Babies Falling chords by
The Magnetic Fields
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Key: C major
Verse 1
C
C

G
G

C
C

Where the workers stand in querulous
G
G

A
A

rows awaiting dislocation
G
G

I will be there too
C
C

When you're cashing in
your food stamps
G
G

C
C

When you're sleeping in a cattle train
G
G

I'll be
Verse 2
with you
C
C

Pushing up against the ticket counter window
G
G

face against the glass
Dm
Dm

C
C

A
A

Bleeding from the waist an
C
C

G
G

d kissing to be chaste
C
C

It is said that those who will not
rest have been cursed
G
G

To tramp like soldiers through the marshes
Verse 3
C
C

Or that blessed are the ones who
leave the stage
G
G

Like babies falling fast asleep
C
C

So I twice am cursed and twice
am stuck
A
A

C
C

G
G

Affixed to this corner of the earth.
Verse 4
A
A

That old river keeps on rolling
but the old man doesn't see it,
G
G

A
A

He just stands there with his eyes closed
G
G

A
A

C
C

G
G

Asking "Where'd you go?" "Where'd you go?"
D
D

G
G

C
C

A
A

G
G

D
D

G
G

C
C

A
A

G
G

Verse 5
C
C

So wherever you may sleep tonight,
Be it bed or bedrock,
G
G

home, or open field:
C
C

When you begin to yield,
G
G

C
C

then, whatever you have taken as your pillow,
G
G

May it serve as mine as well.
D
D

A
A

Underneath the weeping
Verse 6
willow
C
C

A
A

I will wait for you forever,
G
G

My eyes forever closed,
C
C

A
A

C
C

asking "Where'd you go?" "Where'd you go?"
G
G

C
C

A
A

G
G

C
C

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ChordsC G A Dm D

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