a girl with a dirty mouth C G Know that I can trust her C G We had our time F but it didn’t last too long C G C And that time is good and gone C G C That time is good and gone C G C That time is good and gone

C G Once in a while F your life gets so good C G Worth all the trouble of the past C G That was the case F but I think I always knew C G C Good things don’t ever last

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Hey Man G Do you know what it's like D To fall on the floor G And cry your guts out C 'Til you got no more G D G Hey man, now you're really living G Have you ever made love D To a beautiful girl G Made you feel like C It's not such a bad world G D G Hey man, now you're really living Em Bm Now you're really giving everything And you're really C G Getting all you gave C Now you're really living what D This life is all about G Well I just saw the sun D Rise over the hill G Never used to give me C Much of a thrill

G D G But hey man now I'm really living G D G C G D G G Do you know what it's like D To care too much G 'Bout someone that you're never C Gonna get to touch G D G Hey man, now you're really living G Have you ever sat down D In the fresh cut grass G And thought about the moment C And when it will G D G Hey man, now you're really living Em Bm Now you're really giving everything And you're really C G Getting all you gave C Now you're really living what D This life is all about G Now what would you say D If I told you that G Everyone thinks

C You're a crazy old cat G D G Hey man, now you're really living G Do you know what it's like D To fall on the floor G And cry your guts out C 'Til you got no more G D Hey man, now you're really G Have you ever made love D To a beautiful girl G Made you feel like C It's not such a bad world G D Hey man, now you're really G Do you know what it's like D To fall on the floor G And cry your guts out C 'Til you got no more G D Hey man, now you're really

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G living

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G D Just saw the sun rise over the hill G Never used to give me C Much of a thrill G D G But hey man, now I'm really living

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I Like Birds E D A I can't look at the rocket launch E D A The trophy wives of the astronauts E D A And I won't listen to their words E 'Cause I like... birds E D A I don't care for walkin' down town E D A Crazy auto car gonna mow me down E Look at all the people D A like cows in a herd E Well I like... birds

E D A If you're small, and on a search E D A I've got a feeder for you to perch on E D I've got a feeder for you E D I've got a feeder for you E D If you're small, and on a E D I've got a feeder for you E D I've got a feeder for you

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E D A If you're small, and on a search E D A I've got a feeder for you to perch on E D A I can't stand in line at the store E The mean little people D A are such a bore E But it's all right D A if you act like a turd E 'Cause I like... birds E D A If you're small, and on a search E D A I've got a feeder for you to perch on

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Mr. E's Beautiful Blues G C The smokestack is spitting black D C G soot into the sunny sky G C The load on the road D C G brings a tear to the Indian's eye G C The Elephant won't forget D C G what it's like inside his cage G C The Ringmaster's Telecaster D C G sings on an empty stage G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C The girl with the curls D C G and the sweet big ribbon in her hair G C She's crawled out the window D C G 'cause her daddy just don't care G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day

G C Finger on the trigger D C G I tell you he is quite a scare G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C The kids fit their lids when their D C G heads hear that crazy sound G C Their neighbour digs the flavour D C G still he's moving to another town (and I don't believe he'll come back) G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C And I don't know how you're D C G taking all the shit you see G C You don't believe anyone D C G but most of all openly agree G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day G C D C God damn right it's a beautiful day

G C The clown with the frown D C G driving down to the sidewalk fair

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Packing Blankets

F A# F A# F A# C

F A# F A# Today is a lovely day to run F A# C Start up the car with the sun

F A# Put out that smoke F A# and breathe some air F A# C Get a new name and cut your hair

A# Packing blankets and A# A roomful of dust Am and a broom to sweep A# Dm All the troubles you

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up C and I have seen

F A# Cross when the drawbridge light F A# is green F Don't look back A# C to that messed-up scene

A# Am Packing blankets and dirty sheets A# A roomful of dust Am and a broom to sweep up A# Dm C All the troubles you and I have seen

A# Am Packing blankets and dirty sheets A# A roomful of dust Am and a broom to sweep up A# Dm C All the troubles you and I have seen A# F And all our troubles will be gone A# F Blowing out over that bridge Am A# Floating up into the sky Gm C Making the storm clouds cry

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Kampens Väg Am Dm Am Öde låg landet, landet av stenar E Am Landet av granar, av renlav och häll Dm Am Och jorden gav liv åt maskar och örnar E Am Lemlar och vargar bland snöklädda fjäll Dm Am Men så en morgon steg dina fötter E Am Stora och tunga på otrampad mark F Och landet, det grep dig C med hungriga armar G Am Och kämpande mot dig på liv och på död E Am Dm Men människans styrka, den skulle segra Am E Am Fast klipphällen färgades röd Am Dm Am Men friheten dränktes i piskornas välde E Am Privategendomen tog dig till slav Dm Och jorden drack blod Am och jorden drack tårar E Am Och tistlarna växte på trälarnas grav Dm Am Men så en morgon höjdes ditt stridsrop E Am Klasskampen föddes med yxa och påk F Och hövdingens kämpar, C dom svingade svärden

G Am Och kämpade mot dig på liv och på död E Am Dm Men människans styrka den skulle segra Am E Am Fast boplatsen färgades röd Am Dm Am I pesthärjat land du dikade kärren E Och marken gav gröda Am till tack för din svett Dm Men jorden bestlagtogs, Am och snart fick du plöja E Am Blott för att göda en rikemansätt Dm Am Men så en morgon stod du vid stugorna E Am Redo att kämpa för åkrar o bröd F Och godsherrens knektar, C dom höjde gevären G Am Och kämpade mot dig på liv och på död E Am Dm Men människans styrka, den skulle segra Am E Am Fast byvägen färgades röd Am Dm Am En dag sa baronen: Gå från min åker E Am Ditt arbete gör mej ej tillräckligt rik Dm Am Och hungrig och frusen kom du till staden E Am Där du fick jobb uppå närmsta fabrik Dm Am Men så en morgon slocknade eldarna

E Am Nävarna höjdes och du gick i strejk F Och borgarnas knektar C med piskor och sablar G Am Dom kämpade mot dig på liv och på död E Am Dm Men människans styrka den skulle segra Am E Am Och fanan, den färgades röd Am Dm Am O, du som har burit mitt frö genom natten E Am Var det blott för att få se mig ge opp Dm Nej, jag svär vid ditt namn Am att det var ej förgäves E Am Du bar dessa plågor, och bar detta hopp Dm Am Ty kanske i morgon står vi som bröder E Am När arbetarklassen gör revolution F C Må borgarnas härar marschera emot oss G Am Och kämpa emot oss på liv och på död E Ty människans styrka, Am Dm ska än en gång segra Am E Am Fast gatstenen ska färgas röd.

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Dekadansen A När Rom gick mot sin undergång, E A då fick dom rika bråttom D A Att roa sig med vin och sång B7 E och vin det fanns det gott om. A Man miste all sin värdighet, E A älskade med ihärdighet B7 Med allt och med alla, ja, E B7 E det måste vart en syn D Sån är dekadansen E A Längtan till dyn A Solkungen av Frankrike E A och hans alla luder D A Hade partaj uti Versailles, B7 E i dimmorna av puder A Dom svinade ner och hade sig, E A men finsmakarna gladde sig B7 Kungens exkrementer E B7 E stod överst på menyn D Sån är dekadansen E A Längtan till dyn

A Dan Axel Broström hette en E A vars dekadans var vild D A Vars kropp fick stöttas upp B7 E var gång nån skulle ta en bild A Han styrde sitt imperium E A i fylla och delirium B7 Nu läser han väl "Piff" E B7 E nånstans där upp i skyn D Sån är dekadansen E A Längtan till dyn A I Folkets hus som byggdes upp E A för att folket skulle vakna D A Sövs vi nu av blod och våld B7 E och kvinnor som är nakna A Åt fanders med moralen, E A mänskan är ju galen B7 Säger Ingmar Bergman E B7 E Själv i Vecko-Revyn D Sån är dekadansen E A Längtan till dyn

D A Då omsätts miljarder B7 E på den egna undergången A Då vevas positivet: E A -Arbetslös, lev livet! B7 Knarka, slåss och våldta, E B7 E Skit i allt, ditt dumma gryn! D Sån är dekadansen E A Längtan till dyn A Men det sjuka ska vi slåss mot, E A Det friska ska vi värna D A Den har inte slocknat, B7 E socialismens stjärna A Men dom vill få oss mjuka, E A med sin egen sjuka, B7 Åt helvete med dom E B7 E och med deras mänskosyn D Ner med dekadansen E A Ner med den i dyn!

A För när borgarna får problem E A med orderingången

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Ombudsmannen G Det var vi som lärde upp dig vid maskinen, minns du det C När du ung och finnig G gjorde din bejublande entré D7 Och det var inte värt G att du sa nånting tvärt C För då var du inte värd G mycket mera än en fjärt A7 D7 G Gamle gosse, det var andra tider det C G Minns du det, säg minns du det, D7 G gosse minns du det? C Eller har din bakdel D7 G blivit alltför bre´? G Men snart blev du intresserad för att slåss för våran rätt C Och du sprang på alla kurser G och blev slipad i ditt bett D7 Och käften din blev smord, G den blev smord med stora ord C Som sprutade ut med ost och korv G kring vårat matsalsbord

A7 D7 G Om jämlikhet som öka´ vitt och brett C G Minns du det, säg minns du det, D7 G gosse minns du det? C Eller har din bakdel D7 G blivit alltför bre´? G Så vi valde dig i klubben, och du lovade och svor: C -Nu ska fan ta frikadellerna G på bolagets kontor D7 Vi gladdes av att höra´t, G det var du som skulle göra´t C Du var inte den som smög omkring G med rävar bakom örat A7 D7 Säg, minns du än ditt löfte, G käre bror? C G Minns du det, säg minns du det, D7 G gosse minns du det? C Eller har din bakdel D7 G blivit alltför bre´?

C Vi som lämnades i sticket, G och som nu går här och svär D7 Du var det hopp som fanns, G och vi undrar ju till mans C Om du än idag kan minnas G vem som gav dig din chans A7 D7 G Och vem som har betalt din karriär C G Minns du det, säg minns du det, D7 G gosse minns du det? C Eller har din bakdel D7 G blivit alltför bre´? G Så idag när vi strejkar och maskinerna står C Se, då kommer du tillbaka G efter alla dessa år D7 Med kostymen ren och sträckt, G och du hejar glatt och käckt C Och du läser lagen för oss G så förbannat skamlöst fräckt A7 D7 G Men gosse, man får skörda vad man sår

G Gosse, minns du oss kamrater, vi som ännu knegar här

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En Örgryteyngling Capo 3rd G A D7 En gång stod där en liten gosse D G Invid örgrytevillans grind Em B7 C Och solens strålar smekte varligt G D G Hans lilla fjuniga rosenkind Em B7 Han skulle hedra den gamla ätten C G Av idel blåblodigt stolta män Am G Och var han gick såg han släktporträtten D7 G Av folk som ruttnat för länge sen A D7 Hans pappa söp och sköt älg i skogen D G Hans namn var aktat och vida känt Em B7 C Han spela golf och han satt på krogen G D G Och slet för födan som disponent Em B7 Och lilla mor gick i päls om våren C G En pudel var hennes bästa vän Am G Hon var aktiv i lottakåren D7 G Samt i djurskyddsföreningen A D7 Och detta arv blev han lärd att bära D G Och tala rent med en fin accent Em B7 C Och uti trägårn bjöd mor på sherry G D G Och skröt för grannfrun som var docent Em B7 Om hur han red och sjöng i hembygdskören C G Och såg begåvad och välväxt ut Am G Men när som allt verkar ljusast för en D7 G Står ofta sorgen bak nästa knut

A D7 Det kom en dag då vår magre yngling D G Tog parti mot sin egen far Em B7 C Och han blev du med hembiträdet G D G Och tog dom fattiga i försvar Em B7 Det kom en dag då han hördes fisa C G På morsans fyrtiotreårsfest Am G Hon flög till New York som tröst och lisa D7 G Och kom hem med en fullblodshäst A D7 Så blev han hippie så som sig borde D G Håret växte i ren protest Em B7 C Han slog sig fri, men vid middagsbordet G D G Där var han alltjämt en punktlig gäst Em B7 Det var en slashas ur sociteten C G Som tog studenten med fem i snitt Am G Om kvällen bodde han på "kometen" D7 G Där han drack rödvin och rökte kitt A D7 Och där satt snusande herrskapsjäntor D G Som stred för kvinnan med stolt förakt Em B7 C Där satt bohemer som kört på tentor G D G Och skrek om arbetarklassens makt Em B7 Och man citerade stora hjärnor C G Ens egen var nästan lika fin Am G Och under höstnattens frusna stjärnor D7 G Kröp man hemåt med viktig min

G D G Som skulle frälsas från ångestkval Em B7 Och hans primalskri ljöd i natten C G Så folk fick för sig där pågick mord Am G Han gjorde upp med sin svåra barndom D7 G För alla damer vid krogens bord A D7 Och till Paris for han på stipendium D G För en hägrande doktorshatt Em B7 C Och för att supa på dom små kaféer G D G Där filosoferna fordom satt Em B7 Det låg ett skimmer över Sartres dagar C G Då Paris var ett paradis Am G Att dom med tiden fick rätt sura magar D7 G Var bara visdomens dyra pris A D7 Men du som lyssnar, och fick betala D G Käre broder, du tillhör dem Em B7 C Som aldrig kommer nån vart i livet G D G Men disponentsonen vände hem Em B7 För han ska hedra den gamla ätten C G Av idel blåblodigt stolta män Am G Som ännu flinar från släktporträtten D7 G Fast dom har ruttnat för länge sen

A D7 Men han blev äldre, och så med tiden D G Fick han allt ädlare ideal Em B7 C Och det blev jaget och individen

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Våren i Backadalen G C G D7 Solen står het över älvens stränder G C D7 G våra garvade ansikten glänser av svett. D D# Em Bm Backadalen sjunger för våra händer C G A7 D7 och vi hälsar våren med klingande spett. C D7 Vi sätter oss ner och snackar G Em på solvarma balkar. C D7 Vi har öl från "Zyrenka", G D7 vi har tobak och snus G C och skjortorna dom fladdrar G D7 i vinden som svalkar G C D7 G och runt om står världen i bländande ljus D7 Gm Så tröstlöst har vi kämpat Cm D7 för vårt levebröd Cm F Bb D7 i mörker och kyla, i snålblåst och snö. Gm Cm Bb F I byschvärmen satt vi och skämtade glatt Cm Bb mens stjärnor brann ut D7 G D7 G D7 i den frostiga natt. G C G D7 Och det enda vi äger det är vår heder G C D7 G som goda kamrater och rediga män. D D# Visst skaffar vi oss ichias Em Bm och styva leder C G A7 D7 men dona skall hålla i många år än. C D7 "Säg Olle du som gift dig

G Em och redan är bunden C D7 har du grubblat dig grå G D7 över skulder och lån G C så slå nu bort all oro G D7 och lev för stunden, G C D7 G berätta nu stolt om din nyfödde son." D7 Gm Och "Lappen" du fladdrar Cm D7 och mår som en prins Cm F och minns små historier Bb D7 med hemtraktens qvinns. Gm Cm Bb F Men sträv är din röst av det bittra salt Cm Bb du svalde där hemma D7 G D7 G D7 där människor svalt. G C Men "Tjocke-Per" du skrävlar G D7 och skräder ej orden G C D7 G och säger att basen är dum som en get. D D# När han blev född av morsan Em Bm till denna jorden C G A7 D7 så kolla hon in en och trodde hon sket. C D7 "Karl-Alfred" du snyter G Em den rödsvullna krana´ C D7 G D7 som ruttnat av brännvin och ensamma år G C G D7 men nu glömmer du din ensliga levnadsbana G C D7 G för sjömansbravader i ungdomens vår.

[Chorus]: G C Och Backadalen susar G D7 den bultar och larmar G C den darrar, den suckar, D7 G den kvider och slår. D D# Här har vi skördat stålet Em Bm med knotiga armar C G A7 D7 och här har vi sått våra dagar och år. C D7 Och det är som om världen G Em är bara vår egen C D7 tills vi plötsligt får syn G D7 på vår snokande boss G C och reser oss med möda G D7 och tvekan i stegen G C D7 G och kisar mot solen som nyss sken för oss [Chorus]

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De Mördades Fria Republik Am G Dm Jag åt min gröt och läste tidningen, F C tog väskan I min hand G och kysste kärringen. Dm Djup låg snön, G Am och natten såg mitt spår C G Där, på vägen som jag traskat Am G Am fram I tretton långa år.

Am Sen firades jag ner G Dm till min enkla lägenhet F C och började rulla tummar G I min tysta ensamhet. Dm Då var det nå'n som sa: G Am "Kamrat och bästa lik! C G Am Välkommen till de mördades G Am fria republik!"

Am Och denna dag G Dm låg vinden på från nord. F C VI svetsade på däck, G trettI meter över jord. Dm Då hörde jag ett dån, G Am och någon som skrek: "Sven!!" C G Am Men allt försvann I blod och eld, G Am och det blev natt igen.

Am Och där, bland sten, G Dm bland rötter, sand och mull, F C låg människor I led. G Hela jorden var full Dm av kvinnor och män G Am som arbetat en gång. C G Am Och de reste sig så jorden skalv, G Am och stämde upp en sång:

Am Så vaknade G I en kista F och tänkte G det liknar

Am G Dm "VI mördades I den svenska industrin. F C vI är femhundra per år

jag upp Dm utav gran, C att: Det här, ju själva fan!

Dm Och kärringen, hon grät, G Am och var likblek I sin syn C G Am medan prästen bad till Herren Gud G Am med näsan sin I skyn.

G som blir slaktade som svin Dm I fabrikerna där man G Am suger ut vår märg. C G Am Och störst av alla mördare G Am är Jacob Wallenberg.

Am G "Det var vI som höll igång Dm hans fabrik, F C det var vI som föll, G och blev burna ut som lik. Dm VI bugade för bödeln, G Am vI gödde honom stor C G medan sossarna och facket Am G Am sprang och putsade hans skor. Am "Nu kräver vI hämnd, G Dm hör vårt bittra skrik! F C Det hörs genom maskinerna G I varje fabrik. Dm Det hörs I vindens sus, G Am och I höga furors sång. C G Am Och det kräver att du gör din plikt G Am och hämnas oss en gång. Am "Och genom maskinerna G Dm sjunger vI för er: F C Studera Marx och Lenin, G och förena er! Dm G Am Klass mot klass måste striden stå, C G Am och I tysthet ska vI stiga upp och G Am vara med er då!!"

