Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
F#m
D
C
G
Three brothers roll in the town
C
G
one's a drunk and a clown
D
C
The other don't say
much of anything
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D
They're worried he's slow
but he don't mind
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C
G
Cause then they don't expect anything
They drive to the biggest city
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D
They stay in a basement room
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D
C
G
In a part of town called Felony Flats
Their cousin's out of work,
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D
C
Oh, tam -tam don't
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C
G
When you're 16, 19, an d 20
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D
The oldest got a job washing dishes
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G
in an old folks' home
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C
The middle got on with
the construction crew
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C
collecting scrap metal
From a guy who never paid
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D
Intimidated by the city
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G
and not sure what else to do
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C
They drank by the case,
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G
reindeer and canes
one laugh
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G
From an old lady's drawer
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D
He called his brothers
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before they took him away
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He said, time, time don't mean anything
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D
I'll be out before you know it
C
Em
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G
C
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of his basement room
and cooking
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when he wasn't supposed to
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So he went back to their hometown,
but the brothers wouldn't leave
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D
They just moved into their van
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C
He was sensing for just three months
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C
They held on through the winter,
living in their van
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D
Listening to the radio at night
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from their sleeping bags
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C
Oh, time, time don't mean anything
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D
C
When you're 16, 19, and 20
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Oh, time, time don't mean anything
When you're already sinking
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at 16, 19, an d 20
you
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