Helplessness Blues chords by
John Cowan
John Cowan

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Key: E major
Intro 1
Em
Em
F
F
Em
Em
D
D
Em
Em
F
F
Em
Em
D
D
G
G
Verse 1
D
D
Yes,
I was raised up believing
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G
I was somehow unique
D
D
Like a snowflake distinct
among snowflakes
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G
D
D
Unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking
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G
I'd say I'd much rather be
D
D
A functioning cog in some great machinery
A
A
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G
D
D
Serving something beyond me
But I don't know,
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G
I don't know what that will be
D
D
G
G
D
D
I'll get back to you someday,
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G
D
D
soon we'll see
What's my name?
What's my station?
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G
Well just tell me what I should do
D
D
I don't need to be kind to
the armies of night
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G
D
D
that would do such injustice to you
Em
Em
D
D
Oh, bow down and be grateful
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G
And say, sure, take all that you see
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D
To the men who move only in dim -lit halls
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G
D
D
And determine my future for me
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G
D
D
And I don't,
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G
I don't know who to believe
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D
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G
D
D
I'll get back to you someday,
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G
D
D
soon we'll see
Yeah, if I know only one thing
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G
It's that everything that I see
A
A
Of the world outside is so
Bm
Bm
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G
D
D
Em
Em
D
D
inconceivable
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G
And I can't keep it to myself
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D
What good is it to sing these
helplessness blues?
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A
G
G
should I wait for somebody else?
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D
And I know,
F#m
F#m
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G
I know you will keep me on the shelf
D
D
G
G
D
D
I'll come back to you someday soon
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F
Em
Em
D
D
You, must you
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A
Em
Em
D
D
Em
Em
If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm raw
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D
A
A
D
D
G
G
If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore
F#m
F#m
Em
Em
And you would wait tables
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D
G
G
and soon run the store
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D
Em
Em
Gold hair in the sun light,
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D
Em
Em
my light in the dawn
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D
G
G
If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore
D
D
F#m
F#m
D
D
Em
Em
If I had an orchard,
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D
G
G
A
A
D
D
Em
Em
G
G
Em
Em
D
D
Em
Em
I'd work till I'm sore
D
D
F#m
F#m
D
D
Em
Em
Someday I'll be like
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D
G
G
the man on the screen you

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