16 Year Grudge chords by Eric Andersen

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Verse 1
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Oh, mother and father,
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they like to play doctor.
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They ask what you're doing that for.
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You tried to be good,
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you did like you should.
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It's them who can't do it no more.
Now they're screamin',
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they're shoutin',
next they're kickin' you out
Expectin' you to come
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back through the door
They always put up a show
so the neighbors don't know
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Am 
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Bm 
That really you come from a morgue
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G 
C 
Oh please, I believe
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I'm gettin' restless
and I just gotta leave
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Oh, please, can't you see
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I  don't like what you're
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Bm 
doing with me?
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Well, I got nothing on you
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Why do you have to have
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something on me?
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Watch out, the government fights
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And if you're not very bright
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It's a matter of kill or be killed
And you ask them what for,
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they've had so many wars,
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why this one would cure any ills.
But you're taught to believe,
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you're happy and  free,
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you swallow it whole like a pill.
Yeah, but who wants to hate
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or change anyone's fate,
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enough to shoot a man over the hill.
Bm 
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Oh, please,
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I believe I'm getting restless
and I just gotta leave
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C 
Oh, please, can't you see
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C 
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Bm 
I  don't like what you're to me
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G 
Well, I got nothing on you
Why do you have to have
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something on me?
D 
The little boys in the class,
they never outlast
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to make it to the football field,
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where they huddle and  dream
for the cheerleader queen,
but all the girls know it's
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because of the bill.
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Since you're lousy in gym,
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you go with your friends,
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smoking the hall with great skill,
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And the prime you forgot
is you were out in the light
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Bm 
Turning on with the boys from the hill
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G 
Oh, please,
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I believe I'm getting restless
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and I just gotta leave
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Oh, please, can't  you see
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C 
D 
I  don't like what you're with me
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Well, I  got nothing on you,
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why do you have to have something on me?
So you go find a girl,
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you go escaping her curls,
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till fi nally she gives you a shove.
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Saying, though I know how,
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we can't do it now
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Besides, I was attacked at age twelve
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So you make it for the door,
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you pick yourself off the floor
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Trying anything just for a touch
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So she asks you again,
are you really her friend?
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Bm 
But much more, is this really love?
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Oh, please,
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I believe I'm getting restless
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and I just gotta leave
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Oh, please, can't you see
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C 
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I don't like what you're to me
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Well, I got nothing on you
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Why do you have to have
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G 
something on me?
Something I'm new
Something I'm new