Great Unknown chords by
Dar Williams

N/A

Key: G major•

Verse 1
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Once upon a time there was
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a nuclear  family,
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D D 
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An  d we lived in a family time,
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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And we'd unite in a family way.
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And off in the ancient mountain,
They were splitting every nucleus.
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They said, "Don't be alarmed,
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C C 
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Just don't try this at home."

Verse 2
C C 
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And they were the mystery
that made the world run
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G G 
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And we  had the power,
'cause they were the sun
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And we called them our heroes,
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and the fu ture had come.
C C 
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They said, "Look at the light
we're giving you,
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And the darkness we're saving
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you from."
D D 
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Soon they were bringing it into our

Verse 3
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showroom,
C C 
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And they'd unveil it with it's title,
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Bring your family, bring your family,
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It's the great unknown.
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You can look, but you can't fathom,
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It's the Great Unknown.
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C C 
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Verse 4
G G 
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I'm no ordinary princess,
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I was born in the Cold War,
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And my team is the Rockets,
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D D 
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Go team, it's a dangerous time
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And I dream of the moon and
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building lunar clone colonies.
C C 
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And I build my peace with strength,
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That's the best weapon you've got.
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Oh, I am the brainchild, I am the mortar,
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With a plastic trophy and
an eating disorder,
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Bm Bm 2
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And vision as big as a great big wall,
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And they tell me that I'll move forward
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For the good of us all,
And the good of nuclear families all.

Verse 5
G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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And  they think I  think I am important.
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I know I never was, no, I wasn't.
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No, I never,  and how could I be?
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A A 
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It's the great unknown.
C C 
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Now we've built it, now it's ticking,
A A 
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It's the great unknown.

Verse 6
C C 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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And I am your children, I am millions
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And I wanted to sell out, I wanted to try,
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C C 
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But the sky got too low
D D 
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And the ocean got too high.
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D D 
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Em Em 
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And I tried to take God into my own hands
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Am I too late? Is it over?
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Have I sacrificed my family to
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the great unknown?
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There's a war between my conscience
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and the great unknown.

Interlude 1

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Verse 7
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So I walked out into the gamma fields
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Bm Bm 2
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Out in Mercury, Nevada.
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Where I stood in circle,
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D D 
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And that circle started to pray.
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And the wind at the nuclear test sites
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Floats the data of the radiation.
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D D 
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From the underground testing,
Cross the line,
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you'll get arrested.
And we came from all over
in a silent appeal
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G G 
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As the drill comes down like
a presidential seal.
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And we stand for the living,
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and we stand for the dead,
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And we looked out to see
your enemies,
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And we see that you're

Verse 8
looking all at us instead.
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D D 
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An d you think I am being disruptive?
C C 
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But no, I'm running home,
I'm running,
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'Cause I'm trying to put the
C C 
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atom back together.
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It's the great unknown.
C C 
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I'm just trying to put the
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atom back together.
C C 
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It's the great unknown.