Tonart: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I took a photo of my mother
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with a puzzle on her face
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She was lost in concentration
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next to tulips in a vase
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And I framed it good with maple
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wood and I hung it in its place
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I called it: "Almost round the world
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in less than eighty days"
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Once I wrote a song about
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a parrot and a pig
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It was mostly about the way
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I wish I said the things I think
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And I played once for people
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in the Netherlands to see
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If it made the same strange sense to them as
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the sense it made to me
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Verse 3
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There was a writer from the paper
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there and he wrote a nice review
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That got printed with a pho
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to in the local music news
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But the caption read: "A
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cowboy poet sings about abuse
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Of animals in Texas and the things they're
Interlude 2
made to do."
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Verse 4
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Well I laughed at bad translations and I
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showed it to my friends
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And they posted it online just for
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the fun and for the fans
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And I didn't think much of it till one
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day a message came
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That said the vegans were erupt
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ing and the hunters were inflamed
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Interlude 3
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Verse 5
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So I went and read the boards
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where all the flames were being thrown
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And my name was being doused
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about like fuel upon the coals
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The righteous and the roustabouts,
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the shepherds and the trolls
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They were passing around petitions,
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raising hell and forming folds
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Verse 6
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And soon the loudest of the louds
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became the busiest of bees
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And it was hard to understand at all,
but it was harder to believe
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When they somehow woke the
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NRA like a giant from its sleep
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And the beanstalk came crashing down
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and letters fell like leaves
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Verse 7
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I've got an aunt in Arizona,
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she's crazy but she's kind
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She's the kind to open all
her mail and to easily subscribe
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To the pundits and their politics,
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the lobbies and their lies
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She reads them all like gospel and
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she eats them up like pie
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Verse 8
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So imagine if you will the day
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she called my mom to see
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If it's true that I love terrorists and
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Cause it said so in the letter
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that she'd so easily received
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And I rushed to get my camera
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before my mom could call retreat
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Interlude 4
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Verse 9
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So I've got this photo of
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my mother with a puzzle on her face
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With the phone against her shoulder
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and my means against her ways
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And the tulips on the table
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danced in circles while I played
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I called it: "Almost round the world
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in less than eighty days"
Outro 1
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