The Great Escape chords by I Am Kloot

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Verse 1
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Em 
You were born with football boots
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an d a sun tan complexion
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You once thought that on reflection,
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you'd really got it made
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Em 
You shrugged and smiled
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and made the usual excuses
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You suffered small abuses,
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and settled for their pay
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You want to learn to live like earnerest the
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crat (an aristocrat)
You bought your girlfriends earring
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s well that soon put paid to that
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Em 
and if the whole world came crashing,
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down around your ears
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You could dream of stuck old wall
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paper and crystal chandeliers
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Em 
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You cashed in your cards now you want

Verse 2
to buy some glamour
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Em 
You really are enamoured,
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with that new soap on a rope
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A 
A thousand fat comedians came in
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disguised as clerics
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Em 
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They got you in histerics, and walked
off with your soul
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Em 
and with that cheap, skate, royalty,
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D 
you get your flag and wave
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Em 
Well I saw you on TV grinning
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at the motorcade
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Em 
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors,
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string them up like drapes
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So we can ride around like Steve
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A 
McQueen in the great escape
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You hung around

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Verse 3
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to long,
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your mother read your letters
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Em 
You grinned like a go-getter, come
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come and got and gone
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Em 
The time the morning slips,
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blends into your wallpaper
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Em 
and once you could escape her ,
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but where did you go wrong
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Em 
and your fathers at the factory
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that makes money seeling guns
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To fight the wars that spends
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the lives of all the peoples sons
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Em 
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors,
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and we'll string them up like drapes
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G 
So we can ride around like Steve
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A 
McQueen in the great escape

Verse 4
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Em 
You were born with football boots and
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D 
a sun tan complexion
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Em 
You once thought that on reflection,
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D 
you'd really got it made
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Em 
You once thought that on reflection,
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D 
you'd really got it made
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Em 
A 