Relief chords by Hunters & Collectors

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Intro 1

You can't make mother

Verse 1
cry
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You can't make her twist
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her ragged hair
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You can't make mother groan
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Even when her soldier sonny
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shakes his iron cocktail in the air...
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You can't make mother cry
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You can't make her give consent
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Though she flounders
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at the drainboard
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Though her back be down
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there and bent
If sleeping brings relief
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She can go lie
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down and slumber
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If sleeping brings   relief
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She can go lie down and slumber
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If sleeping brings relief
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She can go... lie down
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and slumber...
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Slumber
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She puts her hands down into the sink
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Scrapes the grunge up
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off the bottom
Down there beneath the dishes
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Where the knives lie crossed
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and waiting
She can't stop the kiddies talking
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Their tongues be loosed
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upon the world
They flap until they lather
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For the agony of millions
And if sleeping brings relief
They can go lie down and slumber
And if sleeping brings relief
Asus4 
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They can go lie
Asus4 
down and slumber
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And if sleeping brings relief
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They can... go lie
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down and slumber
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Slumber...
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And there be no release from anguish
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For this slapstick generation
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And there be no peace for all the kiddies
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'Cause they're too
satisfied to care
And the field of gorgeous bodies
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Primed and ready in the sun
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And the white flag of peace
That is hanging
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Limp and useless in the air...
And the white flag of peace
That is hanging
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Limp and useless in the air, yeah!
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And if sleeping brings relief
You can all go lie down and slumber
And if sleeping brings relief
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You can go lie down
and slumber...