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Mina Herrar Som Räknar Profiter A D A Han stod vid dom rullande banden D A Han fick släpa på tusentals ton D A F#m Men han stod inte med mössan I handen E7 A Och han krusade aldrig för nån A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband A D A Han agiterade på fabriken D A - VI får slita I gaser och damm D A F#m För nån jävel som blivit en rik en E7 A Utan att lyfta ett gram A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband A D A Men när missnöjet började svälla D A Kom en rödmosig fackombudsman

D - VI förhandlar som bäst A F#m så var snälla E7 A Och ge er till tåls litegrann A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband A Men till strejk gick man D A redo att strida D A Eniga som en man D A F#m Och facket det valde genast sida E7 A Och lyste strejken I bann

A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband A D A Och han fördes till rätten och lagen D A Och blev dömd för sitt syndfulla svek D A F#m Men det svar som domaren den dagen E7 A fick I käften, det gjorde honom blek

A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband

A D A Mina herrar som räknar profiter D A Parasiter som styr detta land D A F#m NI ska få sopa I våra fabriker E7 A Ert förbannade rövarband A D A Han blev uppförd på SÄPO:s D A Han blev kickad helt resolut D A F#m För av LO:s ränker och lister E7 A Krossades strejken till slut

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Ballad Till Minnet Av En Kamrat G Över hissingens hamnar, D fabriker och berg Em C Går den susande natten fram G D Och vägarna dånar, och himmelens färg Em C D Är som älvens muddrade slam G D I en tindrande vintergata av ljus Em C Stiger skeppsvarv i strängt majestät G Som snart ska få vila D I folkhemmets grus Em C D Som stenar som ropar och vet G Och jag tänker på dig D medan timmarna far Em C Och fast allt är så länge sen G Och det är som du plötsligt D står framför mig, klar Em C Am D7 Här i köket i E6:ans sken G Jag kan höra din röst, D din flammande eld Em C Dina ord om en arbetarstat

G Dom har darrat i mig D sen den dag jag blev ställd Em C Am "Fri" från att tjäna min mat

Med hus och med täppa och vitmålat plank Och ingenting i världen som stör D7

Och jag tänker på tider som är och som var Det fanns en tid då ens blod stod i brand Det var brudar och bärs, då fanns framtiden kvar Och en livslust som slet alla band Då var sommaren blå, då var friheten fri Den var löning var fjortonde dag Och nån "svensson", det skulle vi fan aldrig bli Och vi var bästa kamrater, du och jag

Men vi har blivit för lata och dyra i drift Och dom som har arbete kvar Dom ska tydligen långsamt utrotas med gift Av dom få som har samhällsansvar Och E6:an sjunger och himlen blir ljus Den är röd som ditt flammande hat Var finns din näve bland sovande hus? Den näve du gav mig, kamrat!

Men så fann du din mö och blev farsa med fart Det stod bröllop i grönskande vår Det kom blommor i fönstren och allt var så rart Ja, din tös börjar skolan i år Och du började tjata om saker du läst Om klassernas krig mot varann Om jobbarnas stolthet som sossarna kväst I en välfärd, där målet försvann

Dina tankar, dom växte i frätande gas På en fruktansvärd kemisk fabrik Tills sjukdomen kom, och du slutligen las På en skinande cancerklinik Jag drömde väl då, fast jag ofta var pank Om ett liv, som dom flesta väl gör

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Everts Sista Arbetsdag Dm A nu är det dags för evert Bb A Dm att stämpla ut sitt kort Dm A att stämpla ut för alltid Bb A Dm och ha sitt I livet gjort F A7 hans namn skall inte lysa Dm Bb A7 bland dom som gjort något stort Dm C han var en järnarbetare Bb Gm A som bar järn och lag och flak Dm C A Dm I 50 år på söderberg och haak Dm A stora män med pennor Bb A Dm eller bloddrypande svärt Dm A får ordnar och medaljer Bb A Dm för att dom frälst vår värld F A7 Evert fick en sopkvast Dm Bb A7 och det kan han gott vara värd Dm C han vigde ej sitt liv Bb Gm A åt någon särskilt ädel sak Dm C A Dm bara 50 år åt söderberg och haak

Dm A det tunga järn han bar Bb A Dm blev till välling åt dom små Dm A blev värmen från en spis Bb A Dm I en kall och dragig vrå F A7 så nog skall han vara tacksam Dm Bb A7 för det välstånd han fått nå Dm C och han kan tacka fan Bb Gm A för att ännu kan stå rak Dm C A Dm trots 50 år på söderberg och haak

Bb A Dm kan läka alla sår F A7 men vem om det någonsin Dm Bb A7 kan plåna ut hans spår Dm C han var en järnarbetare Bb Gm A som bar järn och lag och flak Dm C A Dm I 50 år på söderberg och haak

Dm A nu tackas han för allt Bb A Dm och får rosor för sin flit Dm A själv är han lite dragen nu Bb A Dm och vinglar hit och dit F A7 ja nu kan livet börja Dm Bb A7 för en annan liten skit Dm C som aldrig kröp för herrar Bb Gm A utan höll på sin sak Dm C A Dm I 50 år på söderberg och haak Dm A och snart skall han grävas ner Bb A Dm och föräras någon tår Dm A men det heter ju att tiden

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Visa Till SAP C F Snälla SAP, Svenska Arbetar-Partit C Jag är en ynklig stackare, G7 knappt mera än en skit C Låt mig blI permitterad, F jag ska ta mitt pick och pack C Och skaffa mig en bostad G7 C I nån mysig AMS-barack C Och skona mig från frestelser F av alla hemska slag C Att strejka och att bryta G7 mot Svea Rikes Lag C Och skänk mig fler poliser F med pansarfordon C Ifall pöbeln och packet G7 C skulle våga ta sig ton C Och skulle jag blI mosad F vid min härliga maskin C Bestå mig med begravning, G7 jag ska dö med tacksam min C Men får jag ändå leva

F tills jag haltar som ett hjon C Så skänk mig ett fång rosor G7 C vid min förtidspension C Och hedra fader Wallenberg F på det att han må bli C Förste hedersmedlem G7 I vårt arbetarparti C Till honom och hans drängar F sätter jag min lit C Ty jag är en ynklig stackare, G7 C knappt mera än en skitstövel.

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Johan och Johanna Am Em Johan o Johanna träffade varandra Am och vips var amor framme E och sköt sin röda pil Am så lova dom att aldrig C G skilda vägar vandra Am G E7 Am uppå livets gröna och solbelysta stig Am -Jag skall bara knega, Em sa Johan till Johanna Am Aldrig ska jag dricka, E vI ska spara varje peng Am VI ska sätta bo, C G vI tar banklån medesamma Am G Skaffar fräna möbler E7 Am och en stilig dubbelsäng Am Johan och Johanna Em satte barn till världen Am Hon var bara arton, men E vem tänkte väl på det Am Och så en dag om våren C G skedde bröllopsfärden Am G Med snabbussen ut

E7 Am till en förortslägenhet Am - Nyss var jag själv ett barn, Em och här står jag med en liten Am Nyss var det gröna ängar E så långt man kunde se Am Och trots att man blev varnad C G så fastna man I skiten Am G Nu får man byta blöjor, E7 Am koka välling och pure´ Am Em Johan och Johanna förde inget väsen Am Den tillvaro dom levde E var enkel och rejäl Am Den lycka som dom sökte, C G den var inte kräsen Am G Men snart var tiden mogen E7 Am för deras första gräl Am - Va fan är det för stövlar, Em Tror du vI är miljonärer?! Am Här har man jobbat över E för å få´t å gå ihop Am Sen springer du och slösar C G I stans alla affärer Am G Ja, då går jag på krogen,

E7 Am jag ger fan I alltihop Am Johan och Johanna Em levde för sig själva Am Med färg-TV och bokhylla, E bil och tvättmaskin Am Och han fick jobba över C G ibland ända till elva Am G Det gick med lite valium E7 Am och magmedicin Am - Säg inte att jag slösar Em och missköter figuren Am För du vet inte priset E på ett enda kilo färs Am Och se dig själv I spegeln C G så får du se en ful en Am G Blekfet som en gris – E7 Am orkar bara dricka bärs Am Em Johan o Johanna träffade varandra Am och vips var amor framme E och sköt sin röda pil Am Och aldrig nånsin skall dom C G skilda vägar vandra Am G E7 Am uppå livets gröna och solbelysta stig

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Tank Park Salute Okay, this might look a bit complicated, but it's really not. The >-chord is just a walkdown on the Bstring from D to C. The rest of the song is basically just C and G shapes. G G/f# D C D* > C e:---------------------------------| B:---8----8----0---0----3---0--1---| G:---0----0----0---0----0----------| D:---9----0-------------4---4--2----| A:--10----9----9---7----5---5--3----| E:------------10---8---------------| G G/f# D C G G/f# Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers D Leave the light on C at the top of the stairs G Tell me the names G/f# D C of the stars up in the sky G G/f# A tree taps on a window pane D C That feeling smothers me again G Daddy is it true G/f# D C that we all have to die D* > C

D* > C At the top of the stairs D* > C Is darkness D* > C At the top of the stairs G G/f# D C, G/f# D C Is darkness

G G/f# I closed my eyes and when I looked D C Your name was in the memorial book G And what had become G/f# D C of all the things we planned G G/f# I accepted the commiserations D Of all your friends C and your relations G But there's some things G/f# D C I still don't understand

D* > C

D* > C I offer up to you D* > C This tribute D* > C I offer up to you G/f# D C This tank park salute G/f# D C G/f# D C

D* > C D* > C You were so tall D* > C How could you fall? D* > C G/f# D C G/f# D C G G/f# Some photographs of a summer's day D C A little boy's lifetime away G Is all I've left of G/f# D C everything we've done G G/f# Like a pale moon in a sunny sky D C Death gazes down as I by G To remind me that G/f# D C I'm but my father's son

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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Capo on 4th C /b Am (x2) C /b It may have been Camelot Am G for Jack And Jacqueline C /b Or on the Che Guevara highway, Am G filling up with gasoline C /b Fidel Castro's brother Am G spies a rich lady who's crying C /b Over luxury's disappointments, Am G so he walks over and he's trying F G To sympathize with her, C /b Am but he thinks that he should warn her G F That the third world G C /b Am C /b Am is just around the corner C C/b In the Soviet Union, Am G a scientist is blinded C C/b By the resumption of nuclear testing, Am G and he is reminded F G That Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's C /b Am G F G C optimism fell at the first hurdle /b Am C /b Am

C /b In the cheese pavilion, Am G the only noise I hear C /b Is the sound of someone stacking chairs Am G and mopping up spilled beer F G And someone asking questions C /b Am and basking in the light G F G Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes C /b Am C /b Am of the fanzine writer C /b Mixing pop and politics, Am G he asks me what the use is C /b I offer him embarrassment Am G and my usual excuses F G While looking down the corridor C /b Am out to where the van is waiting G F G C I'm looking for the great leap forwards /b Am C /b Am C /b Jumble sales are organized Am G and pamphlets have been posted C /b Even after closing time, Am G there's still parties to be hosted F G You can be active with the activists, C /b Am or sleep in with the sleepers G F While you're waiting G C /b Am G for the great leap forwards

F G Oh one leap forwards two leaps back, C /b Am G will politics get me the sack F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards F Well here comes the future G and you can't run from it C /b If you've got a blacklist Am G I wanna be on it F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards F Well it's a mighty long way G down rock and roll C /b Am G From top of the pops to drawing the dole F You're waiting G C /b for the great leap forwards F G When no one out there understands C /b Start your own revolution Am G and cut out the middleman F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards F G In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune C /b Am G But this is reality so give me some room F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards F G So the struggle while you may C /b Am G The revolution is just a T-shirt away F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards F G C /b Waiting for the great leap forwards

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Help Save the Youth of America G C G D G C G D G G C G Help save the youth of America D Help save them from themselves G C G Help save the sunshine surfer boy D G and the California girls G When the lights go out C G in the rest of the world D What do our cousins say G They're playing in the sun C G and having fun, fun, fun D G Till daddy takes the gun away G C G From the big church to the big river D And out to the shining sea G C G This is the land of opportunity D G And there's a monkey trial on tv C G A nation with their freezers full D Are dancing in their seats G C G While outside another nation D G Is sleeping in the streets

C G Don't tell me the old, old story D Tell me the truth this time G C G Is the man in the mask or the indian D G An enemy or a friend of mine G C G D G C G D G G C G Help save the youth of america D Help save the youth of the world G C G Help save the boys in uniform Their mothers and their D G faithful girls G C G Listen to the voice of the soldier D Down in the killing zone G C G Talking about the cost of living D G And the price of bringing him home

D in the fate of us all G C G And the incident at chernobyl proves D G The world we live in is very small G The cities of Europe C G have burned before D and they may burn again G And if they do I hope you D that washington will burn D G omaha will burn with them D los alamos will burn with

C G understand G with them

G them

G C G G D G

G C G They're already shipping the bodybags D Down by the rio grande G But you can fight C G for democracy at home D G And not in some foreign land G And the fate of the great C G united states is entwined

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The World Turned Upside Down E In sixteen forty nine, B To St George's Hill A A ragged band they called the Diggers E Came to show the peoples' will E They defied the Landlords, B They defied the laws A They were the dispossessed, B E Reclaiming what was theirs E "We come in peace" they said, B To dig and sow A We come to work the lands in common E And to make the wastegrounds grow E This earth divided, B We will make whole A So it will be B E A common treasury for all E B The sin of property, we do disdain A No man has any right to buy and sell E The earth for private gain

E By theft and murder B They took the land A Now everywhere the walls B E Spring up at their command E B They make the laws to chain us well A The clergy dazzle us with heaven E Or they damn us into hell E We will not worship B The god they serve A B The god of greed who feeds the rich E While poor man starve E We work, we eat together B We need no swords A We will not bow to the masters E Or pay rent to the lords E B We are free men, though we are poor A B You diggers all stand up for glory E Stand up now

A They sent the hired men and troopers E To wipe out the Diggers' claim E Tear down their cottages, B Destroy their corn A They were dispersed, B E But still the vision lingers on E You poor take courage, B You rich take care A This earth was made a common treasury E For everyone to share E B All things in common, all people one A We come in peace, B E The orders came to cut them down

E From the men of property, B The orders came

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Between The Wars G Am C G I was a miner, I was a docker, D Em C D I was a railwayman between the wars D Em I raised a family, C G in times of austerity, D Em with sweat at the foundry C D G between the wars D Em I paid the union, C G then as times got harder, D I looked to the government to help the working man G Am but they brought prosperity C G down at the armoury, D Em we're arming for peace, see boys, C D G C between the wars G Am C G I kept the faith and I kept voting, D Em not for the iron fist C D but for the helping hand D Em for theirs is a land C G with a wall around it

D Em C D G and mine is a faith in my fellow man D Em C G theirs is a land of hope and glory, D mine is the greenfield

D Em desert us not, C D G we are between the wars

and the factory floor G Am theirs are the skies C G all dark with bombers D Em and mine is the peace we knew C D G between the wars G Am call up the craftsman, C G bring me the draughtsman, D Em C D build me a path from cradle to grave D Em and I'll give my consent C G D to any government that does not Em C D G deny a man a living wage D Em go find the young men, C G never to fight again, D bring up the banners from the days gone by G Am Sweet moderation, C G heart of this nation,

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There Is Power In a Union G There is power in a factory, C power in the land G D Power in the hand of the worker G But it all amounts to nothing C if together we don't stand G D G There is power in a Union G Now the lessons of the past C were all learned with workers blood G The mistakes of the bosses D we must pay for G From the cities and the farmlands C to trenches full of mud G War has always been D G the bosses way, sir G The Union forever

C from many far-off lands G D G There is power in a Union G Now I long for the morning C that they realise G Brutality and unjust laws D cannot defeat us G But who'll defend the workers C who cannot organise G When the bosses send D G their lackeys out to cheat us?

G The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, D all workers unite G With our brothers and our sisters C from many far-off lands G D G There is power in a Union

G Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for D the skin and the bone? G What a comfort to the widow, C a light to the child G D G There is power in a Union

A

defending our rights Down with the blackleg, D all workers unite G With our brothers and our sisters

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Singer-Songwriter E A Your great-grandfather B E was a great lawyer A B E And his kid made a mint off the war A B Your father shot stills E and then directed films A B E That your mom did publicity for B I saw your older sis A on the year's best book list E B And your brother, he manages bands And you're keen to down play, A but you're quick to betray E With one welt and that wave B of your hand E You come from wealth Yeah, you got wealth A What a bitch, B E B they didn't give you much else A B I heard cuts by The Kinks E on your speakers A B E I saw Poe and Artaud on your shelves A B While The Last Laugh's first scene E on your flat screen

A B Lit Chanel that you've wrapped E around yourself B You've got outsider art A by an artist you arguably E B kidnapped to pin on the wall Your designers have slyly A directed the eye E down pink lines here B and your well lit pawn E You've got taste, you've got taste A B What a waste that that's all E B that you have A Oh, you wrote your thesis B E on the gospel of Thomas A B You shot some reversal film E in Angkor Wat A B And this book you once read E said there's less people dead A at this point now, B E than those who are not B And this film we once saw A was reviled for it's flaws E But it's flaws were

B what made us have fun B And the life some folks had A might have made us feel bad E Why feel bad? B Man, it's nothing you've done E It's all in your hand It's all in your hand A B Like a gun, like a glove, E B like a grand B And this thing you once said A disappeared from my head E B In the time that it took to be amazed B And this thing you once did A might have dazzled the kids E But the kids once grown up B are gonna walk away A And your world B E is gonna change nothing A And your world B E is gonna change nothing A B E And our world is gonna change nothing A B E And our world is gonna change nothing A B E And our world is gonna change nothing

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Our Life Is Not A Movie, Or Maybe G C It's just a bad movie, G D where there's no crying G C handing the key to me G D in this Red Lion, C G where the clock that you locked C Em D in the suite says there's no prying. C G When the breath that you breathed C in the street screams Em D there's no science C G When you look how you looked C Em D then to me, then I cease lying C G C Em D and fall into silence. G C It's just a life story, G D so there's no climax. G C No more new territory, G D so pull away the imax. C G In the slot that you sliced through C Em D the scene there was no shyness. C G In the plot that you ed through

C Em D your teeth there was no pity. C G No fade in: film begins C Em D on a kid in the big city. C G C And no cut to a costly parade Em D (that's for him only!). C G C No dissolve to a sliver of grey Em D (that's his new lady!) C G where she glows just like grain C on the flickering pane Em D of some great movie.

C Em D mantelpiece, it's got a calm clicking C G C like a pro at his editing suite Em D takes two weeks stitching C G C Em D up some bad movie.

