Tonart: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When people twist your words, Woodrow, ah, they'll twist at every whim
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It's thugs that run the unions now
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and use your songs like hymns
Verse 2
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Once, your music danced on women's
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thighs and the arch of a hobo's brow
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Aw, Mrs. Guthrie look what they done
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to your brown- eyed baby now
Oh, the trains leave every morning,
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some go east and some go west
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And the clacking of the iron is
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the sound you love the best
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It's the great escape from railroad bulls
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and the Coney Island girls
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Aw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what we done
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to your brown eyed boy with curls
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Sing the truth, scream it loud
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Verse 3
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look what they done to your brown- eyed baby now
All those boxcars full of Chinese junk,
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the caboose has been junk piled
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And we're all buying groceries now from
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men with crooked smiles
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wild misogyneer and your politics were crude
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As you sat home writing nursery
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rhymes and drawing women nude
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And all those politicians breaths stink bad,
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be they left or be they right
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And the ones who play with rhetoric
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are not the ones to fight
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Don't go coming 'round here, Woodrow,
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they'll stretch you from a rope
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And your corpse won't ever find a bar
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where a man can drink and smoke
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Repeat Sing the truth, scream it loud
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Verse 5
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Aw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what they done
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to your brown- eyed baby now
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Instrumental
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Verse 6
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Did you hear the screen door slam, Ma,
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Woodrow's gone again
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He's writin' obscene letters now,
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the Feds might bring him in
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But every song he ever wrote is
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hangin' on the breeze
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With the laundry in the Guthrie yard
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full of Huntington's disease
So, Woodrow, rest in peace, old pal,
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there ain't nothin' for you here
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We're in the scrub oak country now,
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the land of dread an' fear
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And whitey's in the wood pile and
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the writing's on the wall
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But your ring of truth still echoes down
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the Greystone clinic hall
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Repeat Sing the truth, scream it loud
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Verse 7
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look what they done to your brown- eyed baby now
So here's to all outsiders,
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all the ones who could not fit
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The troubadour, the prisoners,
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the wounded lovers will make it through somehow
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we are ridin' blind with your brown eyed baby now
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Sing the truth scream it loud
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look what we done to your brown- eyed baby now
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Sing the truth, scream it loud
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look what we done to your brown- eyed baby now
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