Lenny Bruce chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
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Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Lenny Bruce is dead
Verse 1
but his
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Dsus4
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ghost lived on and on
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Never did get any Golden Globe award,
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never made it to Synanon
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He was an outlaw,
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that's for sure
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More of an outlaw than you
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ever were
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Lenny Bruce is gone but his
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Dsus4
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spirit's living on and on.
Verse 2
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Maybe he had some problems,
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maybe some things that he couldn't work out
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But he sure was funny and he sure told the truth and
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he knew what he was talking about
Never robbed any churches,
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nor cut of any babies heads
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He just took the folks in high places
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and he shined a light in their beds
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He's on some other shore,
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he didn't want to live any more.
Verse 3
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Lenny Bruce is dead but he did
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n't commit any crime
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He just had the insight to rip off
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the lid before its time
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I rode with him in a taxi once,
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only for a mile and a half
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Seemed like it took a couple
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of months
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Lenny Bruce moved on and like the
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ones that killed him, gone.
Verse 4
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They say he was sick 'cause he
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didn't play by the rules
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He just showed the wise men of his day
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to be nothing more than fools
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They stamped him and they labeled him
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like they do with pants and shirts
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He fought a war on a battlefield where
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every vic tory hurts
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Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that
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Dsus4
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you never had.
Outro 1
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