G C It's just a house burning, G D but it's not haunted. G C It was your heart hurting, G D but not for too long, kid. C G In the socket you spin C Em D from with ease there is no sticking. C G From the speakers your fake C Em D masterpiece comes serenely dribbling. C G When the air around your chair fills C Em D with heat, that's the flames licking C G Beneath the clock on the clean

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For Real Bm D Some nights I thirst for real blood A G for real knives, for real cries. Bm And then the flash of steel D A from real guns in real life G really fills my mind. A G D I really miss what really did exist A when I held your throat so tight. Em G And I miss the bus D as it swerved from us A and almost came crashing to its side. Bm D Sometimes the blood from real cuts A feels real nice G when it's really mine. Bm D And if you want it to be real, A come over for one night, G we can really, really climb, A G and those blue bridge lights D might really burn most bright A while we watch that dark lake rise. Em G And if you really want to see

D what really matters most to me, A we can just take a real short drive. Bm D A G Bm D Just a drive into the dark stretch, A long stretch of night, G will really stretch this shaking mind Bm D And this room, unlit, unheated, A and the ceiling striped, G and the dark black blinds A I want to know this time G if you're really finally mine. D I need to know that you're not lying A and so I want to see you tried. Em G And I don't want to hear you say D it shouldn't really be this way, A because I like this way just fine. Em G And there's nothing quite like D the blinding light A when that curtain's cast aside, Em G and no attempt is made to explain D away the things that really,

A really, really are behind Bm D You can't hide A You can't hide G You can't hide

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Linoleum by NOFX

E G#m Possesions never meant anything to me I'm not crazy C#m B Well that's not true, A B I've got a bed and a guitar E And a dog named Bob G#m who pisses on my floor C#m That's right, I've got a floor B A B So what, so what, so what? E I've got pockets full of B kleenex and lint and holes C#m A Where everything imporatnt to me E just seems to fall right down my leg G#m and on to the floor C#m B A My closest friend linoleum B E Linoleum B s my head, C#m A gives me something to believe

C#m Metal meter in my hand A Sporting a pocket full of change E That's me on the street B with a violin under my chin C#m Playing with a grin, A singing gibberish E B That's me on the back of the bus C#m That's me in the cell A That's me inside your head That's me inside your E B C#m A heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeead E That's me inside your head E G#m C#m B A B E B That's me on the back of the bus C#m That's me in the cell A That's me inside your head E That's me inside your head

E That's me on the beachside B combing the sand

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It's A Wonderful Life C Dm G C x2 C Once again I wake up alone Dm on the wrong side of my bed G And once again you begin your dancing nakedly C on the right side of my head It’s for a lack of better words Dm that I can hardly speak my soul G And I’m feeling what I’m feeling when I’m feeling when it’s time C to lose control, my love F G C And once again we’re off to war F G But I can’t agree Am with what we’re fighting for F G And that’s not all, C G Am because every time she smiles G F I see her soul G When I smile what a wonderful life C Dm G C x2 C It’s true I used to try But then I gave up,

Dm I learned it doesn’t really matter What I do ain’t enough G to appease or to please All my well meaning deeds C seem to all go up in smoke

look so pretty G as you when you smile oh you’re wild for a while C I was hoping I might see you again And I know that

And every time I look into these

Dm everybody's willing to go

smoke filled skies Dm I wonder what she’s doing,

And I find I’ll turn it all G and leave on a dime

why I volunteered to die G But tonight I will fight for my life C so I might see my wife again

If I leave tonight,

F G C I explained to her that I’d be back F G When I gave my word Am that the fighting wouldn’t last F G But despite my pact, C G I know that every breath Am G F I draw might be my last G And I smile, it’s been a wonderful life C Dm G C x8 C Goddamn another summer in the city Dm and I've never seen a girl

screw what’s right, C I can make it home by dawn F G And I was told, C “Boy, prepare for war!” F G But they failed to mention C what I’d be fighting for F G So I fight for this: C G Am The fact that as I away, G F I’ll feel her kiss G F When I smile, what a wonderful life G F Me oh my, what a wonderful life G Oh, to die for such a wonderful life C Dm G C x2 G C G C

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As The Footsteps Die Out Forever E

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F#m A X2

E B She was diagnosed on a Friday, A The kids were almost home, F#m A The kids were on their way E back home from school, B Lying face down in the gutter, A Of unaccomplished dreams, F#m A E And broken memories of things to come B "Sorry ma'am, I really am. I had to break the news. A I had to make the phone call F#m A to tell you that you're due, E B You know where, I'll tell you when, A And I suggest you start living F#m these next three weeks, A E The best way that you can." [Chorus]: B Every night for three long weeks, A F#m A She’d roam the hallways half asleep, E B And as the footsteps fade away,

A In my mind, I could swear, F#m A I could swear, I heard her say: B Don't wait for me, E you’ve got a lot to do, F#m A you’ve got a lot to be, B And in the end maybe, I'll see you there. E

B

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E B Lost her strength on a Saturday, A Spent the day in bed. F#m A Yeah, I'm fine; it's just the flu E B she said, with a smile, A But when they turned their backs, F#m The tears would flow. A E She knew she only had a while, B to live, to breathe, A to be, to see, to bleed, F#m A To stand on her own E two weakened feet, B A "And so I pray everyday: F#m A E don't take my mother away"

[Chorus] x2 A B And in the end you know I'll see you, A B There and in the end E I’ll see you there A B Don't wait for me, E you’ve got a lot to do, F#m A you’ve got a lot to be, B And in the end maybe, E I'll see you there.

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We Will Fall Together Bm F# G G F# Bm F# G F# G F# Bm F# G G F# G F# Bm G F# Bm G F# D G F# Bm G F# D G A Bm Bm Bm I once knew a guy, obsessed with the afterlife F# G F# Oh what a terrible day that was, G F# he realized he'd wasted all his, Bm Time was ticking by, and he'd been left behind F# G And as the clock tick-tocked F# G his heart did stop F# and everything he had was fucked [Chorus]: G F# And we know not what we do Bm A G F# G (Can you hear them call?) F# Will we ever make it through? Bm C# D Bm G (As they watch us fall) A from the sky (to the ground) to the sea D (Woe is me), woe is me,

F# G no one will save you now A F# We can only look away (away!), Bm A G F# G away-way-way-way-way A We'll not be victims D F# G there'll be no victims of to speak A Bm And only then will we be free G A Bm And up will rise the meek D And when we fall A G we will fall together Bm D No one will catch us A G so we'll catch ourselves Bm D And where we roam A G we will roam forever Bm D F# Bm No one will understand what we meant Bm Bm Bm

F# G G F# F# G F# G F# F# G G F#

Bm The beaten and the bruised, forsaken, the abused F# G F# Oh what a glorious day we'll have G F# Bm ri and claiming all our dues The day will come as sure as the ever-setting sun

F# G F# And all of those that self-imposed G F# G will find themselves so indisposed [Chorus] Bm

F# Bm F# Bm F#

Bm D Em F# Now! with the line drawn in the Bm D G F# Wet Sand, you need to tell us where you stand Bm D Sitting, waiting, watching, rotting, Em F# Bm everything they warned us of is true D G Now tell me what we're F# all supposed to do G A They're coming after all of us Bm with everything they've got G A With the fury of a soldier Bm who will answer to his God G A So how will we fight? When all we have is F# logic and love on our side Bm

D And when we fall A G we will fall together....... End on Bm

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A Better Place, A Better Time G

Bm Em C So she wakes up in time to break down G Bm Em She left a note up on the dresser C G and she's right on time Bm C D G Bm C D You don't know anything right or wrong G Bm Em C I said I know, and she said so G Bm Em C I want to panic but I've had it so I go, G Bm C D G Bm C D you don't owe anything to anyone C Bm G Bm C But don't take your life Bm G F# Em because it's all that you've got you'd be better off Bm just up and leaving C D if you don't think they will stop [Chorus]: G Bm And when you wake up Em C D everything is going to be fine G Bm I guarantee that you wake Em C D in a better place, in a better time G Bm so you're tired of living Em C D and you feel like you might give in G Bm Em C D well don't, it's not your time G Bm Em C x4 G

Bm Em flippin' through the paper today C G looking for a specific page Bm don't want to find her Em C G full name followed by dates Bm C because when I left her alone

D G she made a sound, like a moan Bm C "you're known by everyone D G for everything you've done" Bm C fuck buying flowers for graves D I'd rather buy you a G Bm C D G one way non-stop to anywhere Bm C find anyone, do anything D G forget and start again, love Bm C D she said she won't go, (and that's that) G it hurts too much to stand by D Em you've got to stop and draw a line C D G everyone here has to choose a side tonight, D the moment of truth is haunting you, Em don't forget your family C D regardless of what you choose to do G D you can't decide, and they're all screaming "why won't you?" Em I'll start the engine C D but I can't take this ride for you G D I'll draw your bath and I'll load your gun, Em C D but I hope so bad that you'll bathe and hunt G Bm C D x4 G Bm C Annie's tired of forgetting about today D G Bm C and always planning for tomorrow, tomorrow, D G Bm Annie says "The saddest day I came across C D was when I learned that life goes on G Bm C without me, without me" D G Bm Annie says "If everyone has someone else, C D then I ain't got nobody's love

G Bm C D to save me, to save me" Annie says G Bm "I think I'll away tonight C D because it seems I'll never get it right G Bm C D if it's just me, it's just me" Annie says! Em Bm C D x4 [Chorus] G Bm Annie says she wouldn't mind C D if they never find a cure G Bm C D for all her problems, her problems, Annie says G Bm As long as she has someone near C to make it clear D G Bm C she doesn't need to solve them, to solve them D G Annie says "oh, this loneliness is Bm C killing me it's filling me D G Bm C with anger and resentment, resentment" D G Bm Annie says "I'm turning into someone that C D G Bm C D I never thought I'd have to be again" Em Bm C D x4 [Chorus] Annie's tired of forgetting about today... [Chorus] G Bm And even if it was, I wouldn't let you go Em C You could run run run run, D But I will follow close G Bm Someday you will say "that's it, that's all" Em but I'll be waiting there C D with open arms to break your fall G Bm I know that you think that you're on your own Em but just know that I'm here C D G and I'll lead you home if you let me Bm Em C D G she said "forget me", but I can't...

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C G Why do you cry when you know Am how the story ends? F C How can you laugh when you know G that it hurts your friends? C G We've all been there once, Am but you never left F C G This is me coming back to get you out to say goodbye, to make amends C G Am I'm not leaving this place F G Unless I'm leaving with you C G Cause you're the only person Am Em with a half decent heart here F C G And I know you will put it to use C G Am Until it's gone, gone, gone F C G Gone, gone, gone C G Am Em F G Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, yeah C G Am F x2 Na na na..... C

G Am When as you close your eyes for the big sleep F C G Am F I hope you think of me, yeah C G And if you go, I'll be gone Am F And you'll be left alone C G to live your life, as you please Am F But someday you'll agree C G that I was always meant for you Am F You were always meant for me

C G and you will see C Am that you're impossible C Am F G You're impossible C Am F G You're impossible C Am F G You're impossible C

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C G Am Me and Mr. Dylan on the ride home F C G We had a heart-to-heart about life C G But neither him or me Am Em could decide for ourselves F G If we wanted to outlive that night C G Like two children on the playground Am of the unconfessed souls F C Abandoned by our mothers G and our lovers and our foes C G If only we were brave enough Am Em to live the lives we stole F G What a wonderful world this could be! C

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G Am When as you close your eyes for the big sleep F C G Am F I hope you think of me, yeah C G And if you go, I'll be gone Am F And you'll be left alone C G to live your life, as you please Am F But someday you'll agree C G that I was always meant for you

C G Am So, how many more examples until we brake F C G So how many sacrifices must we make? C because we've all been there G Am once before, and it looks like Em we've returned once more F G So is this the beginning or the end? C G The last two soldiers on the battlefield Am Survivors of the war F C They aim at one another G while their mothers beg the lord C G "If you're listening, I'm missing him Am Em So somehow bring him home, F G How did it come to this?" C G So the soldiers lift their rifles Am And they're aiming at the head F C They think of their first love G before they take their final breath C G And somewhere in the distance Am Em they hear something someone said: F G "How did it come to this?" C G Am F, C G Am F C

G Am When as you close your eyes for the big sleep F C G Am F I hope you think of me, yeah x2

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Point/Counterpoint [Chorus]: E D A E A I've got a gun in my hand but that gun won't cock D A my finger's on the trigger E A but that trigger seems locked D A E A and I can't stop staring at the tick tock clock D A E A and even if I could I would never give up D A E A with a vest on my chest and a bullet in my lung D A E A I can't believe I'm dying with my song unsung D A E A so if and when I die won't you bury me alone? D A cause i'll never get to heaven E A if I'm singing this song A E if there was something wrong D A would you be oh so strong? would you do what it takes E D A to move this hollow life along? I'd like to think I would, E D you know I'd like to think I would A E D A but I guarantee that what you see is not reality E and every time I make a point D she makes a counterpoint A she said it's easy but E D A in the end you'll have no choice E D A and you know that's only just the way it goes E D (you said it right man, that is just the way it goes) A and the days, and the days they seem like forever and the days, and the days they seem like forever but forever isn't ever enough A E I'd like to sing a song D A (please swear you won't be long) i'll try not to be long but E D A I don't want to get this story wrong E there was a kid who never cared D about the little things A don't even bother E D 'cause I'm tired and I'm sick of it A E and every time she makes a point D i'll make a counterpoint A she said it's easy but E D A in the end you'll have no choice

E D A and you know that's only just the way it goes E D E (you said it right man, that is just the way it goes) B D E [Chorus] B D A E D oh, you don't know where I've been B D A E D oh, you don't know what I've seen A E if I did something right D A would you give up this fight? would you say you were wrong and E D A maybe someone else was kind of right I'd like to think you would E D you know I'd like to think you would A but I can't guarantee E D A that what you get is an apology E D jump back to the day we met A E D I never thought that it would end this way A E D if ever I let you down I want to ask of you A E to take it down a notch D A and we can talk it on through and the days, and the days they seem like forever and the days, and the days they seem like forever but forever isn't ever enough A E I'd like to sing a song D A (please swear you won't be long) i'll try not to be long but E D A I don't want to get this story wrong E there was a kid who never cared D about the little things A E D don't even bother 'cause I still don't give a shit A E and every time she makes a point D i'll make a counterpoint A she said it's easy but E D A in the end you'll have no choice E D A and you know that's only just the way it goes E D E (you said it right man, that is just the way it goes) B D E

A so tell me friend how's it gonna end? D when the shit goes down and there's A no one left around to get your back you'll crack, you'll smile D and agree with everything they say A they'll try to tell you that it's all okay but it's not and you're shot and you're bleeding pretty bad D and you can't stop thinking about the things you never had A like a wife and a kid and the things you never did D you're running around you're living a life that's A D empty in the end, my friend B D A oh, you'll take back all you've said B D A oh, when the regrets fill your head B D trust me I've been there before B I would not wish it upon D my greatest enemy, what irony, B once friends, but I find: D A you'll have to learn this lesson on your own D A E A so I waited by the phone but that phone never rang D A E A and I sang so loud so I wouldn't hear the bang D A E A when the bang never came and I never got the call: E A fuck it! thank you! I love you all! D A E A some are going to say that we're doomed to repeat D A E A all our past mistakes great but that's not me D A E A and even if it was I would always disagree D A E because in the end I always get the better (of me)

[Chorus] B D A E D oh, I'll take you where I've been B D A E D oh, I'll show you what I've seen A

[Chorus] B D A E D oh, you don't know where I've been B D A E D oh, you don't know what I've seen

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A E It was the summer of 95 (so what!) B D In the backyard shaving the old plies A Feeling so strong (strong!), E something went wrong (wrong!) B Straight into my finger, D what a stinger, it was so long A E I still that day, B like the day that I said that I swear D "I'll never hurt myself again", A E but it seems that I'm deemed B To be wrong, to be wrong, to be wrong D E Gotta keep holding on... they always played a slow song. A

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E wearing a bulletproof vest A Singin' "My, my, my, D how the time does fly, A When you know you're going to die E by the end of the night." I say hey... A A A A A

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A I still when E we were young and fragile then. B E Noone gave a shit the times were tougher then. A Feeling so good (good!) E cruisin’ the hood (hood!) B Straight into the real world, D the rich kids never understood.

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A But I don't care, E B I can fade away to anywhere Don't stop because you D might get dropped,

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C C/b Am You were gone when we found you F C You were practically surrounded, G you were trapped C E7 But the opposition stalled, Am F their blood ran cold C G When they saw the look C of love in your eyes C Maybe the times we had, E7 they weren't that bad Am And everything else was part of the plan Dm Am We sang: "I don't know G where we go from here" C E7 This is the alpha, omega, Am F beginning and the end C G C And we all just idolize the dead C So you were born, E7 Am and that was a good day Dm Someday you'll die,

Am G and that is a shame C E7 But somewhere in the between Am F was a life of which we all dream C And nothing and no one G C will ever take that away C C

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C C/b Am You had a love and that love had you F C And nothing mattered, G you were fine C E7 And some will complain, Am F they're just bitter, what a shame C They know that loving and losing G C is better than nothing at all C Maybe the times we had, E7 they weren't that bad Am And everything else was part of the plan Dm Am We sang: "I don't know G where we go from here" C E7 This is the anthem, the slogan

Am F the summary of events C G C And we all just idealize the past C So you were born.... C C

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C Yeah, the times we had, E7 they were not that bad Am And everything else, that was part of the plan Dm And we sang, Am G "I don't know where we go from here" C This is the Alpha (Alpha!), E7 Omega (Omega!), Am F beginning and the end! C G C And we all just idolize the dead C So you were born... C E7 And someday soon my friends, Am F this ride will come to an end C G C But we can't just get in line again.

