Key: G major
Verse 1
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Bb
Words and music by Arlo Guthrie
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Csus4
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Csus4
C
Verse 2
In the
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event of my demise
Be sure to include this statement
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When you are bent on
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closing my eyes
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Thinking about what my life meant
Verse 3
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Alone on a hill back in '65
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Things looked a lot like changing
Singing our songs that we
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harmonized
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Dreaming of worlds rearranging
Verse 4
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And I don't know why I'm
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singing tonight
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Maybe it's time someone told you
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Just because you say you've
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seen the light
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Doesn't mean nobody sold you
Verse 5
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I can remember all of your smiles
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During the demonstrations
Taking on what seemed like
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the whole world
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Igniting the hearts of our nations
Verse 6
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And together we sang our
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G
Am
victory songs
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Though we were worlds apart
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Every thing then has now passed away
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Except for the love in my heart
Interlude 1
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Am
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Verse 7
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Sitting at home on com
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puterized beds
Gm
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Tryine to come to conclu sions
Seeing reflections from rose-
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colored heads
Ignoring the states of illusion
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Verse 8
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Drunk in a world of material wealth
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No one can notice you falling
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Fantastic flights once
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good tor your health
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Now make you deaf to your calling
Verse 9
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And all alone the prophet groans
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With words as yet un seen
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Who'll be awake when
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the master returns
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Who will be lost in their dream
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s
Interlude 2
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Verse 10
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So in the event of my demise
8e sure to include this statement
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Only the words of love kept alive
Are worthy of not being wasted
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