What's Up With Your Brother? chords by Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin

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I've

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been fighting this guitar
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over 30 long years
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Till there's blood on my hands
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and ringing in my ears
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I sing my songs round the world,
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one end to the other
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But all anyone asks
is, what's up with your brother?
I catch rattlesnakes with my
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bare hands
Sang jazz with Sun Ra,
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played in T -Bone Walker's band
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I'll debate time and space
and the theory of numbers
But all anyone asks
is what's up with your brother
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You can run,  you can hide,
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but you'll soon discover
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No matter where you run,
blood is thicker than water
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No one asks about our fathers,
sister or mother
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All they ever ask
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is what's up with your brother
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I could have money in my pockets
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or not a dime to my name
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Whether I'm drunk or sober,
you know it's always the same
Might be the cop on the beat,
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it might be some little lover
All anyone asks
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is what's up with your brother
Now when the time comes
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to meet our final fate
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Some say in the bars of hell,
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some say in the pearly gate
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Well I  don't give a damn,
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one way or another
Cause all they're gonna ask
is what's up with your brother
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You can run, you can hide,
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but you'll soon discover
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No matter where you run,
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blood is thicker than water
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No one asks about our fathers,
sister or mother
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All they ever ask
is what's up with your brother
All they ever ask
is what's up with your brother
Hey Phil, it's nice to be singing
and playing with you again
Nice to be singin' and playin' with you.
Hey, you can't blame these people
for askin' you,
you know, how I'm doin'.
Man, I caught the biggest rattlesnake,
Timber Rattler,
ever caught in California.
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I know. You oughta know
about that.
You oughta play with people.
They gotta know, they have to know.
have to know, they have to know.
And they gotta know about you, too.
Well, they don't need to know
nothin' about me, brother.
They do, because they
don't wanna be upset.
No, no, no, we keep everything
secret around me.
Oh, yeah? I about all that.
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That's right.
Loose lips sink ships,
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beer mono.
I remember I told you a long time ago,
you keep acting that way,
you're gonna be older than me.
Now look at you!
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Acting what way?
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Acting that way!
What way?
The way you act!
Oh man, I quit this man.
Oh yeah, well I'd be the last to know.
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Yeah, you will be the last to know.
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See you later, Phil.
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See you on Thanksgiving.
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