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We Are The Few F G C Dear mr. gepetto: G Am F I hope this finds you well G C G I wrote you this letter Am F C because we miss you here in hell C well now I know it's hard G when you don't know what to think Am and every single smile F G C is a foil and you're waking up G you might try but you won't get by Am until you're crucified F G for all the things you try to do C G well I don't care if you sink or swim Am Em and I don't care how you hold it in F C as long as you don't bother me F G with all the things I don't bother you with C G Am and nine times out of ten you might be right Em but what about that time F you know you're wrong? C F you sing that same song, and everybody smiles G but they'll never get along F I'm trying and I'm trying and I'm trying G and I'm trying to let go: but everybody's going down tonight [Chorus]: C G Am we are the few that won't say nothing right F G C we are the footsteps fading into the night G nobody cares and nobody stares

Am F G with such conviction and I say: C G I never wanted this, no one ever wanted this Am but they gave it to you F G so you might as well be proud of it C G and I don't know where we went wrong Am F G all I know now is I got to do something right C G Am FG C G Am F So come clean no one should have have to live G C with the things you've seen G Am F G but you're living anyway C G so I stop the car and I put her in park Am F G and I step outside (god I hate this part) C when I see what I saw G what I thought was a life Am that was more than a chore F G and just doing what I need to get by C G I don't care if you leave or stay Am but you might as well split Em F because it's not the same as it was C when we said our last goodbye F and if you want the truth: G C I was hoping one of us would away G Am because it'd be much easier then Em F we would all get together and think about when C we were young we were dumb F we were numb but in loveand I'm done so I'm G sending out this letter today F I'm trying and I'm trying

G and I'm trying and I'm trying to let go: but everybody's going down tonight [Chorus] [

C G this has been the best night Am FG of my life x2 C G I could have lost my life Am F and I would have lost my mind G C G but now I'm fine and I find Am that this has been the F G best night of my life] x2 C

G Am F G and as the day fades, no one investigates C G Am F G nobody answers as she calls his name C G Am F G another victim, somewhere in a shallow grave C G Am I want to hold her and tell her: F G it's not your fault C G Am FG na na na...

C G and as the day fades Am F G no one investigates C G Am F G nobody answers as she calls his name C G another victim, Am F G somewhere in a shallow grave C G Am I want to hold her and tell her: F G it's not your fault C G Am FG na na na... C G Am F it's not your fault C G Am FG [Chorus]

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Dear Sergio Am Run, run, run, F all you do is fucking run, G But you'll never run away C from yourself. Am I know it's hard F but you've been there before, Dm and you know you're gonna G be there again. Am F I don't care what the stars may say G because they always C feed their bullshit to me. Am It's kinda sad F how you lost what you had, Dm G and you're never gonna have it again, [Chorus]: C G and so I say: Hey Sergio, Dm you've got to get us out of C G And so I say: Hey Sergio, Dm it's getting kind of hot in Am F G C Am And so I say: Hey

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Am Every other day F you don't care what they say G because they always leave you C two steps behind. Am You try to smile F and it lasts for a while, Dm but they always send you G back to the start. Am Eenie meenie miney mo F they shoot down everyone you know, G and then they leave you there C all alone. Am You wish they'd stop F but they never give up, Dm and you know deep inside G that you're stuck, [Chorus]

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Am Sergio laughed F for the last time today,

G He said It never really bothered me: C Am we all have dues to pay. F Like a man that's cut off at the knee Dm he hobbles, and hobbles G because nothing is free. Am F So wake up, wake up, wake up, G but don't cry C because you'll fuck up your make up, Am F and if you do, you won't get laid, Dm you won't make money, G no you won't get paid. Am F And you act so free, you act so free, G everybody's laughing C because you act so free. Am Well you might fool them, F but you can't fool me Dm with your mindless chatter E like I don't need them, I don't need help, I don't even need to see the end. Am Am

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Sick And Sad C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet. C Em Went to the corner of second and main Am but there was someone there F who mentioned that they hoped C G that it would rain forever, forever F C so they could drown in peace. Em Well I went down to Hodskin P.L. Am but there was nobody to answer F C when I rang that doorbell forever, G F C forever so now I'm sad all time.

C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet.

C Today was the day Em but she threw it all away Am and I could never understand F cause she was never one to play C G by the rules of the game F C her and me we're so the same. Well I try so hard Em and I never give in Am and I am never satisfied F until the day that I win C G against them but I don't care F C I'll follow her to anywhere. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet.

C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like the rain to end. C F Sick and sad again. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet. C G Sometimes I'd like F C to stand on my own two feet.

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Am C It's in the air you breathe F Am G and it's also in the water Am C It's something you can't see, F Am G you've been warned of by your mothers Am C You've had enough deceit, F you know enough to see, Am G the others Am C When you could hardly breathe, F Am G you were wondering why you bothered F G And they gave us seven days Am G to renounce our wicked ways F G Too late to make amends Am G because we both know how this ends

[Chorus]: C F So what will you do when they call your name G C and you're not ready to go? C F Everyone will stare at you G C and tell you what you know C That you're in too deep C/b and you can't quite keep Am your secrets, one and all F G C Am We might just make it after all, on our own F G C We might just make it after all F G But we had one foot on the gas C and one foot in the grave C F Everyone was laughing G C when we said we had it made C F Everyone was laughing G when we said we had it made

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F So do the right thing or do nothing G C (What will you do when they come for you?) C F Or just do what is easier G C (What will you do when they come for you?) C That is what I read, F what I swear they said to me G C Nine times out of ten they lied to me

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G They gave us seven days Am C to renounce our wicked ways F G Too late to make amends Am G because we both know how this ends C Started with six or seven, F

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F We want it, they got it C G They claim we'll die without it Am F C G But something tells me they are wrong

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moved onto eight or nine G (What will you do C when they come for you?) C Nobody seemed to notice, F nobody seemed to mind G C (What will you do when they come for you?)

C Little miss dismissed can't miss F like a detuned radio G I cannot believe you C when you tell me what you know C And nothing will be broken F if your house is made of stone G But you know as I do C it will never be a home Am F We want it, they got it C G They claim we'll die without it Am F But something tells me C G F G they are wrong [Chorus] Am C It's in the air you breathe F Am G and it's also in the water Am C It's something you can't see, F Am G you've been warned of by your mothers Am C You've had enough deceit, F you know enough to see, Am G the others Am C When you could hardly breathe, F Am G you were wondering why you bothered F G And they gave us seven days Am G to renounce our wicked ways F G Too late to make amends Am G because we both know how this ends [Chorus]

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1234 1234 C Am F G [ C You, you try, you try to get by, Am you’re never going to pull it off,

C Years go by, the time it does fly, Am Every single second is a moment in time, F that es oh so quick,

you shouldn't even try. F You're a wet cigarette,

and it seems like nothing, G but when you're looking back,

you’re always second best, G they're never going to give a shit C about anybody but themselves.

well it amounts to everything, C I've got myself, I've got my friends, Am I've got my little family,

So you fight for them to realize, Am there's more to life,

but that's not where it ends, F This one goes out to you,

there's more to you,

it goes out to everyone, G It's in the name of honesty

there's more than meets the eye. F And when you're done the battle's been won, G you sit back, you smile, And this is what you hum, you hum, C Am F G C Am F G]x2

G so you whine, whine, whine, and you say you've had enough. C You say I'm full of shit, that I'm a hypocrite Am I shouldn't talk when I can't take the advice that I give, F Well maybe you're right, but open your eyes: G the main difference here is that I try, try, try C Am F G C Am F G

because life has just begun. C Am F G C Am F G C Look around little brother can you tell me what you see? Am You're a big boy now, so take responsibility, F you never had it hard, but now it's getting tough,

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D Wake up, coughing, tired, G with my face in my hands, Bm staring at the window A G as the sunlight demands action. D All the energy it takes A to close these bedroom blinds. D Wrote this selfish sadness G on a bathroom wall, Bm spent half the span A of some lost culture’s rise and fall, G but I’m as clueless D A as a drooling four year old. Bm G Still hoping I might find the A capacity Bm G to let you know A I know you’re lonely. D F#m Bm So here’s the last call for regrets, A G a final slow dance through D A the days that we all hold on to D F#m Bm Here’s the promises I’ve made,

A G tied too tight to undo. D A An unwrapped gift from me to you. D All the slightly insane G on the 18 North Main, Bm reaching for a small-town A downtown, night rain, G nothing I could say D A could be worth saying anyway today. D Like “Hey, whatever happened G to what’s that guys’ name?”, Bm we get a little older A G and it looks the same: askance. D A Excuse my failing sense of humour.

A a razor blade G and this broken piece of chain A A history left D to rust out in the rain D A Bm F#m G F#m G A (x2) D

Bm G Still hoping I might find the A capacity Bm G to let you know A that we're all lonely D F#m Bm So here’s the last call for regrets, A G a final slow dance through D A the days that we all hold on to D F#m Bm Here’s the promises I’ve made,

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G While rain and thunder drop and roll, C Then stop short of a storm G Leave the air stuck with C this waiting to be born. D* As I stand before D/C# G /a /b C an unresponsive automatic door,

Intro: G G North wind sinks C The fence around a lot full of debris G C Near the corner of Memorial and Me G Where resurrected brick and drywall C lean back into place G There's a terrified C reflection of my face D* D/C# All alone at the gleaming knife display G /a /b C In the army surplus sales. As the dusk descends G D/F# and my inspiration fails. G Cadd9 Ghost-filled discount D/f# G /f# Em parkas, sleeping bags D/f# G Peer at me from the crumpled dark. G Inky bruises punched into C the sky by bolts of light G C And then leak across the body of tonight.

Just another door G D/f# that won't open for me anymore? G Cadd9 D/f# The exit red gets brighter G /f# Em then blinks off, D/f# G Presses me into the crumpled dark.

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The Reasons D How I don't know how to sing, A I can barely play this thing, But you never seem to mind, G And you tell me to fuck off, When I need somebody to, D How you make me laugh so hard, How whole years refuse to stay, A Where we told them to back off, Locked up blindly in a word, G Or a misplaced souvenier, How the past chews on your shoes, D And these memories lick my ear. A I know, F#m G D You might roll your eyes at this, A But I'm so, F#m G Glad that you exist.

And we know who we should love, D But we're never certain how. A I know, F#m G D You might roll your eyes at this, A But I'm so, F#m G D Glad that you exist. A I know, F#m G D You might roll your eyes at this, A But I'm so, F#m G D Glad that you exist. A I know, F#m G D You might roll your eyes at this, A But I'm so, F#m G D Glad that you exist.

D How we waste our prescious time, Marching in the picket line, A That surround those striking hearts, G And the time is never now,

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Ulilities Capo 6th fret A A* Bm D e|--------------------| B|--------------------| G|--6---4---4--2------| D|--7---7---0--0------| A|--0---0-------------| E|--------------------| A A* Got this feeling that today Bm D doesn't like me A A* Oh, the air tastes like flowers Bm D and paint A A* There's a sink full of bottles Bm D and cutlery A A* And the car’s got a list Bm D of complaints F#m E I just wish I were a toothbrush D or a solder gun F#m E A Make me something somebody can use A A* We can wish on the pop Bm D of a light bulb A A* Or those photos lying yellowed Bm D and curled

A A* Lose some boxes near abandoned Bm D electronics A A* In the corners of the basements Bm D of the world F#m E Guess our wishes don't do dishes D or brake repairs F#m E A Make them something somebody can use A A* Bm D Got a face full of ominous weather A A* Smirking smile off a high Bm D pressure ridge A A* Got more faults than the state Bm D of California A A* And the heart is a badly Bm D built bridge F#m E Seems the most I have to offer D doesn't offer much F#m E A Make it something somebody can use F#m E A Make this something somebody can use

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C#m A' Well beauty's just another word F# I'm never certain how to spell

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Go tell the nurse E to turn the T.V back on C#m A' Throw away my misery

E A* B* E A* B* E A* Well, I'm lost, I'm afraid B* Rope tying down a leaky boat E A* To the roof of a car on a road B* in the dark and it's snowing E A* B* If I'm more then it means less Last call for happiness E I'm your dress near the back of A* B* your knees and your slip is showing E A* B* I'm a float in a summer parade E Up the street in the town A* B* that you were born in E A* B* With a girl at the top wearing tulle E And a Miss Somewhere sash, A* B* waving like the queen

A* B* how everyone dies someday E A* And when tomorrow gets here, B* where will yesterday be E And fell asleep A* B* in his brand new winter coat

B' It never meant that much to me . It never sent a get-well card.

C#m A' Buy me a shiny new machine F# that runs on lies and gasoline

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And all those batteries E we stole from smoke alarms C#m A' And disassembles my despair B' It never took me anywhere . It never once bought me a drink

E A* B* And I'm broke, like a bad joke Somebody's uncle told E At a wedding reception A* B* in nineteen seventy-two E A* Where a little boy under a table B* with cake in his hair E A* Stared at the grown-up feet B* as they danced and swayed E And his father laughed A* B* and talked on the long ride home E And his mother laughed A* B* and talked on the long ride home E And he thought about

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Sun In an Empty Room A E B F#m (x2) A E Now that the furniture’s B F#m returning to its goodwill home A E Dishes and last week’s paper, B rumors and elections, F#m crosswords, and an ending war A E the black in our fingers smeared B their prints on every F#m door pulled shut A E now that the last month’s rent B F#m is scheming with the damage deposit A Take this moment to decide E (sun in an empty room) B If we meant it, if we tried F#m (sun in an empty room) A Or felt around for far too much E (sun in an empty room) B For things that accidentally touched F#m (sun in an empty room)

A E The hands that we nearly hold B F#m With pennies for the gst A E The shoulders we lean our shoulders B F#m Into on the subway, mutter an apology A E The shins that we kick beneath B F#m The table, that reflexive cry A E B The faces we meet one awkward beat F#m Too long and terrified A Know the things we need to say E (sun in an empty room) B And said already anyways F#m (sun in an empty room) A On parallelograms of light E (sun in an empty room) B On walls that we repainted white F#m (sun in an empty room)

A Sun B Sun A Sun B Sun A Sun B Sun A Sun B Sun

E in an empty room F#m in an empty room E in an empty room F#m in an empty room E in an empty room F#m in an empty room E in an empty room F#m in an empty room

A Take eight minutes and divide E (sun in an empty room) B By ninety million lonely miles F#m (sun in an empty room) A Watch the shadow cross the floor E (sun in an empty room) B We don’t live here anymore F#m (sun in an empty room) A E B F#m (x2)

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My Favourite Chords G Cadd9 They're tearing up streets again. D7 D They're building a new hotel. G Cadd9 The Mayor's out killing kids D7 D to keep taxes down, G Cadd9 and me and my anger sit D7 D folding a paper bird, G Cadd9 letting the curtains turn D7 D to beating wings. Cadd9 Wish I had a socket-set G G/F# Em7 to dismantle this morning. Cadd9 And just one pair of clean socks. D7 D And a photo of you. G Cadd9 When you get off work tonight, D7 D meet me at the construction site, G Cadd9 and we'll write some notes to tape D7 D to the heavy machines, G Cadd9 like "We hope they treat you well. D7 D Hope you don't work too hard. G Cadd9 We hope you get to be D7 D happy sometimes".

Cadd9 Bring your swiss-army knife, G G/F# Em7 and a bottle of something, Cadd9 and I'll bring some spraypaint D7 D and a new deck of cards. G Cadd9 Hey I found the safest place D7 D to keep all our tenderness. G Cadd9 Keep all our bad ideas. D7 D Keep all our hope. G Cadd9 It's here in the smallest bones, D7 D the feet and the inner-ear. G Cadd9 It's such an enormous thing D7 D to walk and to listen. Cadd9 I'd like to fall asleep G G/F# Em7 to the beat of you breathing Cadd9 in a room near a truckstop D7 D on a highway somewhere. G Cadd9 D7 D You are a radio, You are an open door G Cadd9 I am a faulty string D7 D of blue christmas lights. G Cadd9 You swim through frequencies. D7 D You let that stranger in, G Cadd9 as I'm blinking off and on

D7 D and off again. Cadd9 We've got a lot of time. G G/F# Em7 Or maybe we don't, Cadd9 but I'd like to think so, D7 D so let me pretend. G Cadd9 These are my favourite chords. D7 D I know you like them too. G Cadd9 When I get a new guitar, D7 D you can have this one G Cadd9 and sing me a lullaby. D7 D Sing me the alphabet. G Cadd9 D7 D Sing me a story I haven't heard yet.

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Watermark A E I count to three and grin. F#m You smile and let me in D We sit and watch the wall you painted purple, A E Speech will spill on space. F#m Our little cups of grace. D But pauses rattle on about F#m the way that you cut the snow-fence, G#m braved the blood, A D the metal of those hearts F#m that you always end up G#m A pressing your tongue to. F#m G#m How your body still re things A D you told it to forget. F#m G#m How those furious affections A followed you, A E I've got this store-bought way F#m of saying I'm okay, D and you learned how to cry in total silence.

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A E F#m C A Hold on.

to disappoint, F#m G#m but the airport's always almost empty A D this time of the year, F#m so let's go play G#m A on a baggage carousel F#m G#m Set our watches forward A D like we're just arriving here F#m from a past we left G#m A in a place we knew too well. Knew too well. Knew too well. A C#m B C#m E D A E Hold on to the corners of today, F#m and we'll fold it up D to save until it's needed. A E Stand still. Let me scrub F#m that brackish line that you got D when something rose and then receded.

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Manifest C# I want to call requests G# through heating-vents, F# And hear them answered C# with a whispered, "no." C# To crack the code of muscle, G# slacken, tense. F# Let every second step C# in boots on snow C# Complete you name G# with accents I can't place, F# That stumble where C# the syllables combine. C# Take depositions G# from a stranger's face. F# C# Paint every insignificance a sign. D#m So tell me nothing matters, G# less or more. C# F# Say, "whatever we think actions are, D#m We'll never know G# what anything was for."

C# If "near is just as far away as C# And I'm permitted one act I can F# I choose to sit here C# next to you and wave.

F# far," G# save,

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One Great City

D/f# Cadd9 The same mood every day

D/f# Cadd9 G x2 D/f# Cadd9 Late afternoon another day G is nearly done D/f# Cadd9 A darker grey is breaking through G a lighter one D/f# Cadd9 A thousand sharpened elbows G in the underground D/f# Cadd9 That hollow hurried sound Em D/f# Cadd9 of feet on polished floor Em D/f# Cadd9 And in the dollar store Em D/f# A the clerk is clo And counting loonies Cadd9 trying not to say G I hate Winnipeg D/f# Cadd9 The driver checks the mirror G seven minutes late D/f# The crowded riders' Cadd9 G restlessness enunciates D/f# The guess who suck, Cadd9 G the jets were lousy anyway

Em D/f# Cadd9 And in the turning lane Em D/f# Cadd9 Someone's stalled again Em D/f# A He's talking to himself And hears the price of gas Cadd9 repeat his phrase G I hate Winnipeg D/f# Cadd9 G D/f# Cadd9 Em D/f# Cadd9 Up above us all, Em D/f# Cadd9 Leaning into sky Em D/f# Cadd9 Our golden business boy Em D/f# Cadd9 Will watch the north end die Em D/f# A And sing 'I love this town' Then let his arching Cadd9 wrecking ball proclaim: D/f# G "I...hate...Winnipeg"

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FRANK TURNER

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I Still Believe C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Am Friends and Romans Countrymen C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Am Punks and skins and journeymen C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, G My sisters and my bretheren F G The time is coming near C Come Ye, Come Ye, Am to soulless corporate circus tops C Come Ye, Come Ye, Am to toilets circuit touring snobs C Come Ye, Come Ye, G to bedrooms bars and bunker squats F G The sound is ringing clear F Now who'd have thought, that after C something as simple as C/B Am rock n roll would save us all F Now who'd have thought, that after C Am C Am it was rock n roll. C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Am now, anybody could take this stage C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Am and make miracles for minimum wage

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C Hear Ye, Hear Ye, G these folk songs for the modern age F G Will hold us us in their arms C Right here, right now, Am Elvis brings his children home C Right here, right now, Am You never have to feel alone C Right here, right now, G Teenage kicks and Gramaphones F G We hold, them in our hearts

Am I Still Believe! (I Still Believe!) Em F That everyone, can find a song

F Now who'd have thought, that after C something as simple as C/B Am rock n roll would save us all F Now who'd have thought, that after C it was rock n roll.

