What Gives chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
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Paul & George & Ringo,
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just a fraction of the Fab Four
Some still survive from Dave
Clark's Five
Washed up on the Mersey Shore
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Jerry has a pacemaker
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The hermit's name is Herman
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That old man's Manfred Mann &
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The Animals merely vermin

Verse 2
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Hank Junior sang with Senior
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his cheatin heart was cold
And just a few years back
Natalie and Nat King Cole duetted and
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went gold
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There's a way to make it pay
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Though they've flown the coup
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John Denver, Stevie Ray,
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Vaughan, Buddy Holly
Ricky Nelson,
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Otis Redding in one super group

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Verse 3

Bring me the bones of Brian Jones

And Joplin's tinted

glasses

Hendrix's pick,

Keith Moon's drumstick

And a caftan of Mama

Cass'

Verse 4
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Rock and roll will never die,
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neither can her heroes
Just pick a figure with three digits
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Then tack on about six zeros
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The Beatles are forever,
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it's like John never got shot
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Here's what gives, Elvis lives,
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what is in fact is not
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Here's what gives, Elvis lives,
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what is in fact is not