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Clean Cut Kid chords by Linda Gail Lewis

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Everybody's actin' why he
couldn't adjust
Adjust to what?
A dream to bust
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They took a clean cut kid
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And they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
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They said what's up is down,
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they said what isn't is
They put ideas in his head
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that he thought were his
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They stripped the clean cut kid
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But they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
He was on the baseball team,
he was in the marching band
When he was ten years old,
he had a watermelon stand
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He was a clean -cut kid
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But they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
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They said, listen boy, you're just a pup
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They sent you to a napalm hella spa,
too shabby for
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They gave you dope to smoke,
drinks and pills
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A Jeep to drive and blood to spill
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They said, congratulations,
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you got what it
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They sent him back into the rat race
without any brakes
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They took the clean -cut kid
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But they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
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He fought the American dream,
but it put him in debt
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The only game he could play
was Russian Roulette
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He drank Coca -Cola,
he was eatin' undergrads
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He ate Burger King, he was well fed
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He went to Hollywood to
see Peter O'Toole
He stole a Rolls -Royce
and drove it in a swimmin' pool
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He was the King of Kings
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But they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
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He could have sold his shirts
on the Western or bar
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He could have bailed in a county
to watch tennis star
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He's wearing boxing gloves,
he took a dive one day
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Off the Golden Gate Bridge
and retired in bed
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His mama walked to the floor,
his daddy kicks and moans
They gotta sleep together
in a home they don't own
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They took a drink of gin
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And they made a killer out of him,
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that's what they did
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Everybody asked him what he did,
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but just all he ever wanted
was somebody to trust
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They took him in, they turned him inside out
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He never didn't know what it was all about
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He had a steady job, you know why
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He never did plan to walk the high wire
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They took a drink of kid
And they made a killer out of him
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That's what they did
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