F G Now who'd have thought, that after all, C something as simple as rock n C/B Am roll would save us all F G Now who'd have thought, that after all F G Something so simple, something so small F G Now who'd have thought, that after all, C it was rock n roll.

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for every time they've lost D and every time they've won. G So just folks Em we're not just saving lives, Am we're saving souls and G C Am we're having fun C

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Am I Still Believe! (I Still Believe!) Em F In all the saints, yeah in Jerry Lee C Em and in Johnny and all the greats Am I Still Believe! (I Still Believe!) Em F In the sound, that has the power C Em to raise a temple and tear it down Am I Still believe! (I Still Believe!) Em F In the need, for Guitar and drums C Em and desperate poetry

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The District Sleeps Alone Tonight By The Postal Service

Capo on 3rd C F Am C F Am C F Am Smeared black ink, C F Am Your palms are sweaty, And I'm barely listening, C F Am To last demands, C F I'm staring at the asphalt wondering Am what's buried underneath, F C G Where I am, F C G C F Am I'll wear my badge, C A vinyl sticker F with big block letters, Am Adherent to my chest, C F Am That tells you where to stand, C F I am a visitor here, Am I am not permanent, C F Am And the only thing, C F Am Keeping me dry is,

F C You seem so out of context, G In this gaudy apartment complex, F C A stranger with your door key, G Explaining that I'm just visiting, F C And I am finally seeing, G How I was the one worth leaving, F C G I was the one worth leaving, F C G The district sleeps alone tonight, After the bars turn out their lights, F C And send the autos swerving, G Into the loneliest evening, F C And I am finally seeing, G How I was the one worth leaving, F C G F C G I was the one worth leaving, I was the one worth leaving, F C G

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Nashville Tennessee G* G* G* G* From the heart of the Southern Downs, C C/b D G* to the North-East London reservoirs, G* From the start, G* the land scaped my sound, C C/b D G* before I'd ever been to America. C D And if I knew anybody G D C who played pedal steel guitar, C D I would get them in my band G D C and then my band would get real far, C B7 But I was raised in middle England, Em D C and not in Nashville Tennessee, C D G* And the only person in my band is me. G* G* A simple scale on an old guitar, C C/b D G* and a punk rock sense of honesty. G* G* I cannot fail well I've come this far C C/b with no knowledge of D G* mid-west geography. C D And if I knew anywhere where I could G D C drive in a straight line

C D For hours through the desert, G D C I'd drive for hours at a time. C B7 But I was raised in middle England, Em D C not in Nashville Tennessee, C D G* And the only person in this car is me

C D All the city roads are twisted G D C and I do not own a car. C B7 I was raised in middle England, Em D C and not in Nashville Tennessee, C D G* And the only thing I'm offering is me

Am C G And yes I'm in four-four time, D Am and yes I use cheap cheap rhymes, C G* But I try to make a sound my own. Am C G I know I don't break new ground, D Am many have travelled this sound, C G* But I try to make it sound like home. G* G* C C/b D D/f# G G Well I've been to Texas state, G I didn't think it was all that fucking great, C D And Nebraska is just a bunch of songs Em Holloway and Hampshire's B7 where I belong C D And I don't know anybody G D C who plays pedal steel guitar,

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The Fastest Way Back Home G I should have seen you were coming, I should have been prepared. Cadd9 After all, getting half of D G what you wish for isn't so rare. But still I wasn't ready, you took my by surprise, Cadd9 D you brought a light to my dark G like a word from the wise Bm C Weather wears the mountains Am D right down into the sea, B7 Em so I will stand in the rain D C until I am clean G We fell in love in the summer, when the skies were clear, Cadd9 D but I'm still wearing my coat G from winter last year I need to set my house in order, confess and cover my sins. Cadd9 D I need to make a home for you G before inviting you in

Bm C Weather wears the mountains Am D right down into the sea, B7 Em so I will stand in the rain D C until I am clean Bm C Rivers carve the country, Am D a landscape shaped by a stream, B7 Em so I will swim in the river D C as long as you need. Em C Darling oh my darling D G you know that everything that I do Em is to try and make me C G good enough for you Em C Darling oh my darling D G you know that everywhere that I go, Em I'm just trying to find C G the fastest way back home. F C G F C D back home F

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Front Crawl

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D I will set out for your island home

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When my front crawl's up to scratch G D And when I've written my arrival song A11 G I'm working on it now D It's almost done

D D If I was to walk from where I am To where you are right now G I'd have to cross eight borders D and three seas A11 But that might show you G D what you meant to me D If I was to make this journey long I'd have to learn to swim G D Much better than my doggy paddle is A11 But then you might G D believe me when I say Bm G The time will come when you and I D A11 Are not so far away D And I won't be singing G D this song on that day

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Once We Were Anarchists G Demonstrations got boring, Csus2 Well it was obvious that the government was ignoring us Em7 It's hard to drag yourself through empty streets F6s2 On an empty stomach with no sleep G The shortcomings got clearer Csus2 As the price we paid got dearer and dearer Em7 It's supposed to be a case of give and take F6s2 Well I was feeling the give and making the mistake Am And I've heard it said F G the unexamined life, Am F Isn't much worth living, G and I'm sure they're right Am F But it's hard to keep on fighting G the good fight Am F When no one else seems bothered D Yeah, when no one's on your side [Chorus]: C Because I'm young enough D to be all pissed off G C But I'm old enough to be jaded C I'm at the age D where I want things to change

Bm C But with age my hopes have faded C I'm young and bored D of being young and bored B7 If I was old I could say Em Dsus4 I've seen it all before C D G In short; I'm tired of giving a shit G I've got friends who are bankers Csus2 And it's an easy rhyme to call them wankers Em7 But I must say I envy the way that they live F6s2 And it's all; it's all take and no give G Well I'm playing the lone ranger Csus2 Riding to the rescue of six billion strangers Em7 Armed with only an original song F6s2 And a sense that something's wrong C G/B And I must it that I'm tired Am G7 of saying no, all the time C Em7 Well I must it that I don't really Fmaj7 G7 know what would be right C And if politics, B7 is helping other people Em Dsus4 C Then my political career is pretty fucked C Because the truth is

D G I don't like people all that much G The times they aren't a-changing Csus2 Yeah England's still shit, and it's still raining Em7 And everybody's jaded and tired and bored F6s2 And no one lifts a finger, because G It's just not in our culture Csus2 Our culture is carrion and we're all vultures Em7 And no one seems bothered by the state of play F6s2 It seems that the stench is with us to stay Am F G So I had a go, I tried examining life Am F It wasn't much worth living G I guess they're right Am And I'm tired of fighting F G the fight that's not my fight Am F So is everybody else, D we're all on the same side. [Chorus] C D ....In short; I'm tired C D And in short; I'm probably fired C D If the revolution doesn't want me, G I don't give a shit.

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Romantic Fatigue A Dsus2 F#m7 E A I have to it that Dsus2 I am one of the many F#m7 who thought that a guitar E would win him a lady A My teenage years, Dsus2 they were a feminine drought, F#m7 E and I thought that a serenade would help out A It seemed to be working Dsus2 for a couple of years F#m7 I wrote a few songs and they E wrought a few tears A But when I hit my twenties, Dsus2 it ran out of steam. F#m7 I seemed to be suffering E from romantic fatigue F#m Dsus2 And I never know which song Asus2 E7 I should play her, each melody is F#m Dsus2 Bm E7 A memory of a not-forgotten failure Dsus2 E F#m So when I get out my guitar tonight,

E7 Dsus2 to do what I do, E7 I probably didn't write this song for you A Dsus2 F#m7 E A And so as I have mentioned, Dsus2 the shelf-life was short F#m7 the scheme wasn't working, E despite what I thought A The ladies all left me Dsus2 F#m7 alone in the end, so I had to

F#m Dsus2 A E A memory of a not-forgotten failure Dsus2 E F#m So when I get out my guitar tonight, E7 Dsus2 to do what I do, E7 I probably didn't write this song Dsus2 E7 No I certainly didn't write this song Dsus2 No I never, E/G# Dsus2 never wrote a song for you

switch the names around E and then sing it again Bm E7 A Every life-long-love, E/G# F#m E7 and every best friend Bm E7 A A7 Slipped away into the past Bm E7 A Take my words with caution, E/G# F#m E7 Dsus2 I can't pretend that you're the first Dsus2/C# Dsus2/B Dsus E You won't be the last F#m Dsus2 And I never know which song A E I should play her, each melody is

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Casanova Lament C Fmaj7 I check that I've got all my things Am7 C/b before I leave the house Am Because when I'm gone I'm never coming back Em I'm not being melodramatic, it's just G C I neither have your number or a key C Fmaj7 An evening spent pretending Am7 C/b that we're just becoming friends Am Or this goes any further than going back Em I'm not being pessimistic, it's just G C you and I were never meant to be F It isn't love Em It isn't love G It isn't love C C/b Am But every time I kind of wish it was F G C Every time I kind of wish it was C Fmaj7 I've picked up this silly habit Am7 C/b in the last few years of going out Am In the evening with my friends

Em G Of packing a spare T-shirt in my bag C in case I do not make it home. C Fmaj7 It's pathetic and I know it, but the Am7 C/b truth is there've been mornings Am I've proved prudent taking toothpaste to the pub. Em But that's precious little comfort G against the knowledge C of the person I've become. F It isn't love Em It isn't love G It isn't love C C/b Am But every time I kind of wish it was F G C Every time I kind of wish it was F And I can see that in G C your eyes you wish it was, F G But every time I leave you C Am just because F It isn't love, G It isn't love, C It isn't love.

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Dan's Song G#m* A* B* C#m* F#m* C#m E* B7* e|--0---0--0---0----0----4--0---0--| B|--0---5--7---0----0----5--0---0--| G|--4---6--8---9----2----6--9---2--| D|--6---7--9---11---4----6--9---1--| A|--6---7--9---11---4----4--7---2--| E|--0---0--0---0----0-------0------| E Me and my friend dan G#m* are going to get some beers A* and then we're going to go down B* E to the park and drink them there E We'll bask out in the sun G#m* bring a guitar and play some songs A* B* call up our friends and invite them C#m* G#m* out to share what might be A* E the last weekend of the summer F#m* because september's getting colder C#m as it goes A* B* and we haven't done enough E* G#m* C#m of this simple kind of stuff A this year, it's clear B7* E we're getting older and it shows E Work weeks makes us weary now G#m* and school's a distant memory

A* B* and it's easy to ask questions E of ourselves E like; where it is we're going now G#m* and what we have to show for all the A* B* C#m* sunny days shut up in the shells of G#m* expectations of our A* E ultimate directions F#m* and the stations that we C#m should have reached by now A* B* When we haven't read the script E* G#m* C#m and our tender wings are clipped A and we're scared we might be B7* E letting someone down

A* B* setting in our ways, C#m* G#m* but now it's time to decide A* E now it's time to draw a line F#m* in the sand and ask what's more important C#m A* than days like today? B* so grab some beers, E* G#m* C#m call your friends and meet us here, A B7* In the summer park with me E B7* E and my friend Dan

E B* A* F#m E B* A* G#m* F#m* G#m* F#m* E So we listen to these heartbreak songs, when G#m* nothing's really wrong A* B* and we smile when we're asked E and say we're fine E But we're drifting through our middle days, G#m* creeping into middle age

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Isabel A So now the years are rolling by It's not long since you and I F#m Could have been train drivers D E A And astronauts And now we're stuck in furnished ruts But yet the thing that really cuts F#m Is that we can't D E A How we got caught. Filtered air, computer screens muffled sighs and might-have-beens F#m count your blessings, then breathe D E A and count to ten. and though it doesn't often show we are scared because we know F#m that our forefathers were farmers D E F#m and fishermen E D And so the world has changed E F#m Worse or better's hard to tell E D But my hope remains E A Within the arms of Isabel F#m D E A

A so now our calloused hands once told a story honest as it’s old F#m D E A of sowing seeds and setting sail but now our hands are soft and weak and working seven days a week F#m at these salvations schemes D E F#m that are bound to fail

E F#m Will damn us into hell E D And so the time will come E F#m When all must save themselves E D and I will save my soul E within the arms of Isabel A F#m D E x2

E D And so the world has changed E F#m Worse or better's hard to tell E D But my hope remains E Within the arms of Isabel Bm And I'll it that I am scared A E of what I don't understand Bm Darling if you're there A E Gentle voice and soothing hands Bm To quiet my despair A E Bm To shore up all my plans D Darling if you're there F#m E D And so the world has changed E F#m and I must change as well E D The machines we’ve made

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The Road [Chorus]: Am C to the east to the east G /G# Am the road beneath my feet Am/G Am C to the west to the west G /G# Am I haven't got there yet Am/B C G and to the north to the north F C never to be caught F C to the south to the south G /G# Am my time is running out Am Em ever since my childhood F G I've been scared I've been afraid C G of being trapped by circumstance F D/f# and staying in one place Am Em so I always keep a small bag F G full of clothes carefully stored C G somewhere secret somewhere safe F G Am and somewhere close to the door Am Em well I've travelled many countries F G I've washed my feet in many seas C G I've drunk with drifters in vienna F D/f# and with punks in old dc

Am Em and I've driven across deserts F G driven by the irony C G that only being shackled to the road F G Am could ever I be free

F G theres no time for you to waste C G you wont find your precious answers F D/f# now, by staying in one place F D/f# yeah by giving up the chase

[Chorus] Am Em I've felt old before my time F G but now I keep the age away C G by burning up the miles F D/f# and yeah by filling up my days Am Em and the nights a thousand nights F G I've played and a thousand more to go C before I take a breath G and steal myself F G Am for the next one thousand shows

[Chorus] F C to the south to the south G /G# Am my time is running out F I face the F I face the G the horizon F I face the F I face the G the horizon

C G Am horizon everywhere I go C horizon, Am is my home C G Am horizon everywhere I go C horizon, /G# Am is my home

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Am G yes so saddle up your horses now F G and keep your powder dry C cause the truth is G you won't be here long F G yeah soon your going to die Am G to the heart to the heart

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Try This At Home G G Let's inherit the earth Cadd9 because no-one else is taking it G come on do your worst D before the moment's ed G in bedrooms across england Cadd9 and all the western world G there's posters and there's magazines D D7 but the music isn't ours C Because we write love songs in C G D We do politis in G C We sing songs about our friends Em D In E minor C so tear down the stars now, G D and take up your guitars C D G D come on folks and try this at home G lets stop waiting around Cadd9 for someone to patronize us G lets hammer out a sound

G forget about the haircuts Cadd9 the stupid skinny jeans G the stampedes and the irony, D D7 the media fed scenes C Because we write love songs in C G D We do politis in G C We sing songs about our friends Em D In E minor C so tear down the stars now, G D and take up your guitars C D come on folks and try this at home Em D because the only thing that punk rock C G should ever really mean Am G is not sitting round and waiting C D for the lights to go green Em D and not thinking that you're better C G cause you're stood up on a stage Am G if you're oh so fucking different C D then who cares what you have to say

Am because there's no such thing as rock stars, there's just D people who play music C C/b and some of them are just like us G and some of them are dicks Am so quick, turn off your stereo, D pick up your pen and papper C yeah you could do much better than some half arsed, skinny, D English country singer C Because we write love songs in C G D We do politis in G C We sing songs about our friends Em D In E minor C so tear down the stars now, G D and take up your guitars C D C G come on folks and try this at home

D that speaks of where we've been

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I Really Don't Care What You Did On Your Gap Year D D/A We were only supposed D D/A to go out for the night, D D/A But it's been a few hours now D since it got light A7 Gm7 We're a mess, and the worst part D D/A D D/A is we couldn't care less. D D/A There's water in the ash-tray D D/A and ash in the sink, D D/A The carpet's mostly soaking, D but there's nothing to drink A7 Gm7 We're a state, and we're starting D to regret staying awake. G F# Bm And I'll pay for my sins A Em when I get paid, G F# Bm I'll stop talking to girls A Em when I get laid. G F# I should have gone home Bm A Em when I could, but I stayed. G A D But then I never was the clever one D D/A We were only supposed D D/A to go out for the night, D D/A I did my best to go home

D but in the end I lost the fight A7 with myself Gm7 To be honest I was hoping D I'd go home with someone else. D And right about now D I should be starting my day, D But instead I am sat here D downing the dregs of yesterday, A7 Gm7 All the while trying to prop up D both ends of my smile. G F# Bm And I'll pay for my sins A Em when I get paid, G F# Bm I'll stop talking to girls A Em when I get laid. G F# I should have gone home Bm A Em when I could, but I stayed. G A But then I never was the clever one. C G But always the one to not D C see that I'm done and G A D D7 I need to go home and get to sleep, C G Always the last to see D C the moment has ed and G A Bm E I need to it my defeat. G A And I'm lonely - there, I said it. G A I'm lonely, but it's hard to it it

D C G When everbody thinks that you're fine A D all the time and you're not. D So we were only supposed to go out for the night... But who am I kidding? G Try as I might I can't stop Em Until I've squeezed out A D D7 every last drop

G/F#

G F# Bm And I'll pay for my sins A G when I get paid G/F# Em A But I don't have a penny to my name. G F# Bm I'll stop talking to girls A G when I get laid G/F# Em A But I haven't had a shower for days. G F# I should've gone home Bm E when I could but I stayed, G A And so I stay up alone, G A And set off on my own G To the station where A7 D I catch the first train.

