God Bless the Absentee chords by Paul Simon
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
Lord (E minor) I (D major) am (A major) a working man
And (E minor) music is (D major) (A major) my trade
(Asus4) I'm trav (E minor) eling (D major) with this (A major) 5 piece band
I play (B major) the ace of spades (D sharpdim) (B major)
(E minor) I have a (D major) wife (F sharp minor) and family, (G major)
(G sharpdim) don't (A minor) see (G major) much of me (D major) (D minor)
God (E major) bless the (B flat major) absentee (A major)
(E minor) (D major) (A major) (E minor) (D major)
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Verse 2
(A major)
Lord (E minor) I (D major) am (A major) a surgeon
And (E minor) music (D major) is (A major) my knife
It cuts (E minor) away (D major) (A major) my sorrow
And pur (B major) ifies my life
But (E minor) if I (D major) could release (G major) my heart (G sharpdim)
From veins (A minor) and ar (G major) teries
(D major) (D minor) I'd say (F major) God (E minor) bless (E major) the
(B flat major) absentee
(A major) (E minor) (D major) (A major)
Verse 3
(D minor)
I miss my woman so (C sharp major)
I mis (B flat minor) s my bed (F major) (Bdim)
I miss those soft (B flat major) places
I used (B major) to lay (Bsus4) my head (B major)
Interlude 1
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(G major) (G sharpdim) (A minor) (G major) (D major) (F major) (E minor) (B flat major) (A major) (E minor) (D major) (A major)
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Verse 4
My son don't (D minor) need me yet (C sharp major)
(B flat minor) His bones are soft (F major)
He (Bdim) flies a silver air (B flat major) plane
He wears (Bsus4) a golden cross
Verse 5
God (E minor) bless the (D major) absent (A major) ee Lord
This country's (E minor) changed so (D major) fast (A major)
The future (E minor) (D major) is (A major) the present
The present's (B major) in the past
The highways (E minor) (F sharp minor) are in litiga (G major) tion (G sharpdim)
The airports (A minor) (G major) disagree (D major) (D minor)
(E major) God bless the (B flat major) absent (A major) ee
Outro 1
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God Bless the Absentee
Paul Simon
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