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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) Oh,
gather round (D major) me, people
Let it in now, if you please
Your prom (G major) ised land was settled by bastards,
drunks and (D major) thieves
Excuse me if it offends you,
(B minor) but I'm the wor (F sharp minor) st of all of these (D major)
I destroyed (G major) your family tree,
(D major) I (G major) am the out (D major) cast
(G major) I'm (D major) your inbred second cousin
I was kept inside a shed
I'm the (G major) cross -eyed little stutterer
who always (D major) went to bed
I'm your queer Uncle Harry,
your retarded (F sharp minor) Uncle Fred
I'm (D major) the one they (G major) look for dead, (D major)
I am the outcast
(G major) (D major) I've embarrassed folk (G major) s at weddings,
birthdays, and at wakes
(D major) I'm the (G major) cur who passed out face
down in your anniversary cake
I'm (D major) the (G major) black sheep, the phil (D major) anderer,
the louse, the (F sharp minor) souse, the rake
The (D major) remit (G major) tance man, (A minor) the snake, (D major)
the bloody outcast (G major) (D major)
(G major) Forbear with your pity, (D major)
my function's very plain
(G major) We've come here from the old world
and we've (D major) gone a touch insane
On your social scale,
you'd (B minor) need a boy (D major) as a (F sharp minor) bear,
the family's stained
I am the (E minor) joker in (D major) your game,
I am the outcast (G major) (B minor) (D major) (G major)
(D major) (E minor) (D major)
Oh, the black man and the Indian,
the Chinaman and the Jew,
They (G major) built your friggin' railroad,
they picked your cotton, (D major) too.
They washed your dirty laundry
and they tied your chil
(F sharp minor) dren's shoes.
They got (E minor) a right to sing the blues
(D major) cause they were outcasts.
And we worship politicians,
as if they all were saints
Put their (G major) faces on our money,
hell all slips (D major) in place
We should love this land for what it is,
and not (F sharp minor) for what it ain't
All (G major) their game (D major) is fueled by hate,
the hate of outcasts
The Nor (G major) wegians hate the Swedish,
(D major) and the Swedes they hate the Finns
The (G major) Finns they hate the Russians,
(D major) and the Russians hate the Yids
Spicks and whops and (B minor) greases,
(D major) kites and spades and giddy -ants
Hatred's (E minor) blowing (D major) in the wind,
ten million outcasts
Oh, (G major) beautiful for spacious skies
(D major) and amber waves of grain
Grain (G major) distilled to make (D major) the rye
that pickled old Tom Paine
Old Georgie built the White (B minor) House
with (D major) slaves (F sharp minor) that died in (D major) pain
But Georgie's (E minor) quarries
made the gain (A major) from blood of
(D major) outcasts (G major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) (F sharp minor) (G major)
(D major)
This ain't a little closer now,
the sideshow must begin
His (G major) tory will repeat itself again,
again, again
On (D major) the immigration turnip,
oh, the low (F sharp minor) man never wins
Competition (E minor) ain't a sin,
(A major) God (D major) help the old man
Don't step right (G major) up you pilgrims,
the (D major) trains are leaving soon
You've got an (G major) acreage
an eye away from the (D major) likes of folks like you
A quarter section on a flood plain,
40 acres of a view
(G major) Sign right here you bloody (E minor) fools (A minor)
Welcome you out (G major) casts! (D major)
You
The Outcast
Tom Russell
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