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Love, Ire And Song

D/A D/E and left to die by the wayside

D let's be heroes, let's be martyrs,

D D/A D/f# D D/G D/B A

Em But it was worse when we turned G Bm to the kids on the left and got let down again A by some poor excuse for protest Em Yeah by idiot fucking hippies G in fifty different factions Bm Who are locked inside some kind A of 60's battle re-enactment G Em G And I hung-up my banner in disgust A G A and I head for the door

let's be radical thinkers G Who never have to test drive A the least of their dreams Em Let's divide up the world G into the damned and safe Bm And then ride to the valleys A like the old light brigade Em And straighten our backs G and we won't be afraid Bm And they'll celebrate our deaths A with a national parade

D D/A Well a teacher of mine once told me D/f# D That life was just a list D/G D/B of disappointments and defeats D/A D/E And you could only do your best, D D/A And I said "That's a fucking cop-out, D/f# D you're just washed up and your tired, D/G D/B and when I get to your age well, D/A D/E I won't be such a coward" Em But these days I sit at home, G known to shout at my TV Bm And Punk Rock didn't live up A to what I hoped that it could be Em And all the things that I believed G with all my heart when I was young Bm Are just coasters for beers A and clean surfaces for drugs G Em And I packed all my pamphlets with G A D my bibles at the back of the shelf D G A D G A Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit D/G D/B When you realised your parents D/A D/E had let the world all go to shit D D/A And that the values and ideals D/f# D for which many had fought and died D/G D/B Had been killed off in the committees

D A Oh but once we were young, Bm G and we were crass enough to care Em A But I guess you live and learn, Em A we won't make that mistake again, no D A Oh but surely just for one day, Bm G we could fight and we could win Em And if only for a little while, A Em A we could insist on the impossible Bm Well we've been a good few hours drinking A So I'm going to say what everyone's thinking G D If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking Em A D Then we might as well have a parade Bm Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning A And a better plan's yet to get forming G D Then where's the harm spending an evening Em A G A In manning the old barricades, D so come on old friends to the streets, G A Let's be 1905 but not 1917,

D A So come on let's be young, Bm G let's be crass enough to care Em A Let's refuse to live and learn, Em A lets make all our mistakes again, yes D A And then darling, just for one day, Bm G yeah, we can fight and we can win Em A And if only for a little while, Em A we could insist on the impossible D D/A Leave the mourning to the morning D/f# D Yeah pain can be killed D/G D/B With aspirin tablets D/A D/E and vitamin pills D D/A But memories of hope, D/f# D and glorious defeat D/G A D Are a little bit harder to beat

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Long Live The Queen A I was sipping on a Whiskey when I got the call F#m Yeah my friend Lex was lying in the hospital Bm She'd been pretty sick for about half the year E But it seems liked this time the end was drawing near A So dropped my plans and jumped the next London train F#m I found her laid up and in a lot of pain Bm Her eyes met mine and then I understood E That the weather forecast E7 wasn't looking too good A So I sat and spun her stories for a little while F#m Tried to raise her mood and tried to raise a smile Bm But she silenced all my rambling with a shake of her head E Drew me close and listen E7 this is what she said now [Chorus]: A F#m Bm "You'll live to dance another day, E it's just now you'll have to dance,

E7 for the two of us, A F#m Bm so stop looking so damn depressed E and sing with all your heart that the Queen is dead" A Yeah she told me she was sick of all the hospital food F#m And of doctors, distant relatives, draining her blood Bm She said "I know I'm dying, but I'm not finished just yet, E I am dying for a drink and for a cigarette" A So we hatched a plan to book ourselves a cheap hotel F#m In the centre of the City and to raise some Hell Bm They waste to all the clubs and then E when everyone else is long asleep E7 We know we're good and done [Chorus] D F#m E ...that the Queen is dead" And South London's D F#m E not the same anymore D F#m E The Queen is dead, D and the last of the great

F#m E has finally gone to bed A Well I was working on some words when Sarah called me up F#m She said that Lex had gone asleep and wasn't waking up Bm And even though I knew that there was nothing to be done E I felt bad for not being there E7 and now, well, she was gone A So I tried to think what Lex would want me to do F#m At times like this when I was feeling blue Bm So I gathered up some friends to spread the sad sad news E And we headed to the City E7 for a drink or two And we sang A F#m Bm "We live to dance another day, E it's just now we have to dance E7 for one more of us, A F#m Bm so stop looking so damn depressed, E and sing with all our hearts, D long live the Queen"

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Photosynthesis G Well I guess I should confess that I am starting to get old D All the latest music fads all ed me by and left me cold Am All the kids are talking slang G I won't pretend to understand D All my friends are getting married, A D mortgages and pension plans G And it's obvious my angry, adolescent days are done D And I'm happy and I'm settled in the person I've become Am But that doesn't mean I'm settled up G and sitting out the game A Time may change alot D but some things they stay the same Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G D And most of all I will not grow up Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G D And most of all yeah I won't grow up

G Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems D And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams Am All your friends and peers and family G solemnly tell you you will D Have to grow up be an adult A D yeah be bored and unfulfilled G Oh and no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great D About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate Am About meekly shuffling down G the path of mediocrity A Well if that's your road then take it D but it's not the road for me Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G D And most of all I will not grow up Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G A And most of all yeah I won't grow up Bm A And if all you ever do with your life

G D Is photosynthesize G/F# Then you deserve every hour Em of your sleepless nights A7 That you waste wondering D when you're gonna die G D Am G A D Em G D Now I'll play and you sing A The perfect way G D for the evening to begin Em G D Now I'll play and you sing A The perfect way G D for the evening to begin Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G D And most of all yeah I won't grow up Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G D And most of all I will not grow up Em And I won't sit down G D And I won't shut up A G A D And most of all I will not grow up

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The Real Damage G I woke up on a sofa in an unfamiliar house, C Surrounded by sleeping folks G I didn't know D On failing to find my friends Am C G I decided it was clearly time to go G D G G So I made my way out of the door as quietly as I could C There was no one there G I knew to say goodbye, D Squinting in the sadly Am sobering sunshine C G Of the Sunday morning light [Chorus]: C I started the night with all my friends Am and I ended up alone G D Oh yes, I started out so happy C now I'm hung over and down D it was about then that I realised

Am I was halfway through C G the best years of my life G D G G I scanned the local landmarks, trying to find out where I was C G And maybe even find a bus back home D I was longing for a shower, Am and for clean sheets C G And a charger for my phone

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D Well the whole thing's C far from perfect, Am C D But I've yet to figure out C a better way to spend my time. G Too many suits and dirty looks

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made me rack my brains C G The real damage started to sink in D It had been quite a heavy weekend Am But I could just about C G where I'd been.

G Suddenly it hit me

C I started the night

that I got paid this Friday last C And so I rifled through my pockets G for some change D But all I found was a packet Am of broken cigarettes C G And a sinking sense of shame

with all my friends Am and I ended up alone G D Oh yes, I started out so happy C now I'm hung over and down D I stood on a street corner Am C and I felt a little sick D It was about then that I realized Am I was halfway through C G The first day of the week

[Chorus] C D ...the best years of my life I had to ask myself well, G D C Is it really worth it? G D C Is any of this worth it?

G D G D G

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A You're not as messed up

Bm E Cos it's a lovely sunny day A But you hide yourself away F#m You've only got yourself to blame

as you think you are

A Get up and get down and get outside

Reasons Not To Be An Asshole

Your self-absorption makes you messier Just settle down and you F#m will feel a whole lot better Deep down you're just D E A like everybody else She's not as pretty as she thinks she is Just picture her after she's had kids I bet she sits at home F#m and listens to The Smiths Deep down she's just D E A like everybody else [Chorus]: Bm E So why are you sat at home? A You're not designed to be alone F#m You just got used to saying "no" So get up and get down and get outside

So she fell for horoscopes, D fake healing and karma She's so wrapped up Bm in her invisible Lama E She'll never grow into herself

A He's not as clever

And it's OK thinking me

as he likes to think

G and all my friends are just wasters

He's crap at dancing,

But saying that I can still see D through her heirs and graces

F#m yeah and he can't hold his drink

I bet she's scared

He's just ambitious with his arguing

I'm angry, underweight

Bm her life won't leave any traces E Caught up like everyone else D That's not the point anyway E Oh darling, I felt D compelled to call you up to say...

and sketching out

[Chorus]

I'm building bonfires F#m on my vanities and doubts D E A To get warm just like everybody else

N/C Get up and get down and get outside Get up and get down and get outside D E Get up and get down and get outside F#m Bm Get up and get down and get outside D E Get up and get down and get outside A

Deep down he's just D E A like everybody else I'm not as awesome as this song makes out

[Chorus] E Amy thinks that life G is lacking in drama

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I Knew Prufrock Before He Became Famous A Let's begin at the beginning, A2 we're lovers and we're losers G#* We're heroes and we're pioneers, Dsus2 we're beggars and we're choosers E Skirting 'round the edges F#m of the ideal demographic G#* We're almost on the guest list, Dsus2 but we're always stuck in traffic A We've watched our close associates, A2 Often play their parts G#* Chatting up the 'it' girls, Dsus2 And they're tearing up the charts E While we were paying with coppers F#m to get our rounds in at the bar G#* We're the C team, we're the almost Dsus2 famous old friends of the stars F#m

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A Justin is the last A2 great romantic poet G#* He's the only one among us Dsus2 who is ever gonna' make it E We planned the revolution

F#m from a cheap Southampton bistro G#* I don't details, but Dsus2 there were English boys with Banjos A Jay is our St George A2 and he's standing on a wooden chair G#* And he sings songs and he slays dragons Dsus2 and he's losing all his hair E And Adam is the resurrected F#m spirit of Gram Parsons G#* In plaid instead of Rhinestone Dsus2 and living in South London A And no one's really clear A2 about Tommy's job description G#* But it's pretty clear he's vital Dsus2 to the whole damn operation E And Dave Danger smiles at strangers, F#m Tre's the safest girl I know G#* And sullen hearts will scamper off Dsus G to victory in the City we call home F#m And we won't change our ways, E we will proud remain, G#* when the glory fades, Dsus2 when the glory fades A Yeah I am sick and tired of people

A2 who are living on the B-list G#* Yeah they're waiting to be famous, Dsus2 and they're wondering why they do this E And I know I'm not the one F#m who is habitually optimistic G#* But I'm the one who's got the Dsus2 microphone here so just this A Yeah, well life is about love, A2 lost minutes and lost evening G#* About fire in our bellies Dsus2 and about furtive little feelings E And the aching amplitudes F#m that set our needles all a-flickering G#* And they help us with ing Dsus2 that the only thing A Asus4 G# that's left to do is live Dsus2 yeah the only thing that's left to do is A A2 live, after all the loving and the losing, G#* after all the heroes and the pioneers Dsus2 The only thing that's left to do E A is get another round in at the bar.

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Substitute Am The first girl that I fell D for was a fair and faithful fighter G She smouldered with a will Am to save the world I did my best to help her, D yeah I stood shoulder to shoulder G On the front lines with Am my visionary girl Dm I wish that she had cared for me G But in the end her ideologies C C/b Am Occupied the fortress of her heart Dm I wrote her 15 songs, G but still we had to part F Fm And if music was the food of love C C/b Am Am/G Then I'd be a fat romantic slob F F/G Well music, it's my substitute C for love Am The last girl that I loved D she was a low and lusty liar

G She set my heart on fire, Am but made me choke Am Her beauty was a sight to see, D but she didn't save it all for me G I found other fires Am by following the smoke Dm I wish that she had either G cared for me or let be me C C/b But she chased me from my mind Am and from my home Dm I wrote her 16 songs, G but I ended up alone

Am G F But only one or two inside my head Dm These days I cuddle up C G to my guitar instead F Fm But oh, what I would give, C C/b not to stumble but to really Am Am/G fall in love F And I could substitute my singing for the sound of someone G C sleeping next to me

F And if love is really Fm all that we need C C/b Then even all my singing Am Am/G is never gonna save me F F/G Well music, it's my substitute C for love Am Well I've had many G F C different girls inside my bed

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S:t Christopher Is Coming Home C C C C

F F F F

C G | G | C G | C G C C/b|

Am F C Monday morning, comes a crawling in Em From another weekend Am choked with cigarettes and sin F I've been busy, so much lately C That every time Em I get some time to spend Am I end up drunk or sleeping in F And I miss you, you're busy too C We call each other up, Em when we're messed up Am And say we'll meet in the New Year F But it's perfectly clear C we'll do no such thing, G Come the spring C F When the evening casts it's shadows C G on the corners of my days C And I am old and I am settled

F G in the place where I will stay C F When my wandering meanderings C G have finally reached their end C F Yeah whatever else maybe I will not forget my friends C F C G C F C G C Am

F C Friday evening, barely even begins Em Before my phone begins to ring Am with people asking where I am F And I can't suppress a smile,

C F When the evening casts it's shadows C G on the corners of my days C And I am old and I am settled F G in the place where I will stay C F When my wandering meanderings C G have finally reached their end C F Yeah whatever else maybe C may my friends me F C G | C F G | C F C G | C F C G C | La La La La La La…

we talk a while C Em The chances are that I am far away Am and so I'm phased out of the plan F And that's how I miss out, on another night C The kind of night Em where nothing really happens Am Yeah but everything goes down F And at the end I'm just a promise to C G pick up the phone, When I'm in town

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Thatcher Fucked The Kids E Whatever happened to childhood? A We're all scared of the kids in our neighboorhood; C#m They're not small, charming and harmless, F# They're a violent bunch A E of bastard little shits. E And anyone who looks younger than me A Makes me check for my wallet, and my phone and my keys, C#m And I'm tired of being tired out F# A Always being on the lookout E for thieving gits. [Chorus]: A We're all wondering how B F#m we ended up so scared; A We spent ten long years B F#m teaching our kids not to care A And that "there's no such thing B F#m as society" anyway, A E And all the rich folks act surprised A E When all sense of community dies,

A But you just closed your eyes E to the other side F#m A Of all the things that she did. B E Thatcher fucked the kids. E And it seems a little bit rich to me, A The way the rich only ever talk of charity C#m In times like the seventies, the broken down economy F# A Meant even the upper tier E was needing some help. E But as soon as things look brighter, A Yeah the grin gets wider and the grip gets tighter, C#m And for every teenage tracksuit mugger F# There's a guy in a suit who wouldn't A E lift a finger for anybody else. [Chorus] C#m You've got a generation G# raised on the welfare state, A Enjoyed all its benefits

E and did just great, F#m But as soon as they were settled C#m as the richest of the rich, A They kicked away the ladder, told the rest of us B that life's a bitch. C#m And it's no surprise G# A that all the fuck-ups didn't show up E until the kids had grown up. F#m But when no one ever smiles C#m or ever helps a stranger, A Is it any fucking wonder A E our society's in danger of collapse? E So all the kids are bastards, A But don't blame them, yeah, they learn by example. C#m Blame the folks who sold the future for the highest bid: F# That's right, A B E Thatcher fucked the kids.

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Ballad Of Me And My Friends Em Em C Everybody's got themselves a plan G D Everybody thinks they'll be the man, including the girls. Em The musicians who lack the friends C to form a band, are singer songwriters. G The rest of us are dj's, D or offical club photographers. Em And tonight im playing C another nambucca show, G so I'm going though my phonebook D texting everyone I know Em and quite a few I don't C whose numbers found their way into my phone G but they might come along anyway D you never really know.

G Dsus4 Em7 None of this is going anywhere C D Pretty soon we'll all be old G Dsus4 and no one left alive Em7 will really care C about our glory days, when we sold our souls. D But if your all about the destination, Em C then take a fucking flight. D We're going nowhere slowly Em D but we're seeing all the sights C G D and we're definitely going to hell. G But we'll have all the best D/f# Em7 D stories to tell. C G D Yes I'm definatly going to hell, G but I'll have all the best D G stories to tell.

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South of the South C Was just a tender chicken, in the Florida rotisserie F my owns sweats basting me, thunder storms are chasing me G i bit into a lightning bolt, my own tongue began to smoke F i woke up with an empty mouth, watched the watch tick backwards, C south of the south the csx vibrates the tracks, money order shakes the shacks, F purple skies and orange moons, plants are confident in june G humidity is thick you can cut it with a knife, F if you'd like to take breath here honey, C im going to cut you out a slice C so i developed gills and i moved into the aquaphor, F fell asleep in wakala springs, woke up down in jupiter G then i moved back to the land high into an orange tree F it was set for life with citrus but my body couldnt take this C a sitting tree

so i strolled down to miami, tried to find myself some friends F found myself down in south beach, and met some manequins

G who smelled of coconuts and copper tone, like the smells knew well F as far as conversations go i guess it C stopped at the start of the smell it was elvis and sinatra, and now where's your wallet, man i got ya F now if you pull like me they let poor people like me be G they said north beach is a war zone, high rise hotels hollowed out F now we were living large, we were stepping out and some thirty dollar beach front motel C down south of the south F south of south, down in north miami, C south of the south me and my whole of returning, F south of the south C we were practically married

so i jumped my pogo stick all the way to ebo city, F where they burned up a couple blocks, and to me seemed like a pity G there was once a cuban district and a center for the arts, G now a model like atmosphere homogenous and insincere, F they burned its heart right out C down south of the south

so i became a snake bird, an old swamp turkey, F and some red neck tried to shoot me, tried to make swamp turkey jerky G but i evaded all his bullets and i flew into the gulf, F and i jumped upon a west wind, to a safer haven out near alcony's and bay land, C down south, south of the south in the town of pensicola, riding bikes like we were kids, F over cobblestones and brick a tab, offensively a bridge, G there's a sand lot shot gun shack, to move all rusted out, F and theres a couch on every front porch, flapping screen doors, ants on the apple cores, pots boiled peanuts, and more down south C south of the south F south of the south, south of old bellanca C south of the south, F south of tuscunusa, south of the south, south of ol' alpharetta, C south of the south, F south of south carolina, south of south, C down south, of the south, of the south

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Maybe Separation Makes Us Stronger C God, it's been along time F since I've seen my girlfriend. C I don't own her, G but I'd surely love to see her. C I can't own my girlfriend F but I can do my best to set her free. C G C Maybe she can do the same for me F C And Maybe seperation is G C gonna make it stronger F C And all the seperation is G C gonna make it more for sure F C Maybe seperation is G C gonna prove that we were wrong F C Maybe seperation is G gonna make it, make it, F C F C a little bit stronger C I recall the first trip F that we took together

C out to Austin, Texas G we were only friends. C We decided to try our luck, F slept in the back of a pickuptruck C on the Rio Grande G C a place they call big ben C Couldn't get to sleep that night F underneath the cold starlight, C G the river was just 20 yards away C Couldn't help but wonder F if she wanted me to steal a kiss, C but I didn't steal, G C I waited for the right day F C And Maybe seperation is G C gonna make it stronger F C And all the seperation is G C gonna make us more for sure F C Maybe seperation is G C gonna prove that we were wrong

F C Maybe seperation is G gonna make it, make it, F C a little bit stronger

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C Now I've got decisions F about what to do, C where to go - back to school, G back out on the road C Does the future hold a place F for her and me and time to waste, C or does the time that es G C come to take it's toll? F C And Maybe seperation is G C gonna make it stronger F C And all the seperation is G C gonna make it more for sure F C Maybe seperation is G C gonna prove that we were wrong F C Maybe seperation is G gonna make it, make it, F C F C a little bit stronger

