Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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Gm
Raised on words like "punishment"
Eb
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and "God will get you
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Gm
Bb
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If you don't do what you're told."
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Gm
Eb
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Nuns turned children into fearful right
handed little
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Gm
Eb
Servants of the Lord
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And then the atom bom
Verse 2
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Gm
Eb
b fell down on Hiroshima,
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Gm
The year she turned sixteen
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Bb
And she said,
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Gm
Eb
Bb
"There is something very wrong here.
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Gm
Do you know what I mean? Do you
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know what I mean?
Verse 3
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'Cause I got visions forming
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Bb
in my head
F
And I keep hearing what
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Bb
the preacher said
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Gm
Eb
Bb
Said this world will be the death of me
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Gm
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Bb
I know it will, it's bound to be
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Gm
Bound to be"
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Bb
F
Gm
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Bb
Verse 4
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Gm
Eb
Satchel full of broken hopes
Bb
and empty picture postcards
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Gm
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Bb
That she'd never send
Her mama sitting on the
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Gm
front porch step
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Bb
Daddy frowning in the darkened doorway,
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Gm
Eb
waving his regret
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F
Gm
Then she was jumping on the Santa Fe,
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Bb
F
summer night in 1947
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Eb
Bb
Bound for God knew where
F
And she said, "I can see de
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Bb
struction fast approaching.
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Gm
I feel it in the air. I
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Bb
feel it in the air.
Verse 5
F
Gm
And I got visions forming in my head
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Bb
(See the blood on the horizon)
F
Gm
And I keep hearing what
the preacher said
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Bb
(Said the truth will set you free)
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Gm
Said this world will be
the death of me
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Bb
(I got no one to rely on)
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Gm
Eb
I know it will, it's bound to be."
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Cm
(Except for me...)
Verse 6
Bb
On a road in Valparaiso,
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Bb
Cm
she met a hobo named Old John
They hunkered down in a gazebo,
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Eb
Bb
and chose a star to gaze upon
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Bb
Old John said he could see her slipping,
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Bb
Cm
and he asked her what was wrong
She said, "The rope I had been
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F
Bb
gripping turned to sand
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Dm
And now it's gone,
Interlude 1
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F
Gm
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F
Gm
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Verse 7
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Gm
Eb
Can't you see the writing on
Bb
the blood soaked blue horizon
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Gm
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Bb
Plain as VJ day.
Hear the barking of the
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Gm
Drowning dogs,
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Bb
frozen like so many Eisenhower
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Gm
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Bb
Statues in Pompei. I think
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I'll take another taste
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Eb
Old John, to numb my heart,
Bb
God knows I'm falling fast as
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Gm
Atoms through the sky."
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Bb
She said,
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Gm
Eb
"This world it sure ain't no place to live in
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F
Gm
But it ain't no place to die. No it ain't
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F
no place to die..."
Gm
CHORUS
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Bb
Verse 8
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Gm
Eb
Bb
F
Gm
BILL DEASY: lead vocals,
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Bb
acoustic guitar
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Gm
Eb
Bb
DAVE
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F
RAY DEFADE: drums
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Bb
F
Gm
JOANNA ITHEN: vocals ("See the
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F
Gm
Eb
Bb
blood on the horizon." etc.)
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Gm
Eb
Bb
SCOTT BLASEY & KELSEY BARBER: background
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Gm
vocals
Outro 1
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Bb
F
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