Well chords by Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band

SimplifiedD · C · Bb · Dm · G

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Verse 1
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Life floats down the river
on a red raft of blood.
The night blocks out the heavens
like a big black shiny bug.
It's hard, soft shell shining,
white in one spot, well.
It's a hard place that I'm living,
but I'm doing well, well.
The white ice horse
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melted like a spot of silver, well.
Its vein went last,
then disappeared the tail.
My life ran through my veins,
whistling hollow, well.
I froze in solid motion, well, well.
I heard the ocean swarming by,
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well, well.
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I  heard the beetle clicking, well.
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I sensed the thickest silent stream.
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Then I began to dream.
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My mind cracked like custard,
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ran red until it sealed,
Turned to wood and rolled like a wheel.
Thick black felt birds are flying
with capes of solid chrome
and feathers of solid chrome
and beaks of solid bone
and bleach the air around them
white and cold well, well,
till it showed in pain.
The hollow cane clicked like ever after.
Its shadow vanished,
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shining silence, well, well.
Yeah!
Thank you. Thank you.
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Now, every place I try to do,
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every place I try to do that poem,
people,
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People were hollering at me,
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this is the first place I've
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been able to do that poem.
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I  couldn't make it. Thank you.
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The first place I've been
able to do that poem.