Taking Your Life in Your Hands chords by
John Cale
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Key: Eb major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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The children
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A A 
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are all leaving school today
D D 
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E E 
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Mama said, don't worry,
A A 
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I'll be back one day
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E E 
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The blue men in uniform smiled
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and waved goodbye
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Em Em 
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G G 
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A A 
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She was hid ing those tears in her
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eyes

Interlude 1

Verse 2
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Roll up the history books,
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burn the chairs
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Set fire to anything,
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G G 
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set fire to the air
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They're hiding [riding?] to begin
Em Em 
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and run ning at the end
D D 
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'Cause mama said,
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A A 
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you take your life in your hands

Verse 3
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E E 
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A A 
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Taking your life, your life in your hands
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But don't take your life in your
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A A 
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hands like I did
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A A 
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I don't feel so bad,
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Bm Bm 
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and always look forward with hope
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Forward and hope that the children will always
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D D 
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be there

Interlude 2

Cancel the day,

Verse 4
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cancel the night
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A A 
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Cancel the day, cancel the night
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Bm Bm 
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'Cause who could be watching
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Bm Bm 
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when she steals and runs away
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Bm Bm 
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A A 
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Full of hysterical laughter, and say

Verse 5
D D 
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Mama, mama
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I've left school today
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E E 
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I hope I get to see you in that
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funny school far away
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A A 
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But those gentlemen in blue,
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and those in grey
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Asus4 Asus4 
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D D 
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Say I'll never, never see mama again

Verse 6
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'Cause she took those lives in her hands
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D D 
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Yes, she took all those
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A A 
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lives in her hands
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E E 
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Yes, she took all those lives
A A 
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in her hands
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But let me wonder,
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D D 
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A A 
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D D 
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A A 
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what was there left in those hands?

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