How We Get The News chords by Tom Wilson Weinberg

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Intro 1

Message

Verse 1
on Your
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G 
Machine  (E minor)  (G major) 
C 
Message on Your Machine  (C major) 
F 
A  (F major) letter comes back, addressee unknown
Bb 
You pick up the  (B flat major) phone
Gm 
You  (G minor) hear his mother's voice
Eb 
sounding so alone  (E flat major) 
Gm 
G 
Gm 
G 
A 
How we get the  (G minor) news (G major)  (G minor)  (G major)  (A major) 
I was running on to Laura,
Bm 
 (B minor) cutting Alan to the quick.
C#m 
 (C sharp minor) Laura lifts her hand to stop me,
Bm 
A 
 (B minor) gently tells me Alan's  (A major) sick.
I absorb the news in silence,
Bm 
 (B minor) knowing she will let it pass.
C#m 
F#m 
 (C sharp minor) Yet I can't refrain  (F sharp minor) from saying,
Bm 
E 
A 
E 
 (B minor) I think Alan's  (E major) still an  (A major) as (E major) s.
A 
 (A major) Grandma,
C#m 
A 
B 
 (C sharp minor)  (A major) reading Obits?  (B major) 
E 
Trusting  (E major) in the times,
A 
all the news that  (A major) fits.
D 
 (D major) She says she's watching
for her own demise.
Bm 
G 
I say my crowd  (B minor) dies  (G major) 
Em 
Twice  (E minor) as fast as yours,
C 
she says, mazel tov  (C major) 
Em 
E 
A 
That deserves a  (E minor) prize?  (E major)  (A major) 
E 
B 
Marvin, six o 'clock news  (E major)  (B major) 
E 
A 
Look (E major) ing very thin trumpeting his  (A major) views.
D 
 (D major) The commentator is bearing the cross,
G 
focusing on  (G major) loss.
Em 
 (E minor) Then Marvin slyly shares
C 
that he made the  (C major) choice,
E 
never more to floss.  (E major) 
C 
Em 
 (C major) Carlos  (E minor) comes into the bookstore,
F 
 (F major) frequent patron and a friend.
C 
Dm 
 (C major) Wanders up and down the aisles,  (D minor) 
C 
asks me what I'd  (C major) recommend.
He reads twice as much as I do,
Dm 
 (D minor) never sought advice before.
Em 
Am 
He  (E minor) says, can't tell by  (A minor) their covers,
Dm 
G 
C 
not  (D minor) with time for so few.  (G major)  (C major) 
Message, all out of tears,
G 
in (G major) fo on a friend.
C 
You haven't seen for  (C major) years.
F 
 (F major) You pass a person who used to be built.
Bb 
Watch a flower wilt.  (B flat major) 
Gm 
You  (G minor) come across a name
Eb 
visiting the  (E flat major) quilt
G 
How we get the news  (G major) you