Babies Falling chords by
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields

N/A
Key: C major
Verse 1
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Eb
Bb
Bb
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Eb
Where the workers stand in querulous
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Bb
C
C
rows awaiting dislocation
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Bb
I will be there too
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Eb
When you're cashing in
your food stamps
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Bb
Eb
Eb
When you're sleeping in a cattle train
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Bb
I'll be
Verse 2
with you
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Eb
Pushing up against the ticket counter window
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Bb
face against the glass
Fm
Fm
Eb
Eb
C
C
Bleeding from the waist an
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Eb
Bb
Bb
d kissing to be chaste
Eb
Eb
It is said that those who will not
rest have been cursed
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Bb
To tramp like soldiers through the marshes
Verse 3
Eb
Eb
Or that blessed are the ones who
leave the stage
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Bb
Like babies falling fast asleep
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Eb
So I twice am cursed and twice
am stuck
C
C
Eb
Eb
Bb
Bb
Affixed to this corner of the earth.
Verse 4
C
C
That old river keeps on rolling
but the old man doesn't see it,
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Bb
C
C
He just stands there with his eyes closed
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Bb
C
C
Eb
Eb
Bb
Bb
Asking "Where'd you go?" "Where'd you go?"
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Eb
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C
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Bb
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Verse 5
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So wherever you may sleep tonight,
Be it bed or bedrock,
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home, or open field:
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When you begin to yield,
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Bb
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then, whatever you have taken as your pillow,
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May it serve as mine as well.
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Underneath the weeping
Verse 6
willow
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C
I will wait for you forever,
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Bb
My eyes forever closed,
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Eb
C
C
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Eb
asking "Where'd you go?" "Where'd you go?"
Bb
Bb
Eb
Eb
C
C
Bb
Bb
Eb
Eb

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Bb C Fm F