Beginning Of A Great Adventure chords by Lou Reed

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Intro 1
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It might be fun to have a kid that I could

Verse 1
kick around
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a little me to fill up with my thoughts
A little me or he or she to fill
up with my dreams
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a way of saying life is not a loss

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Verse 2

I'd keep the tyke away from

school and tutor him myself

keep him from the poison

of the crowd

But then again pristine isolation

might not be the best idea

it's not good trying to immortalize

yourself

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Beginning of a great adventure

Beginning of

a great adventure

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Why stop at one, I might have ten,
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a regular TV brood
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I'd breed a little liberal army
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in the wood
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Just like these redneck lunat
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ics I see at the local bar
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with their tribe of mutant inbred
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piglets with cloven hooves
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I'd teach 'em how to plant

Verse 5
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a bomb,
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start a fire, play guitar
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and if they catch a hunter,
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shoot him in the nuts
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I'd try to be as progressive as
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as long as I don't have to try
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too much
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Beginning

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of a great adven

ture

Beginning of a great adventure

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Verse 7
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Susie, Jesus, Bogart, Sam,
Leslie, Jill and Jeff
Rita, Winny, Andy, Fran and Jet
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Boris, Bono, Lucy, Ethel, Bunny,
Reg and Tom
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that's a lot of names to
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try not  to forget

Verse 8
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Carrie, Marlon, Mo and Steve,
La Rue and Jerry Lee
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Eggplant, Rufus, Dummy, Star and The Glob
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I'd need a damn computer
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to keep track of all these names
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I hope this baby thing don't go too far
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I hope it's true what my wife said to me

Verse 9
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I hope it's true what
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my wife said to me, hey
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I hope it's true what my wife said to me
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She says,

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"Baby,

it's the beginning of a great adventure"

"Babe, beginning of a great

adventure"

Interlude 1
take a look
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It might be fun to have a kid

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that I could kick around
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create in my own image like a god
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I'd raise my own pallbearers
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to carry me to my grave
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and keep me company when I'm a wizened
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toothless clod

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Some gibbering old fool sitting all
alone drooling on his shirt
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some senile old fart playing
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in the dirt
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It might be fun to have a kid I could
pass something on to
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something better than rage, pain,
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anger and hurt
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I hope it's

Verse 13
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true what my wife said to me
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I hope it's true what my wife said to me
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I hope it's true what
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my wife said to me
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She says, "Lou, it's the beginning
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of a great adventure"
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"Lou, Lou, Lou,
beginning of a great adventure"
She says, "babe,
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how you call your lover boy"
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"Sylvia, quite you call your lover man"
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