What Keeps Mankind Alive? chords by
Tom Waits

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Key: G minor

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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You gen
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tlemen who think you have a mission
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To purge us of the sev
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en deadly sins
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Should first sort out the
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basic food position
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Then start your preaching,
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that's where it begins
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You

Verse 2
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lot who preach restraint and
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watch your waist as well
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Should learn, for once,
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the way the world is run
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However much you twist or whatever
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lies that you tell
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Food is the first thing, morals follow on

Verse 3
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So first make sure that those
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who are now starving
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Get proper helpings when we all
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start carving
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What keeps mankind alive?

Verse 4
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What keeps mankind alive?
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The fact that millions are
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daily tor tured
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Stifled, punished,
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silenced and op pressed
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Mankind can   keep alive
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thanks to its brilliance
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In keeping its hu manity repressed
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And for once you must try not
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to shrink the facts
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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

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