Men chords by
Loudon Wainwright Iii
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
E

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B
B
2

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E
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A
A

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When a ship is sinking
B
B
2

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and they lower the lifeboats
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And hand out the life jackets,
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the men keep on their coats
The women and the children are
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the ones who must go first
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And the men who try to save their
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skins are cowards and are cursed
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Every
Verse 2
man's a captain,
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men know how to drown
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Man the lifeboats if there's room,
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otherwise go down
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B
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Verse 3
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E

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B
B
2

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And it's the same when there's a war
on: it's the men who go to fight
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Women and children are civilians,
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when they're killed it's not right
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2

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Men kill men in uniform,
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its the way war goes
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When they run they're cowards,
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when they stay they are heroes
Verse 4
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Every man's a general,
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men go off to war
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2

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The battlefields a man's world,
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cannon fodders what they're for
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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It's the men who have the power,
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B
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it's the men who have the might
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And the world's a place of horror because
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E

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each man thinks he's right
A man's home is his castle so
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the family let him in
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But what's im portant in that kingdom
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is the women and the children
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A husband
Verse 6
and a father,
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every man's a king
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But he's really just a drone,
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gathers no honey, has no sting
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Have pity on the general, the king,
and the captain
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They know they're expendable,
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after all they're men
Outro 1
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