The Box chords by 
Johnny Flynn 
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Key: E major•
Intro 1
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B
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C#m
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B
A
Verse 1
C#m
Rob
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C#m
lived in a box by the rails
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C#m
Only thing he knew is you don't fail
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B
When you live in a box by the rails
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Don't comb your hair,
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don't comb your tail
Verse 2
E
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
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Leave me nothin' I don't
C#m
need at all
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E
Nothin' I don't need at all
B
Verse 3
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C#m
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C#m
He ate from the bins in the park
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C#m
Stayed out with the rats after dark
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Never left a trail, never made his mark
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E
When he ate with the rats after dark
Verse 4
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Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
A
Leave me nothin' I don't
C#m
need at all
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E
Nothin' I don't need at all
B
A
Verse 5
C#m
A
Callin' on his friends
C#m
never made him sad
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Didn't want the thing s
C#m
he never had
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B
It only made them feel so sad
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E
For having the things he never had
Verse 6
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Sweep my mess away Leave my
body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
A
Leave me nothin' I don't
C#m
need at all
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E
Nothin' I don't need at all
B
A
Verse 7
C#m
A
If you stay in that box overnight
C#m
A
And don't get out when
C#m
it gets light
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B
There's not much lost of a secret life
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That's never done wrong
C#m
and it's never done right
Verse 8
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C#m
Now some more flowers grow
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And the corn gets eaten by
C#m
a few more crows
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And an old man's box is full of bones
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A
Won't see his footprints
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in the snow
Verse 9
E
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
A
Leave me nothin' I don't
C#m
need at all
A
E
Nothin' I don't need at all
Verse 10
E
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me whole and leave my soul
A
Leave me nothin' I
C#m
don't need at all
A
E
Nothin' I don't need at all
Outro 1
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Esus4
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Esus4
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B
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B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B A C#m Esus4
E
B
A
C#m
Esus4
Capo: 2
Transpose: 0
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