Boots Of Spanish Leather chords by Julie Felix
Verse 1
Am
Darkness at the break of noon,
C
shadows even the silver spoon
D
The handmade blade,
the child's balloon,
F
ec lipses both the sun and moon
E
To un derstand, you know, too soon,
Am
C
Am
there is no sense in try ing
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
C
Suicide remarks are torn
D
From the fool's gold mouthpiece,
the hollow horn
F
Lays wasted words which
prove to warn
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That he not busy being born,
Am
C
Am
he's busy dying
Temptations, page flies out the door
C
You follow, find yourself at war
D
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
F
You feel the moan, but unlike before
E
You discover that you'll just be one
Am
C
Am
more person crying
E
So don't fear if you hear
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D
A foreign sound to your ear
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E
D
E
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C
Am
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sane
As some warn victory, some downfall
C
Private reasons, great or small
D
Can be seen in the eyes of those who call
F
To make everything that should
be killed a crawl
E
While others say,
don't hate nothing at all except
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hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets spark
C
As human gods aim for their mark
D
Am
Make everything from toy guns that spark
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To flesh -coloured
Christ that glow in the dark
E
It's easy to see without looking too far
Am
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
C
And teachers teach that knowledge waits
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can lead to hundred -dollar plates and
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goodness hides behind its gates
E
but even the President of the United States
Am
must sometimes have to stand naked
E
The rules of the road have been lost
A
It's only people's games
D
you gotta dodge
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E
D
E
But it's alright, Ma,
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C
Am
I can make it
Advertising signs that con you
C
Into thinking you're the one
D
That can do what's never been done
F
That can win what's never been won
E
Meanwhile life outside goes
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on all around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
C
You suddenly find you've
got nothing to fear
D
Alone you stand with no one near
F
When a trembling,
distant voice unclear
E
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
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they've re -found you
A question in your nerves is lit
C
Yet you know that there's no answer fit
D
To satisfy you and ensure
you're not to quit
Dm
F
To keep it in your mind and not forget
E
That it's not he, or she, or them,
Am
C
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or it that you belong to
E
Although the masters make the rules
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D
For the wise men and the fools
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E
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I got nothing more to live
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C
Am
C
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up to
The blemished must obey authority
C
That they do not respect in any degree
D
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
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Speak jealously of those that are free
E
Cultivate their flowers just to be
Nothing more than something
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they invested
While some on principles baptized
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To strict party platform ties
D
Social clubs in drag disguise
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Outsiders they can freely criticize
E
Tell nothing except who to idolize
Am
C
Am
And then they say, God bless you
While one who sings with
his tongue on fire
C
Gargles in the rat race choir
D
Bent out of shape by society's pliers
F
Cares not to come up any higher
E
But rather gets you down
in the hole that he's in
Am
C
Am
But I mean no harm,
E
nor put fault
A
D
On anyone who lives in a vault
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E
D
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But it's alright, Ma,
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if I can't please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
C
Limited in sex they dare
D
To push false morals, insult and stare
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While money doesn't talk it swears
E
Obscenity, who really cares?
Am
Propaganda on it's phoney
While them that defend
what they cannot see
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With a killer's pride, security
D
It blows their minds most bitterly
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For them to think that
death's honesty
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Won't fall upon them naturally
Am
C
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Like sometimes, must get lonely
My eyes collide head on
C
with stuffed graveyards
D
False gods, I scuff at pettiness
Which plays so rough
F
Walk upside down inside handcuffs
E
Kick my legs to crash it off
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Say, okay, I've had enough
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Am
What else can you show me?
And if my thought dreams
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could be seen
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D
They'd probably put my head in a gate
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D
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But it's alright, Ma
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Am
C
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It's life, and life only
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Boots Of Spanish Leather
Julie Felix
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