The Good Book chords by
Tim Minchin

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Verse 1
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Life is like an ocean voyage and our
bodies are the ships
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And without a moral compass
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we would all be cast adrift
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So to keep us on our bearings
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the Lord gave us a gift
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And like most gifts ya get it was a book

Verse 2
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I only read one book but it's a
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Good Book don't you know
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I act the way I act because
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the Good Book tells me so
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If I want to know how to be good it's
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to  the Good Book that  I go
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'Cause the Good Book is a book
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and it is good and it's a book

Verse 3
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I know the Good Book's good because
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the Good Book says it's good
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I know the Good Book knows it's good because
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a really Good Book would
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You couldn't cook without a cookbook
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and I think it's understood
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You can't be good without
a Good Book
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'Cause it is good and it's a book
and it is good for cooking chook

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I tried to read some other books
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but I soon gave up on that
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The paragraphs ain't numbered
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and they complicate the facts
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I can't read Harry Potter 'cause they're
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worshipping false gods and that
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And Dumbledore's a poofter and that's
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bad 'cause it's not good

Verse 5
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Morality is written there
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in simple white and black
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I feel sorry for you heathens got
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to think about all that
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Good is good and Evil's bad and goats
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are good and pigs  are crap
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You'll find which one is which in the Good
Book 'cause it's good
And it's a book and it's a book
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I

Verse 6
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had a cat she gave birth to a litter
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The kittens were adorable and
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they made my family laugh
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But as they grew they
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started misbehaving
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So  I drowned the little fuckers
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in the bath
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When the creatures in your care
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start being menaces
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The answers can be found
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right there in Genesis
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(Chaptersix,
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verses five to seven, yee haw!)

Verse 7
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Swing your partner by the hand
Have a baby if you can
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But if the voices in your head
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Say to sacrifice your kid
To satiate your loving God's
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Fetish for dead baby blood
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It's simple faith the book demands
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So raise that knife up in your hands

Verse 8
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Before the Good Book made us good
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there was no good way to know
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If a thing was good or not that
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good or kind of touch and go
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So God decided he'd give
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writing allegoric prose a go
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And so he wrote a book and it was
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generally well-received

Verse 9
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The The Telegraph said,
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"This God is reminiscent of the Norse"
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The Times said, "Kind of turgid,
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but I liked the bits with horses"
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The Mail said "Lots of massacres“ a
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violent tour de force
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"If you only read one book this year,
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Then this one is  a book   and it is good and it's a book,
yee haw!"

Verse 10

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Swing your daughter by the hand

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But if she gets raped by a man

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And re fuses then to marry him

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Stone her to death

Verse 11
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If  you just close your eyes
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and block your ears
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To the ac cumulated knowledge
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of the last 2000 years
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Then morally, guess what,
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you're off the hook
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And thank Christ you only
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have to read one book

Verse 12
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Just because the book's contents
Were written generations hence
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By hairy desert-dwelling gents
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gents
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Squatting in their dusty tents
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Just because what heaven said
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Was said before they'd leavened bread
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Just cos Jesus couldn't read
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Doesn't mean that we should need
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When ma nipulating human genes
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To alleviate pain or fight disease
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When deciding whether
it's wrong or right
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To help the dying let go of life
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Or to stop a pregnancy when it's
Just a tiny blastocyst
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There's no reason that
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we should take a look
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At any other book but the Good Book
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cos it is good and  it's a book
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And it's a book and it's
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quite good