Last Great American Whale chords by
Lou Reed
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
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They say he didn't have an enemy
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His was a greatness to behold
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He was the last surviving progeny
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The last one on this side of the world
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He measured half a mile from tip to tail
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silver and black with powerful
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fins
They say he could split
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a mountain in two
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That's how we got the Grand Canyon
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Some say they saw him
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at the Great Lakes
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Some say they saw him off the coast
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of Florida
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My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
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but you can't always trust your mother.
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Off the Carolinas the sun
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shines brightly in the day
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The lighthouse glows
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ghostly there are night
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The chief of a local tribe had killed
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a racist mayor's son
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and he'd been on death row
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since 1958
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The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
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spit on Indians and lots worse
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The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
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life compared to death
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for him seemed worse
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The tribal brothers gathered
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in the lighthouse to sing
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and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
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The harbor parted and the great
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whale sprang full up
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and caused a huge tidal wave
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The wave crushed the jail
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and freed the chief
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The tribe let out a roar
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The whites were drowned
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the browns and reds set free
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but sadly one thing more
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Some local yokel member
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of the NRA
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kept a bazooka in his living room
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and thinking he had the chief
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in his sights
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blew the whale's brains out with a lead
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harpoon
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Well Americans don't care
for much of anything
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land and wa ter the least
And animal life is low on the
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totem pole
with human life not worth much
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more than infected yeast
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Americans don't care too much
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for beauty
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They'll shit in a river,
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dump battery acid in a stream
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They'll watch dead rats
wash up on the beach
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and complain if they can't swim
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They say things are done
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for the majority
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Don't believe half of what you see
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and none of what you hear
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It's a lot like what my painter
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friend Donald said to me
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"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over,
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they're done"
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