My Brother The Ape chords by
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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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Well, I got the invitation

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That you sent to everyone

And I told you family picnics

weren't exactly my idea of fun

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You replied that everyone but me

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said they were going to come

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Which is how you talked me

Verse 2

into going to the reunion

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When you said everyone,

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you really meant it

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My brother the

Verse 3

ape

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My brother the ape

Verse 4

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I received the photos you sent

And I don't regret that I went

Or the sight of everybody stiffly

posing under one tent

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But I don't feel I belong and

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I keep wanting to escape

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And I fail to see the likeness between

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me and my brother the ape

Verse 5

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They all kept saying (they all

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kept saying)

How much we look alike

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(how much we look alike)

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I don't think that we look alike at all

(I don't think that we look alike at all)

Verse 6

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But I'll admit that I look

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more like a chimp

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Than I look like my cousin the shrimp

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Or my distant kin the lichens

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Or the snowy egret or the moss

And I find it hard to recognize

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Some relatives of ours

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Like the rotifer, the sycamore

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Iguanas and sea stars

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My brother the

Verse 7

ape

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My brother the ape

Interlude 1

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Verse 8

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They say you don't get (they say you

don't get)

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To choose your family (to choose

your family)

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But there's no other one to choose (but there's no

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other one to choose)

Verse 9

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So that's why I'm writing this now

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And you can tell my sister the cow

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That I meant to thank

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her for the gorgonzola

And I'll allow that I've been

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acting like a stranger

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But you guys are all so strange

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Though I think of what I'm like

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And I can see we're all the same

Verse 10

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So this time next year,

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we'll meet at my place

Verse 11

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My brother the ape

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My brother the ape

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