Key: G# minor
Verse 1
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Now I live in a tall old tree,
nobody can ever bother me.
Down at the kids, the kids playground,
watch the ferris wheel turn round and round.
Sing with the birds, perverse with the squirrels,
C
Your heart make it good, your hands are clean,
people down there gonna treat you mean.
Up in a tree with nothing to fear
Closer to
Jesus and
God is near
Conscience clear as a sheet of paper
Why won't you say that I raped
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Em
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her?
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E
Purge the glories from
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my head
B
A
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Help me forget the
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words that she said
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You're not the father of
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the child that I carry
B
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You're not the man I'm
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C
going to marry
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We stray too far from the state of nature
Body and soul, morally polluted
Thought processes are convoluted
Things to do for good intentions are experienced
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by other sad afflictions.
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Purge the memories from
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B
my head.
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Help me forget the cruel word
A
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s that she said.
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Em
You're not the father of
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the child that I carry
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A
E
Em
You're not the man I'm
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E
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going to marry
Em
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A
La la la la
you
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