Things I Used To Do chords by Van Morrison

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 (A minor)  (F major) Why do  (C major) I? Why do  (E major) I? Why do  (A minor) I?
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 (F major) Why do I?  (C major) Why do  (E minor) I?  Why  (E major) 
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 (A minor) Whatever happened to nev
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 (F major) er having opinions?
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 (C major) I  remember back when people  (E major) did
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n't give a  (A minor) crap about a politician
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That is un (F major) less he got his dick wet,
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 (C major) standing behind a big desk,
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get (E major) ting head from a mistress
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And  (A minor) then he went and lied about  (F major) it
And shockingly nobody
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 (C major) wanted to cry about  (A minor) it
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No one  (E major) picked up their  (A minor) phone,
got in the zone
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and proceeded  (F major) to bitch and moan
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We just  (C major) made a couple jokes,
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impeached  (E minor) him,
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and then went  (A minor) home
So, since Lick Willie,
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 (F major) things have been getting silly
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Vot (C major) ing demos range from Black (E minor) ,
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Asian, or  (E major) Swifty
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God  (A minor) forbid a nominee's
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 (F major) under  the age of 60
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But  (C major) I  ain't one to judge,
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I'm Bumble,  (E major) I  say I'm  (A minor) 6   feet
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It's risky because I'm 5  (F major) '11
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when given an inch or  (C major) two
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But considering it's  (E minor) the internet,
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 (E major) people will think it's  (A minor) true
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Cause everything you  (F major) read
is fact
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And everything  (C major) they believe
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is whack (A minor) 
Let's circle back cause I don't
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really care about  (F major) orphans
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I don't really  (C major) care about the
people in Palestine
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 (E minor) Why  (E major) do I  (A minor) need to take an abor (F major) tion?
The second amendment,
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 (C major) the definitions of gen (E major) ocide
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Why do I  (A minor) need to focus
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on the  (F major) poor kids
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When I can't af (C major) ford kids,
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let alone a  (E major) mortgage
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It's a  (A minor) shame I don't condone
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the  (F major) hopelessness of homeless (C major) ness
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But all the shit I'm  (E minor) sup
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posed to  (E major) fix is just  (A minor) gay
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 (F major) Why do  (C major) I, why do  (E major) I, why do
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So  (A minor) welcome to the age of
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 (F major) radicalized thought
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What  (C major) used to be a may is now
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 (E minor) an  oh my  (A minor) god
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And all this fake  (C major) news
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puts you  (F major) in a tight spot
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Cause in  (C major) truth every site that you view
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 (E major) is in a blind spot
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The  (A minor) media's deceiving you,
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 (F major) Google and Wikipedia
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I  (C major) edited and reddited,
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it's a  (E minor) never -ending
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 (E major) thread of irrel (A minor) evance
And ever since the al
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 (F major) gorithm was invented,
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we  (C major) all pretended it was just
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a  (E minor) way to sell ad (E major) s
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But over  (A minor) time, it became a way to
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 (F major) make ourselves mad
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And every  (C major) time that I logged in,
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I got  (E minor) pissed at my dad
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 (E major) Cause as a  (A minor) victim, I'll admit this,
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just get (F major) ting your man triggered
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Never  (C major) thought I'd give a shit
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about women  (E minor) or  trans women
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But  (A minor) in the end,
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all you  (F major) read is fact
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And everything  (C major) they believe is whack
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Let's circle  (A minor) back,
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cause I don't really care about  (F major) orphans
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I don't really  (C major) care about the
people in Palestine
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 (E major) Why do I  (A minor) need to take
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an abor (F major) tion,
the second amendment,
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 (C major) the definitions of gen (E major) ocide?
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Why do I  (A minor) need to focus
on the poor kids
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when I can't af (C major) ford kids,
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let alone a  (E major) mortgage?
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It's a  (A minor) shame.
I don't condone the
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 (F major) hopelessness
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of homeless (C major) ness,
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but all the shit I'm  (E minor) supposed
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to  (E major) fix is just  (A minor) gay.
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What  (F major) about the Fighting Irish?
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Brian  (C major) is Irish -Americ (E minor) an.
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 (E major) His father,  (A minor) Charlie Kenney,
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the late,  (F major) great Charlie Kenney,
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bog  (C major) farmer from Ireland,
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that's  (E major) where his people are from,
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Walked  (A minor) the beat in Queens as a cop
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 (F major) once he got to this country
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Was  (C major) asked about the Fighting Irish
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 (E major) and the leprechaun logo
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 (A minor) And many Irish Amer (F major) icans
are not offended,
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 (C major) but many are
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An (E major) d  should that also change?  (A minor) 
The answer is YES!