Another Age chords by Phil Ochs

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
There's a man walking
E 
Am 
round the island with a snake cane
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Am 
He picked it up in
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Am 
Thailand from a hurricane
C 
And you know he's not
G 
gonna go there
Em 
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G 
He's been one time too long
C 
Now all the gods are gone
Am 
(Though the game is gone)
The younger boys are drowning
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Am 
in a shallow sea
The night belongs to snipers
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Am 
E 
Am 
in palm trees
C 
G 
And their sabres flashed like lightning
Em 
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G 
In the charge of the last brigade
C 
They must have been afraid
E 
Soldiers have their sorrow
F 
Dm 
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged it's
G 
the dawn of another age
Am 
Of another age
C 
Of another age
Am 
F 
G 
Am 
Of another age
E 
The blood running down the blackboard on a
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blank(?) screen (in a thin stream?)
The convicts shake their cages
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Am 
of a bad dream
C 
And they'll coach you in the classroom
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Em 
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G 
that it cannot happen here
C 
Am 
But it has happened here
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Am 
I remember nothing that I memorized (The cockroach
cops are crawling on a battle ground)
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Am 
I got my education from a black eye (The shields are in the shadows,
it's a college town)
C 
G 
And they'll teach you law and order
Em 
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G 
If you dare to raise your hand
C 
Spare the glove and spoil the man
E 
Soldiers have their sorrow
F 
Dm 
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged
G 
It's the dawn of another age
Am 
Of another age
C 
Am 
F 
G 
Am 
Of another age
Thomas Paine and Jesse
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Am 
James are old friends
And Robin Hood is riding
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Am 
on the road again
C 
G 
We were born in a revolution and
Em 
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G 
we died in a wasted war
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Am 
It's gone that way before
The dogs are chasing chicken
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Am 
bones across the lawn
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Am 
If that was an election, I'm a Viet Cong
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G 
So I pledge allegiance against the flag
Em 
and the (fall,flaw,cloth?) for
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G 
which it stands
I'll raise raze it
C 
if I can
(Pledge allegiance to the land)
E 
Soldier have their sorrow
F 
Dm 
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged
G 
It's the dawn of another age
Am 
Of another age
F 
Of another age
E 
Of another age