Somebody Else chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
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Somebody
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else I knew just died
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Went away   of all flesh,
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but I can't say I cried
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When I heard  the sad news about him
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I thought, "he's off the hook,
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you're up next, Jim"
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Somebody else I
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knew just died

Verse 2
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Somebody else I  knew just passed
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We might be     built for speed,
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but we're not made to last
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And in the end a machine's obsolete
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And a life   is a thing
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death will defeat
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Somebody else I  knew just passed

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Interlude 1

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Verse 3
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He was a guy, just somebody I knew
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Once he paid me a compliment,
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right out of the blue
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I was so relieved it
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was he who was dead
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Just a guilty survivor,
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could've been me instead

Verse 4
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Somebody else I  knew is gone
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Ah, you don't  see it coming,
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but you know all along
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Still you can't quite be
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lieve that it's true
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How could  such a thing really
happen to you?
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Somebody else I knew is gone

Verse 5
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Somebody else I  knew is dead
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That's all she wrote,
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what else is said?
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He's not here,  but soon we'll join him
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Now he's   off the hook,
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you're up next, Jim
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Somebody else I  knew is dead