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Less Than the Air C Train's coming gonna F G Lay on the track C Happy right here F G Laying on my back C Let the train wheel F G Come take my life C Let the big steel F G Make it alright cause I've F G Got no friend to C Tell the trial F G Lots of enemies so C Quick to defile F G Suppose I'm drunk again but C I don't care F G All I know is I'm C F Less than the air G So lets not C compare C Feeling sorry are you F G Feeling blue are you C Down and out now

F G And overdue C Feeling crumpled up and F G Dented in C Are you trapped within your F G Very own skin it's F

G Like jail you C You can't see the bars F G Can't escape it by C Bleeding through your scars F G Self deprecation C Is a boring hand F G Your just bringing everyone C Down man C Feeling sacrificed you F G Feeling slammed are you C Claustrophobic on this F G Open land C Feeling smothered by the F G Deep blue sky C Does the sunset F G Hurt your eyes well your F G Not the only one who

C F Got caught in the rain G This whole world don't C F Revolve around your pain G You can go on now C F Spin out in misery G C I'll take the sun and the sea C Whaa sham sham a ling on F G Oohh dip dee dip C While my mental record F G Starts to skip C Oranges, lemon, limes and F G Tangelos C See the coconut tree F G Next to the mighty mango the F G High Sierra is C In my rearview mirror F G Ain't it beauty C F Beautiful my lovely dear G We got time so C F So let's not abuse G C Let's wear holes in our shoes C F G C F G C

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Pre-Invasion Jitters C ed the army for money for college F Now I'm trading bullets for knowledge G Isn't quite what I bargained for C They didn't tell me there'd be no war C Thought of the adventure, I thought it would be cool F I could see the whole world and go back to school G But for three months I've been on this ship C Staring at the water what a lame ass trip When I get the call I got to jump in a copter F Fly into the desert, into a slaughter G But you know I'm a pacifist C Shooting in the dark at a terrorist [Chorus1:] I got F Aint F Cant F This

F G C those pre-invasion jitters G C no traitor, aint no quitter G C get into the helicopter G C ain't like Playstation at all

C Some of these guys out on this ship

F Are so gung-ho war you know it makes me trip G Got an illegitimate President C Taking his word like its heaven sent. I'm just a number in the war machine F Lost my say when I was seventeen G I'm indigenous personnel C Flying in a copter going straight to hell [Chorus2:] F G C I got those pre-invasion jitters F G C Aint no traitor, aint no quitter F G C We could never stop the terror F G C By adding fuel to its fire

C In this violent power struggle F I just want to love and snuggle G Could you define a terrorist? C Give me the pen, I'm going to make my list. George Bush Sr., and George Bush Jr. F Ronald Reagan and the corporate donors G CIA and the FBI C NRA and that Heston guy. Fundamentalist Christian plan F Just as bad as the Taliban G Take the world for all they can C Disregard the Muslim land [Chorus1]

C What if I refuse to fight? F Put me in the stockade overnight G You see I have opened up my fist C In all war I shall resist. As it was is how it will be F Insanity for all humanity G Drop your guns dance around C All sides now let's have a hoe down [Chorus2]

C Well what's the solution to the problem? F Give me the answers cause I ain't got them G Israel and Palestine C Who are we to pick a side? We are not the world's police F Dropping bombs don't keep the peace G Shooting guns on foreign soil C In this bloody quest for oil [Chorus2]

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The Stars Are My Chandelier C I love her more than he could ever even hope for Love her twice as much as all of there is and more I could say my love is bigger than the Big Apple Like oxyphenbutazone in Scrabble F G C Just like the stars are my chandelier F G C Just like these landscapes are my living room F G C Just like the highways are veins F G C I am the blood, I am the rain C Saw the stars align in twenty-seven straight rows Saw the trees becoming lovers in the shadows Heard the crickets overpower every radio, heard the sound of the silence kill my ego, kill your ego, kill all ego F G C And all these stars were our chandelier F G C And all these landscapes were our living rooms F G C And all the highways are veins F G C We are the blood, we are the rain

G And you, you're heaven to hold We'll never get old F You're heaven to hold G C Honey, you're heaven to hold __________________________________

C They blasted through the bedrock With sticks of dynamite They dug the might tunnels Worked all day and night I wasn't thinking about bridge That stretched across the gourge

Song for the Civil Engineer C It's a song for the road Snaky, stretch of tar Concrete and gravel, stretching near and far Those highways and byways Lovely scenic routes From the mazes of our cities To the desolation south F G C Yeah for every stretch of road F G C There was a civil engineer F G C And a crew to lay it down F Through the heat G C and the dirt, through the years

And all the time it took For the steel to be forged F G C Yeah for every stretch of road F G C There was a civil engineer F G C And a crew to lay it down F Through the heat G C and the dirt, through the years F G C Yeah for every stretch of road F G C There was a civil engineer F G C And a factory crew F To forge the steel G To build the bridge, C Through the years

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C I broke my promise F on a very sharp rock C and I was possessed G by something quite unfriendly C G and I was haunted Am F by a demon in my sleep C G and that's how I learned C how to survive C and I gave a beer F to a bum that was drinking C and I gave some sauce G to my bestest friend for cooking C G and I gave water Am F to all I thought were thirsty C G and that's how I learned C how to survive C and I gave some money F to my bank for safe keeping C and I gave some money

G to my landlord he was needing it C G and I gave attention Am F to the TV that was bleeding C G and that's how I learned C how to survive C If you ain't got the do re mi boys C G If you ain't got the do re mi C Well you'd better go back F to beautiful Texas C G C Oklahoma Kansas Georgia Tennessee C California is a garden of eden C F a paradise to live in or see C G but believe it or not Am F you won't find it so hot C G C If you ain't got the do re mi C and I just ripped off F a man named Woodie Guthrie C and I bought a restaurant G for his son named Alice C G Am and I fed false information

F to the audience C G and that's how I learned C how to survive C and I give a thank you F to my father for leaving me C and I give a finger G to my step father for beating me C G and I give props Am F to myself for achieving C G C goddamn I'm glad that I survived C G C goddamn I'm glad that I survived C and I just handed you F a giant load of gibberish C and I give love G to a lover quite deserving of it C G and I give thanks Am F to all of you for listening C G to the story of how we all C learned how to survive

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People G People are wasteful, they waste all the food D People are hateful and people are rude G B5 C G But God I love some people sometimes D G Because people are very, very special

D G regardless of anything B5 I said people are people C G regardless of gender People are people D G regardless of anything And people are my religion

And people are impatient, because I believe in them they don't know how to wait People are selfish D and people are prone to hate G B5 C G But God I love some people sometimes Because people are D G the greatest thing to happen B5 I said God I love C G some people sometimes Because people are D G the greatest thing to happen And people are people

People are my enemies D and people are my friends G B5 C G I have faith in my fellow man And I only hope D G that he has faith in me B5 C G I said I have faith in my fellow man And I only hope D G that he has faith in me B5 C G I said I have faith in my fellow man And I only hope D G that he has faith in me

regardless of skin D People are people regardless of creed G B5 C G People are people regardless of gender People are people

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Little Prince (El Principito) G D C C/b C/A G D C C/b C/A G D hey everything, fuck you C i hate everything you do to me G i despise every lie D i've come to believe C and i hate every evil thing Am D that i see G D this juxtaposition of good and bad C reminds me of the best and the worst dreams i've had G D I'm either to happy or fucking sad C Am D and i can't keep up with that G D and my job what a shame C just a mountain of death filling up my brain G I'm always tied D to the tracks of the train C Am D desperately afraid of going insane G D And I'd like to take advantage

C of a flock of wild birds to make, G D C to make my escape from this planet G D And I'd like to take advantage C of a flock of wild birds to make, G D C to make my escape from this planet, Am D from this planet G D christ almighty i've been thirsty C I'm forever fat and ugly G D stumbling bumbling bastard stubbly C faces will always be hungry G D C and i don't know if I'm capable of helping anyone G D C I am at the mercy of emotions of my better friends, Am D my better friends G D And I'd like to take advantage C of a flock of wild birds to make, G D C to make my escape from this planet G D And I'd like to take advantage C of a flock of wild birds to make, G D C to make my escape from this planet, Am D G from this planet

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F Det var nånting hon skulle ha svarat C Nånting som hon kom på Dm E7 när hon läste i en tidning Am F Nånting om ensamhetsförtvining C Inget särskilt, men ändå Dm E7 Hon skulle säkert förklarat... Nånting Am Och går hon hem förbi hans lägenhet G så har dom målat och byggt om Am Han har väl säkert ta't sig loss G och vänt sig om F från stan som väntar höst, Am som fryser till och blir

F#m Han kunde frågat hur hon kände D och förklarat vad som hände Bm Han kunde sagt nånting om alla E7 A sina goda teorier F#m Dom kunde ju alltid ta't en fika D Dom skulle sett att dom var lika Bm så går hon med huvudvärk E7 A och svär i grubblerier

Dm E7 En man som undrar om hon gråter Am F Och kanske hon förlåter C om hon får veta om hans brev Dm E7 som ligger kvar på posten Am Han åker in till stan ibland G och han irrar runt där som ett fån Am G fast hon säkert redan flyttat där ifrån F Am Tiden går och hösten fryser till G7 C och det blir vinter över ån A

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F#m Han ville fråga hur hon kände D och förklara vad som hände Bm Han ville säga nåt om alla E7 A sina goda teorier F#m Han skulle gärna ta en fika D Han vet att dom är lika Bm Lika komiska när båda E7 A trampar runt i grubblerier A

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A Hjärter Dam vänder blad, C#m för en ny eskapad Bm E7 Hon har börjat på en ny roman D A Det mörknar över ån och över TV-tablån, Bm E7 och det är leda och slentrian A Hjärter Dam, du var så tyst, C#m tills du blev kramad och kysst Bm E7 Nu har du fått din kära livskumpan D A En soffa på rea och en nyrenoverad Bm E7 trea i Stångåstan A

D B7 E Nu skulle du få börja om på den nivån F#m E och bli stadgad, trygg och hemtam A D Men när hösten skingrat myggen E F#m kommer klådan inifrån D Det både isar och bränns, Bm E7 ja jag vet hur det känns, Hjärter Dam A Det finns så mycket att förlora, C#m dina drömmar är så stora Bm E7 Här är gatorna alldeles för små D A Här sitter alla på kafé och säger: Bm E7 "Ingen idé, det är för sent ändå" A Dina chanser blir allt färre,

C#m och ditt tvivel bara värre Bm E7 På kafé finns ingen hjälp att få D Klådan bygger bo och du får A ingen lugn och ro, Bm E7 här ser du tågen komma och gå A D Och all din trygghet stramar B7 E allt för tätt inpå F#m E Det isar och det bränns A D Och du letar efter gråa dagars E F#m själ att skynda på D Bm och vill byta planet, Hjärter Dam, E7 jag vet hur det känns

A Hjärter Dam vänder blad, C#m för en ny eskapad Bm E7 Inget äventyr att leva på KAS D Du måste sänka dina krav, A Bm eller vinna på trav, E7 om du ska komma i fas A D B7 E Och sådan leda bryter ner en bra frisyr F#m E och du blir tråkig, ful och trött A D Och du samlar dina spöken E F#m Där i KOMVUX kursbroschyr D och blir bitter och lam, Bm E7 Hjärter Dam, dina blommor har dött

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A Lyckan kommer, lyckan går, C#m och det är långt till nästa vår Bm E7 Nu faller löven över Stångåstan D A Nu sitter alla på kafé och snackar skit Bm E7 och dricker te, av gammal slentrian A Hjärter Dam vänder blad, C#m för en ny eskapad Bm E7 Hon har börjat på en ny roman D Det är morgon snart igen, A lycka till kära vän, Bm E7 skriv om drömmar Hjärter Dam

A Det finns en fagrare glans, C#7 någon annanstans F#m D Du får hoppas som om himlen fanns, A E7 A E7 och tro och be att det ska gå A C#7 För du får ingen tröst, av din inre röst F#m D Den vill knäcka dig varenda höst, A E7 A E och gråa dagar skyndar aldrig på A C#m Depressiva episoder och maniska perioder Bm E7 Vissa klarar sig utan extas D Andra springer fatt A och blir nervösa och får spatt, Bm E7 om inte livet är ett kul kalas.

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Pollenchock och stjärnfall D A G D D A G D A G D Natten kom och älvor for som dårar över stan A G och jag var en av alla kungar i salongen D A Men ruset kom och gick G D och lämnade kvar ett litet barn A G som stod och kippade efter andan på balkongen F#7 Bm Jag slog mig själv för pannan Em A och sa: Vad har jag gjort? F#7 Jag skrek rakt ut att: Bm Em A Det här var sista gången D A Men värdinnan drog mig med G D och vi vällde ut ur hennes port A D och trotsade Newton i den sviktande betongen D A G D D A G D A Det var vår och det var varmt G D och alla älvor sjöng i kör A G när vi la oss under stjärnorna i parken D A Efter slask och is och snö G D fanns plötsligt nåt att leva för A G när allt som vintern gömt sköt upp ur marken F#7 Bm Det var nånting om befruktning, Em A det var nåt om hur man gör F#7 Bm Em A Det liksom for omkring, det måste varit pollen D A Vi skrattade och drack vin G D direkt ur flaskan, som sig bör, när det är vår och fest A D och man har tappat kollen

[Chorus]: Bm A Så säg hur aktierna faller, G D säg hur kursen vänder om Bm A Ge mig tips och goda råd G D så jag kan göra helt tvärt om Bm A För det är väl fan inte sånt G A man tänker på och drömmer om D G Varenda tår, varenda skratt D G Varenda dröm ska vi ha fatt F#m G A Allt ska sugas ut ur varje natt G A D Ja, allt ska sugas ut ur varje natt D A G D D A G D A Ruset kom tillbaks G D och alla vänner drog sig hem A G och lämnade kvar mig i en park med en värdinna D A Vi lova att vi skulle G D ligga kvar till gryningen A G och känna vinterångest tyna och försvinna F#7 Bm Vi bara låg där och såg på Em A hur en vårnatt underhöll F#7 Det var så stort, Bm Em A man liksom tappade perspektivet D A Det var så konstigt hur jag smalt, G D det var så härligt hur jag föll A D när värdinnan höll ett tal om själva livet

D A Hon sa: Vad är det här för värld, G D där man ska slå eller få stryk A G Ska man förlora eller följa direktiven D A Man får resa i sig själv G D i korridorerna på psyk A G om man inte har fått säkra kort på given F#7 Bm Ska man älta om sin barndom, Em A eller tackla sig fram F#7 Bm Em A Det verkar bara finnas dom alternativen D A Nej, vi kan vältra oss i parken G D här och bry oss om varann A D Det är ingen stress och ingen strid på kniven [Chorus] D A G D Nätter kommer smygande med vårens luft ibland A G det liksom rör sig under ytan och fasaden D A Det här var natten då vi dansade G D tills älvorna kom fram A G Det var pollenchock och stjärnfall över staden F#7 Bm Det var natten då vi kom Em A bland alla älvor och försvann F#7 Bm Em A rätt in i dimman ibland blommorna och bladen D A Hon har ett badkar, där vi sitter nu G D och drunknar i varann . Sagan är slut, . G jag sätter punkt för sista raden

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G7 F G7 C Men flickan har drömmar, det kan man ändra på

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Am Dm Am E7 På en kvinnoanstalt är det fuktigt och kallt F G7 C E7 för en dam som avtjänar sitt straff. Am Dm Am E7 För dom år som har gått, en serie grova brott F G7 C och konsekvenser av sin fysiska kraft.

Am Dm Am E7 På en parkbänk i stan, full som själva fan, F G7 C E7 där sitter en man och tar ett järn. Am Dm Han är ensam för sin stank Am E7 och han är utbränd och pank, F G7 C och han fick pruta för en folköl i affärn. E7 Am När han var liten så rymde han från barnhemmet E7 Am och stack ut med nåt fyllo, från A-laget. B7 E7 Han verkade så snäll, Am Am/G F fast han var full och kriminell. G7 E7 Am Och pojken får nu leva på vatten och bröd F G7 C E7 och Paradis-Oskar är död. C G7 F C Hans eget fel. Det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 F C Brott är brott. Det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 F C Och paragrafer kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 F G7 C Men pojken har drömmar, det kan man ändra på.

E7 Am Förargelseväckande beteenden. E7 Am En skurk bakom oskuldsfulla leenden. B7 E7 En flicka, så grann, Am Am/G F dömd för våld mot tjänsteman. G7 E7 Am En samling av djur som tycks va illegal, F G7 C E7 samt ett misstänkt stort kapital. F G Am F E7 Am E7 Am Dm Am E7 Hon gråter varje kväll, instängd i en cell, F G7 C E7 och hennes röda flätor börjar färgas grå. Am Dm Hon var elva år blott, Am E7 när hon begick sina brott, F G7 C och nu ska hon snart fylla femtiotvå. E7 Am Vårdslösa beteenden E7 Am straffar sig självt i alla avseenden. B7 E7 Am Am/G F En flicka så from, nu bakom lås och bom. G7 E7 Am Och Tommy och Annikas goda hjälpsamhet F G7 C E7 har klassats som medskyldighet. C G7 Flickan är skyldig, F C det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 F C Lag är lag. Det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 F C Brott är brott. Det kan man aldrig ändra på.

F G Am F E7 Am E7 Am Dm Am E7 I en dyster sal, på ett kvinnohospital, F G7 C E7 där ligger en kvinna på en bår. Am Dm Hon har just fått sin tablett, Am E7 för sitt märkliga sätt F G7 C att börja skrika så fort det blir vår. E7 Am Hallucinationer i forntiden. E7 Am Hon tror hon har sett fåglar med ansikten. B7 E7 Am Am/G F Och hennes enda vän får hon aldrig se igen, G7 för han trotsade förbuden E7 Am och sin egen förkunskap

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Am Dm I en fåtölj på TV3 Am E7 sitter en självgod conferancier, F G7 C E7 och indoktrinerar våran smak. Am Dm Med ett hjärta av sten Am E7 och en järnklo ger han sken F G7 C att va en herre som kan ta sig där bak. E7 Am Han vill så gärna styra vårt beteende, E7 Am med sin höga position och höga anseende. B7 E7 Han vill döda våra kval Am Am/G F med fräna ord och skitmoral. G7 Ja, riddar Kato suddar ut E7 Am vartenda spår av vilsenhet, F G7 C E7 tills vi bor i varsitt tvättmedelspaket. C G7 Ja, Kato är galen. F C Det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 Hans mamma var en sten. F C Det kan du slå dig i backen på. G7 Och Kato är hysterisk. F C Det kan man aldrig ändra på. G7 Men att Kato har makten. F G7 C Ja, det kan vi ta mig fan ändra på!

