Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Oh,
Let it in now, if you please
Excuse me if it offends you,
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but I'm the worst of all of these
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I am the outcast
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I'm your inbred second cousin
I was kept inside a shed
I'm your queer Uncle Harry,
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I'm the one they look for dead,
I am the outcast
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I've embarrassed folks at weddings,
birthdays, and at wakes
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I'm the cur who passed out face
down in your anniversary cake
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I'm the black sheep, the philanderer,
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The remittance man, the snake,
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the bloody outcast
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Forbear with your pity,
my function's very plain
On your social scale,
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you'd need a boy as a bear,
the family's stained
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I am the joker in your game,
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I am the outcast
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Oh, the black man and the Indian,
the Chinaman and the Jew,
They washed your dirty laundry
and they tied your chil
And we worship politicians,
as if they all were saints
We should love this land for what it is,
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All their game is fueled by hate,
the hate of outcasts
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Hatred's blowing in the wind,
ten million outcasts
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Grain distilled to make the rye
that pickled old Tom Paine
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with slaves that died in pain
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outcasts
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This ain't a little closer now,
the sideshow must begin
again, again
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God help the old man
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an eye away from the likes of folks like you
A quarter section on a flood plain,
40 acres of a view
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Sign right here you bloody fools
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Welcome you outcasts!
You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D Bm F#m...
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Capo: No capo
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