The Ballad of Charles Whitman chords by Kinky Friedman

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Verse 1
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He was sitting up there
for more than an hour
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Way up there on the Texas Tower
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Shooting from the twenty-seventh
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floor floor Yahoo!
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He didn't choke or slash or slit them
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Not our Charles Joseph Whitman
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He won't be an architect no more
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Got up that morning calm and cool
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He picked up his guns and walked to school
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All the while he smiled so sweetly
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And it blew their minds completely
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They'd never seen an Eagle
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Scout so cruel

Verse 2
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Now won't you think for the
shame and degradation
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For the school's administration
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He put on such a bold and brassy show
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The Chancellor cried

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