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Bm F#7 Bm Du är fri och tar allting för givet, F#7 Bm du kan skratta åt livet Em F#7 Du lever för stunden, precis som jag Bm F#7 Bm Det är nudlar och lånade pengar, F#7 Bm du har grå efterslängar Em F#7 men lyckan i grunden, precis som jag A7 D Vi är som personifierade nittiotal A7 F#7 i ett virrvarr av chanser och val Bm F#7 Bm Ont om rutiner, gott om dåliga vanor, F#7 Bm gott om kitchiga planer Em F#7 Jag lever för kicken, precis som du Bm F#7 Bm Jag blir oinspirerad och ledsen F#7 Bm av kraven och stressen Em Jag har frihet i blicken, F#7 precis som du A7 Här står livet i farstun, D så nära inpå A7 D men det är nåt som gnager ändå

F#7 Bm Det kallas tvivel, det där som stör E7 A7 Det kallas för en klump i magen D F#7 och ett konstigt humör B7 Em och jag ser hur du tänker på nåt A7 hur du längtar dig bort Bm F#7 som en fågel i bur D F#7 G En obehaglig distans A7 Em en konstig känsla nånstans F#7 (Bm) Det känns tomt - eller hur?

Em F#7 Dom hjälper mot ledan, precis som du Bm F#7 Bm Jag har tid, jag har lediga dagar, F#7 Bm där jag sitter och klagar Em och längtar till fredan, F#7 precis som du A7 Kan du höra hur det låter D i ditt vilsna skratt? A7 D Kan du känna hur det gnager i natt? [Chorus] Bm

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Bm F#7 Bm Som ett kliande, svidande skavsår F#7 Bm är den tomhet som kvarstår Em när du somnar om natten, F#7 precis som jag Bm F#7 Bm utan mening på jakt efter ruset, F#7 Bm genom dunket och bruset Em F#7 Du lever för skratten, precis som jag A7 Vi är som flugor i smöret D på nån annans kalas A7 F#7 Vi proppar i oss och vi vaknar som as Bm F#7 Bm Här ligger ångest och prylar i drivor F#7 Bm jag unnar mig skivor

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Julgröten Intro: D F# G A D D D/f# Det sjungs en sång i nattom ljus G5 i vintertid Bm Bm/A Hysterisk julefrid G D A Asus4 rår med kalla ögon över taken D D/f# G5 Fröken svår somna bort och ta sig loss Bm Bm/A Men tusen tomtebloss Bdim Em håller Fröken Svår lika vaken A som den glada tomten Asus4 D vid adventsljusstaken Bm F#7 God jul, fru Hjärter Dam och Fröken Svår G Em A Gott Nytt År till all er sorg och era sår Bm F#7 Begåvade små barn i stadens kör G A sjunger tindrande servilt så alla hör D D/f# G De sjunger sånger om ett ljus i vintertid Bm Bm/A medan mammon i sin svid, G Em A drillar dig besatt tills du står naken. D F# G A D D D/f# G5 Det går en gudason på stan med tunga fjät Bm Bm/A Han trösta och förlät, G D men nu så står han själv A Asus4 mitt upp i gråten

D D/f# En sömnig sil söver i säng G5 fru Hjärter Dam, Bm Bm/A utan puss och kram, Bdim Em utan ambition att bli förlåten; A Asus4 D en uppgiven gest bland världens bråten Bm En stressad mamma F#7 som har skinkan full av jul, G blir rädd att släkten Em A kanske inte har så kul Bm En kärnfamilj med huset F#7 prytt av marsipan G A Kan väl inte längta bort på doppar dan? Bm Familj Vanilj vill fira F#7 julen snäll och söt G A men en bittermandel göms i deras gröt D D/f# Det går en ängel runt på stan G med tunga fjät Bm Bm/A Medans mammon fet och tät, G Em A lutar sig tillbaks mätt och belåten

D D/f# Det sjungs en sång inatt om ljus G5 i vintertid Bm Bm/A En barnakör tar vid Bdim I glitter-vakuum kan man Em hoppas tro och tralla A Asus4 att jesus återvänder snart D en gång för alla, Bm F#7 Men om jesus dog för våra synders skull G Em A så lär han va bra död i denna mull Bm Fru Hjärter Dam står stel F#7 och sjunken ner i dyn G och hon väntar på ett stjärnfall A i skyn D D/f# G Inte för att hon vill önska sig nånting Bm Bm/A Nej, hon önskar ingenting G men hon vill se att det Em A som glittrar mest ska falla D F# G A D

D F# G A D D D/f# G5 Det går en sägen om att önska sig nånting Bm Bm/A Pengar far omkring G D A Vad gör mammon om nån utgjuter sig galla

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However Many Takes it Takes Capo on 3rd C Go swimming in the deep end C/b I find out where your faith begins Am You're waiting for an answer G that's acceptable F The current sweeps you out to sea G And it keeps you guessing helplessly C C/b You're praying for a savior Am G who's exceptional F Someone who'll lift you from your knees G And salve your wounds, and hand you the keys C C/b And offer you the kingdom Am G of your dreams F But nothing's ever as it seems G You find yourself further down stream C C/b Alone, save for the echoes Am G of your screams F G Ah, honey, fairy tales

C are prone to tease C/a C/b C C/d C/e C/f C/e C/d C C Well candles burn you warm and safe C/b You lock your door and control your space Am And curtains drawn, G you think that you're impenetrable F But demons they don't live outside G They burrow deep where they can hide C Inside a safe, C/b Am G you will still feel vulnerable F You draw a bath and pour some wine G You drink yourself into another time C C/b Am G Where you feel truly free F The water's rising overhead G And you wake to find yourself in bed C You're gasping, C/b Am G for a breath that's hard to breathe F Ahh, honey, dreams are G C rarely what they seem /a /b C /d/e /f /e /d C Oh, however, many takes, it takes

C Well, step outside into the sun C/b Am Let it dry your eyes and run around G Feel the warmth underneath your skin F The clouds will soon move in again G You can't expect to always win C C/b Am G You got to, take it as it comes F The marching bands and beating drums G Play familiar songs for the alum C We all got scars, C/b Am G but we don't like to show them F Sometimes it's better to be strong G We all got to be moving on C C/b Am G You got to walk a million miles F G C Ahh, honey, go walk them with a smile. /a /b C /d/e /f /e /d C Oh, however, many takes, it takes

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A Mighty Leviathan of Old Capo on 2nd fret, but not on low E-string. So for clarity, the /d is just the low Estring, open.

/d /f# /a D A I found that I find Bm F#m the things that you find G A D /d /f# /a Important rather peculiar D A The space in between Bm F#m between you and me G A D Has grown darker and deeper and bigger /d /f# /a D A Were it not for the knots Bm F#m that we tied long and taught G A D /d /f# /a We might not be hanging around D A Bm F#m At opposite ends of a towering span G A D Over troubled waters below Bm F#m Down a raging river G A D /d /f# /a with a deadly undertow D A We circled the moat Bm F#m and you rocked the boat G A D Like a mighty leviathan of old /d /f# /a D A With cracks in our feet Bm F#m we beat foreign streets

G We got stranded, A D we canvassed for answers /d /f# /a D A But the prayers we prayed Bm F#m fell silent and straight G A D No a savior won't save when commanded /d /f# /a D A So we marched through the dark Bm F#m With cast-iron hearts G A D And all the strength we could muster /d /f# /a D A With torches in hand Bm F#m we surveyed the land G A D And stumble one after the other Bm F#m Damned with blind ambition G A D To a glass house miles below /d /f# /a D A And the garden did grow Bm F#m some roots down in droves G A D And blocked out the sun while it shone D A G A D /d /f# /a Woah, woah woah...

Bm F#m with a furious sound G A D And rusted that belt until it broke /d /f# /a D A So I clawed through the dirt, Bm F#m the soil of the Earth G With bare hands A D that barely could shovel /d /f# /a D A And the canyon did flood Bm F#m with water and blood G A D From a thunderous storm up above Bm F#m Yes and God spoke clearly G A D for the very first time in my life /d /f# /a D A And the sounds he made Bm F#m were glorious and great G A D It was a tidal wave of rhythm D A G A D /d /f# /a Woah, woah woah...

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Billie the Vision And the Dancers

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Overdosing With You Italics: Annika Normal: Lars Bold: Both Intro: e||---------------|----------------B||-3--3--3--1--0-|---0--1--0------G||---------------|-2----------2--0D||---------------|----------------A||---------------|----------------E||---------------|----------------e||---------------|-------------------| B||---1--0----0---|-------------------| G||--------2----0-|----0--2--0--------| D||-2-------------|-4-----------------| A||---------------|-------------------| E||---------------|-------------------|

G C D Em D C D G/B C G C I've been thinking 'bout D Gabrielle Solis Em D and all the desperate housewives C D And I've been thinking 'bout G/B C Mike Delfino and his gun. G C And I've been drawing patterns D Em D C in my mind but I can't fall asleep. D And I've been counting all G/B C the sheep there is to count. G C No, I can't fall asleep, D and that is why Em D C I'm here with you tonight.

D Can you lend me a DVD box G/B C or sing me a lullaby? Am D Hello Mrs. Van De Kamp G did you clean the whole kitchen C and drink all the wine? Am D G Hello Saferide, can you give me C a safe ride back to sleep? D Cause I wanna OD on DH. D I wanna OD on DH. D G Let me overdose on DH with you. G C D Em D C D G/B C G C I've been trying to kill the pain D watching make-believe people's Em D fake disasters C D if I'd been Elaine this misery'd G/B C been followed by studio laughter. G C been looking for someone D who could love me Em D just like Will loves Grace, C But they say “It's not like D on your flat screen TV”.

G/B It's gotta be like C on my flat screen TV G C I've seen you around D Em D I can tell that you're just like me. C D You'd rather watch reruns G/B than deal with the bad C spin-off called life G C I’ll put the kettle on. D Let’s not speak, Em D C talk ruins every conversation. D I’ve ed Dexter. G/B C Come, there’s room next to me. Am D Hello Mr Sipowicz, G 'ginning to understand C why you act like you do. Am D Hello Pablo, G C I got this vision we can dance to. D And I need to OD on NYPD. D I need to OD on NYPD. D G Let's overdose on NYPD when we're blue G C D Em D C D G/B C x2 G

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I Want Something A D she's sittin in a bathroom stall A with a marker in her hand D scribbling down the words A to her favorite song by her favorite band D and she hopes someone will read them A D and maybe they'll understand how it feels A E to care so much it hurts F#m to fight so hard you shake D to love so intensely that it scares you A to build so much that something breaks E she knows that she's not the only one F#m but sometimes it sure feels that way D in a little college town in Ohio A so there's a song that she sings everyday [Chorus]: D I want something A D that's better than this. A D and i'm not sure exactly what it is A but i think that we could build it D if we try together And A Do D Do A Do

if we all sing, do do do do, do do dododo, do do do do, do do dododo, D do do do do, dododododo,

A D A And 500 miles away, down I-70 D there's a boy sitting in a room A full of patches and P D and the kids all drink the same beer A and they talk about anarchy D and he wonders if he's the only one A who re what that used to mean E and the punk-rock band plays on F#m long into the night D these days the girls with the empty eyes A hardly even put up a fight E and he watches as his friends give up F#m and slowly start to die D sticking needles in their arms A because punk-rock boys never cry, and he sings: D I want something A D that's better than this. A D and i'm not sure exactly what it is A but i think that we could build it D if we try together And A Do D Do A Do

if we all sing, do do do do, do do dododo, do do do do, do do dododo, D do do do do, dododododo,

A D and that very same night A kids all across the earth D felt lonely and confused A frightened and unsure E and we're trying to find one another F#m through a system that keeps us apart to match the weapons D that we hold in our fists, with the ion A that we carry in our hearts E and we know it's gonna take a long time and we know that we'll F#m fuck up along the way D but i've got a feeling that we're winning A as i hear more and more and more of us say: [No chords]: I want something that's better than this. and i'm not sure exactly what it is but i think that we could build it D if we try together And A Do D Do A Do A Do D Do A Do

if we all sing, do do do do, do do dododo, do do do do, do do dododo, D do do do do, dododododo, do do do do, do do dododo, do do do do, do do dododo, D do do do do, dododododo,

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Punks With Clean Kitchens C With held hands and spray cans Am flashlights held in our teeth Dm G we dug tunnels under their concrete C and we once stole the floor Am right from under their feet Dm G they never saw us coming C Am but after our laughter had given us away Dm G how we ran all through the day? C and their shouts and batons Am were no match for our songs Dm G I bet the chief of police drank a stiff one that night |C

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Dm G and someday we should give back C Am all the traffic cones that we stole G and all the wrenches C C7 that we borrowed from your school F Fm but tonight we're both alone, C C/b Am so i'll call you on the phone G and we'll drink together from 300 miles away don't forget to remind me of things that i just shouldn't say... [Chorus]: C G Give us a toast! give us a light! Am F For every ghost or bump in the night C C7 F Fm For every story we should never tell C G C Give us a toast to the nights we gave em hell! |C

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C Am The helicopter lights held us in their sights Dm G and the megaphone drone echoed in the night C they lowered their guns Am we sat down and linked arms Dm they told us not to move, G two hearts beat "fuck you!" C they said you can be killed Am if you won't be bought Dm and with one hand in yours G and one eye on the door F G C i said, "captain, take yer best shot!" |C

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Dm G well in retrospect that was not C Am the best thing that could have said G C C7 but I've never claimed to be diplomatic F Fm But it was our lucky day, C C/b Am And in the end we got away G And we ed out that night Curled up on the floor of your attic

C G F C one for our comrades locked up in their cells C G F C one for the kids out there hoppin' and hitchin' C G the raider's of dumpsters, F C the punks with clean kitchens C G F C to the mexican mother with a plan of attack C G F C a baby at her breast and a gun on her back C G F here's to the day all the flags will be black G and each one comes packaged with it's own match! C G F C here's to the nights when no one sleeps alone C G and you can't tell the difference F C between fire and stone C G F C for each little girl who just won't behave C G F if you wanna be free then you gotta be brave G if you ain't got no masters you can't be a slave! C G F C we're going somewhere at the edges of love C G we're through with the old world, F C we've had quite enough C G F C you best not be silent if you wanna come C G F get your fist in the air and start singing along G now pour me another, let's write the next song!

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C G Am F oh my friend things have been hard C G Am F and our old weaknesses are tearing us apart C5 G5 A5 F5 something's been growing between me and you C5 G5 it's the difference between A5 F5 the things that we say and the ones that we do C5 G5 A5 F5 so here's to the days when that wasn't true C5 G5 and here's to the promise A5 F5 those days will come back soon C G F C here's one for the wobblies and one for the elves

Dm G when we're done think of all C Am the empty bottles that we'll have G C C7 I'm sure we'll put them to good use F Fm cause I hear sirens outside, C C/b Am so let's sing the chorus one last time G G7 and then my friends let's do what we've gotta do G I think that we might G7 have a date with the boys in blue... [Chorus]

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I Will Follow You Into the Dark Capo on 5th

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C Love of mine, Am Someday you will die F But I will be close behind C G I will follow, you into the dark C No blinding light Am Or tunnels to gates of white F Just our hands clasped so tight C G Waiting for, the hint of a spark Am C If heaven and hell decide, F C G that they both are satisfied Am C Illuminate the "no's", G on their vacancy signs Am C If there's no one beside you, E Am G when your soul embarks F Fm C Then I will follow you into the dark

C Catholic school Am As vicious as roman rule F I got my knuckles bruised C G By a lady in black C And I held my tongue Am as she told me, "son, F fear is the heart of love." C G So I never went back Am C If heaven and hell decide, F C G that they both are satisfied Am C Illuminate the "no's", G on their vacancy signs Am C If there's no one beside you, E Am G when your soul embarks F Fm C Then I will follow you into the dark

Am the time for sleep is now F But it's nothing to cry about C G Because we'll hold each other soon, Am Fm in the blackest of rooms Am C If heaven and hell decide, F C G that they both are satisfied Am C Illuminate the "no's", G on their vacancy signs Am C If there's no one beside you, E Am G when your soul embarks F Fm C Then I will follow you into the dark F Fm C Then I will follow you into the dark

C You and me, Am have seen everything to see F From Bangkok to Calgary C G And the soles of your shoes C Are all worn down,

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F C I take a breath and pull the air G in 'til there's nothing left. C F C I'm feeling green like teenage lovers G between the sheets C Ba ba ba ba F Ba ba ba ba C

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F Knuckles clenched to white C G as the landing gear retract for flight C F My head's a balloon, C G Inflating with the altitude. C

Sleeping In C Last week I had the strangest dream Am Where everything was exactly how it seemed F Where there never any mystery G of who shot john f kennedy C It was just a man with something to prove Am Slightly bored and severely confused F He steadied his rifle with his target in the center G And became famous

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F I watch the patchwork farms C slow fade into the ocean's arms F and from here they can't see me stare C the stale taste of recycled air. F I watch the patchwork farms C slow fade into the ocean's arms. F Calm down, release your cares. C The stale taste of recycled air.

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C C And then last night I had that strange dream Am Where everything

was exactly how it seemed F Where concerns about the world getting warmer G The people thought they were just being rewarded C For treating others as they like to be treated Am For obeying stop signs and curing diseases F For mailing letters with the address of the sender G Now we can swim any day in november C Don't Am Don't F Don't G Don't

wake me, I plan on sleeping wake me, I plan on sleeping in wake me, I plan on sleeping wake me, I plan on sleeping in

C Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in Am Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping F Oooh, oooh... G oh... x1000.000

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This Place Is A Prison Am C Am C Am C G Am C This place is a prison Am C And these people aren't your friends Am C Inhaling thrills through $20 bills G And the tumblers are drained and then flooded again F G Am C And again F

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D Will someone please call a surgeon G Who can crack my ribs Bm A and repair this broken heart G That you're deserting A for better company? D I can't accept that it's over G I will block the door Bm A like a goalie tending the net G In the third quarter A of a tied game rivalry D G A F#m So, just say how to make it right D G And, I swear I'll do my best A F#m to comply Bm G A Tell me am I right to think D Bm that there could be nothing better Bm G A Than making you my bride and slowly F#m Bm growing old together D

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D G A F#m So, please back away and let me go D G A I can't my darling I love you so... F#m Oh oh Bm G A Tell me am I right to think D Bm that there could be nothing better Bm G A Than making you my bride and slowly F#m Bm growing old together Bm G A Don't you feed me lines D Bm about some idealistic future Bm G A Your heart won't heal right F#m Bm if you keep tearing out the sutures

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