Bad Man chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
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Hey, everybody, we're having a war
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Bigger and better than the
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one before
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Remember that
Panamanian strongman
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Yeah, we took him to
Miami and we locked him
in the can
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In
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Panama
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City, they're living in tents
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War is hell and it don't make sense
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Still some folks can't
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understand
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And why we kill good people
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just to get a bad man
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Hey everybody we're having a war
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So far I haven't shown a
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whole lot of gore
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Yellow ribbons and
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American flags
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So far not a lot of body bags
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Support the troops,
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Sodom sucks
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Bumper  sticker t -shirt,
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earn a few bucks
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Still some folks can't understand
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Why we kill good people just to
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get a bad man
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Not a mustang
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And hey everybody,
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we're having a war
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When will it end, and what is it for?
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Two weeks, six months,
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maybe a year
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We're gonna win,
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but when's not clear
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We're fighting on foreign sandy soil
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For our way of life, we want their oil
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Still some folks can't understand
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Why we kill good people for a way of life
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And   to get a bad man
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Yeah
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Now the cruel hoax
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Hey everybody we're having a war
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We got news coverage galore
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Glued to the tube on the
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CNN
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Showing that videotape again
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But after a while it's no big deal
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You flip over to the
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Simpsons, it seems more real
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Still some folks can't understand
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Why we kill good people just to
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get a bad man
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Now hey everybody,
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we're having a war
Now we're knockin' on
Sodom's door
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Let's get one thing understood
That
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Saddam is no damn good
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You went in there and you raped
Kuwait
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We want him but now it's too late
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We're gonna take out the buildings,
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bridges and the roads
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Concrete, flesh and bone explodes
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And if good people have
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That's just the way war is, that's why
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Still some folks can't understand
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why we kill good people
A whole lot of people!