Letters To The Vatican chords by Ruben Blades

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Rosy sits inside a bar
Smoking a large man's cigar
In a place called Sammy's
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on Amsterdam Avenue
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She doesn't look a day
over sixty -five
Although she's really twenty -nine
She likes records from the sixties
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They remind her of the good old times
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Em 
And after some wine and scotch
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Em 
Rosie starts to let it hang out
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Throws the glass at the mirror
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And asks Big Max for a pen
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She writes a  letter to the Vatican
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I'm gonna write a letter to him
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Dear Pope, send me some soap
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D 
And a bottle of Bombay gin
A letter to the Vatican,
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D 
I thought I'd write a letter to him
Dear Pope, send me some hope
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or a rope to do me in
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Em 
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And no one stops her, we all lend a  hand
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Em 
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We all knew her before she got this mad
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We just hold her until the
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shaking stops
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Because her heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Because her heart says
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what only the heart knows
I wanna hear some Diana Ross
I want to hear a little bit of Marvin Gaye
I want to hear a song
that reminds me of a bad ass day
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Rosie Slick tries to stand up
She slices a pretty girl in the mouth
And running to the jukebox
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She tries to put a quarter in
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She says, I've had enough of you men
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Em 
And I'll never say yes again
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Em 
It's His holiness or noth
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ing for me in this life
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So she writes a  letter to the Vatican
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I'm gonna write a letter to Him
Dear Pope, send me some soap
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and a bottle of Bombay gin
A letter to the Vatican,
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I'm gonna write a letter to him
Dear Pope, send me some hope
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or a rope to tune me in
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Em 
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C 
And no one stops her, we all lend a  hand
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See, we all knew her before
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she got this mad
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We just hold her until
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the shaking stops
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Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Em 
Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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Because the heart says
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what only the heart knows
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