Spit Before You Swallow chords by Peter Allen

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Everybody's preaching
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how to bring this world together
Everybody's pushing love
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to make it last forever
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Everybody's got the way
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to make things right
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But in their mind you'll find they're blind
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to any kind of sign that they're uptight
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You've got to learn to spit
before you swallow
You've got to learn to give
before you borrow
And before you can leave
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you've got to follow
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So before I die as someone else
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C 
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I'm gonna take good care of myself
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I  can't help but feel I'm
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under investigation
By the local branch of the women's
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and the gay boys' liberation
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Living makes you crazy
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Bbsus4 
if your head is not       on straight
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Don't no one say to stay in previews
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the way I may delay my day of fate
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No, you've got to learn to spit
before you swallow
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C 
You've got to learn to give
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before you borrow
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And before you can leave,
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you've got to follow
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So before I die as someone else
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I'm gonna take good care of myself
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Bbsus4 
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Da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da
Da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da
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Da -da -da, da -da -da,
da -da -da -da -da -da -da
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If I seem to be just a
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bundle of confusion
Well I could use a transplant
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or at least a mind transfusion
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Nothing makes much sense,
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the words keep hanging in my ear
Bbsus4 
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I         started out to shop
when I'm about
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But now I doubt I'm even here
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You've got to learn to spit
before you swallow
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C 
You've got to learn to give
before you borrow
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C 
And before you can lead,
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you've got to follow
Adim 
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So before I die or someone else,
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C 
I'm gonna take good care of myself
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Take good care of my self
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Take good care of myself
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La -da -da -da -da -da -da -da
La -da -da -da -da -da -da
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La da da da, la da da da,