Key: E major•
Intro 1
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E
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E
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Bsus4
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Verse 1
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Esus4
Here on the hill above the settlement,
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E
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Bsus4
B
the buildings are talking
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E
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Esus4
A tower to a terrace says the word's on the street,
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E
the dead are walking...
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The
Verse 2
C#m
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F#m
brows are arched of the mews across
Em
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C#m
A
F#m
E
G
the street
Em
C#m
A
F#m
By a pale ochre light are made
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Baug
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A
E
G
out heavy relief s
F#m
B
A
Where all your dreams are borrowed
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E
all your senses are thieves
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A
And Ned Kelly won't ride past your window
G#
F#dim
despite the freeze on your disbelief
Verse 3
C#m
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Don't bring 'em up if you
F#m
E
Em
can't put 'em down
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C#m
A
Thin Captain Crackers bowling naked
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G
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C#m
through the center of the town
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F#m
Em
Bbdim
The sun won't bake his blue skin brown,
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Verse 4
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"I see," said a blind builder to his deaf daughter as he picked up his hammer and saw,
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"if blood is thicker than water why'd you dress in the dress that you wore?"
Verse 5
C#m
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F#m
blind are drawn by a blank
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C#m
A
(Don't bring
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Em
G
C#m
'em up...)
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F#m
Em
Drawn on mirrors where windows used to be
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E
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(if you can't put 'em down)
Verse 6
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people might say "My desire's
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not the captain of me!"
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G#
pedestal at night to spook the
Verse 7
C#m
A
Don't bring 'em up if you
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Em
can't put 'em down
C#m
A
E
Thin Captain Crackers bowling naked
Em
G
Em
C#m
through the center of the town
A
F#m
Em
Bbdim
The sun won't bake his blue skin brown,
E
Verse 8
O tailor my bones what need new
What the upper half loathes,
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G#m
I could get around like an intellectual I
Suppose,
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G#m
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Am
Lagerphones, but my hand don't write when a feather it holds, it hangs like a wren with its neck wrung,
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F#m
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G#m
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Am
as did the bells in my quasi commode where I have to shift my head to see where my pillow goed, some mornings I wake up by the side of the road
Bringing it up for the gutter
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G#m
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G#m
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Verse 9
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G#m
Am
I said I would arrive in the capital?
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G#m
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G#m
After chuckin' outside the St.
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A
Don't bring 'em up if you
G#m
B
can't put 'em down
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E Bsus4 A Esus4...
B
E
Bsus4
A
Esus4
C#m
F#m
Em
G
Baug
G#
F#dim
Bbdim
Am
G#m
Capo: 2
Transpose: 0
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