Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
The sweet pretty things are
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in bed now of course
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The city fathers they're trying to endorse
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The reincarnation
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To Jezebel the nun she viol
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ently knits
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A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits
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shoes
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With the tombstone blues.
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Verse 4
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The hysterical bride in the penny arcade
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Then sends out for the doctor
who pulls down the shade
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Says, "My advice is to not
Verse 5
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Now the medicine man comes
He walks with a swagger
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"Stop all this weeping,
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You will not die, it's not poison".
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the fact'ry
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Verse 7
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The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone
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Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
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At Delilah who's sitting
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worthlessly alone
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I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
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Then send out for some
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He could die happily ever after.
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With the tombstone blues.
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Verse 10
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Where Ma Raney and Beethoven
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once unwrapped their bed roll
Tuba players now rehearse
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And the National Bank at a profit
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To the old folks home and the col lege.
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That could hold you dear
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That could ease you and cool
you and cease all the pain
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Of your useless and pointless knowledge
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Mama's
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in the fact'ry
Outro 1
With the tombstone blues.
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