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The Common Cold (The Epidemic) chords by
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Key: Bb minor•
Intro 1
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I am a hacking
Verse 1

cough

That tickle in your throat
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In an unmade bed in Mexico
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You will catch my cough,
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you will catch my cold
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Hey, hey, no one needs
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to know
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Just put it in your mouth
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No snail trails have blackened
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It's like it never happened
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I won't be a henpeck
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Gm
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I'll in fect it
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I've done so
Verse 2
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many bad things
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I never seem to get clean
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No pecking order please
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Bm
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I've done too many bad things
Verse 3
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Am
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Come get it help yourself
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Come see it for yourself

We're raising glasses high,

dirty as all hell
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In sickness and health,
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in sickness and health
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So would you drink after me?
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I've been a good boy, I'm squeaky clean
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A pretty please in the motel,
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the snails without shells
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In sickness and health, in sickness and health
Interlude 1
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So don't be so
Verse 4
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alarmed
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You're being harvested
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and farmed

Every time I continue to breathe
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You wipe your nose on my sleeve
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Every time I don't drive off a cliff
Bb
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Every time I don't chop
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off my lips

I've been taken to swallowing pennies
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For the apocalypse that's surely coming
C
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Am
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Verse 5
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Come get it, help yourself
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Come see it for yourself

We're shaking rubber gloves

up to the shelves in hell
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In sickness and health,
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in sickness and health
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So would you sleep where I sleep?
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In with the bed bugs and bad beliefs
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I don't mean to make it
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seem
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Like we're salmon upstream
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But are you afraid, are you afraid of me?
Outro 1
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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • F

  • E

  • Em

  • G

  • Gm

    3

  • Bb

  • C

  • Am

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • D

  • D5

    5

  • F#5

    2

  • G5

    3

  • Ab5

    4

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

0

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The original key of The Common Cold (The Epidemic) by The Paper Chase is Bb minor.

The primary chords used in The Common Cold (The Epidemic) are Gb, F, Fm, Ab, Abm, Cb.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 1 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Gb, F, Fm, Ab, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The Common Cold (The Epidemic) is approximately 130 beats per minute.

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