Tonart: C major•
Intro 1
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Em
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Why are some men born
Verse 1
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With minds that earn degrees
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The loving cups
Gilded plaques
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Grace their study walls
Hide the cracks
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While their genius is turned
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Dm
To works of tyranny then
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Off to market to market
Go selling these
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Dm
Verse 2
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With words so fiery and persuasive
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They steal cunningly
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Riches no one can exceed
Verse 3
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Em
And why are some men born
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With a fate of poverty
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The bodies wracked while
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Their obedience is had
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By the pace by the pace
And the urgency
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Dm
Verse 4
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Through a muddled thought
They phrase it
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Dm
God knows we're deceived
What they need
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Verse 5
The noble peasantry
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Verse 6
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O how it puzzles me
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Verse 7
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I pressed flat the accordion pleats
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Em
That had gathered in his cotton sleeves
G
Yes, thumbed, I wouldn't say caressed
Verse 8
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Soon to reply assuredly
Verse 9
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Dm
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O for man aged ninety years
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No words to waste on sermons
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He'd be pleased to answer
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Verse 10
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Girl there's a nonsense
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In all these heaven measures
So your grandma says
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But better to live by...
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Drink it all in before it's dry
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Verse 11
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He ended there with a rattle
Cough, cough
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I took away the long gone cold
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coffee cup
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As a trail of Camel ashes fell
On the floor
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