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John Cale And Lou Reed

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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Andy was a Catholic,

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the ethic ran through his bones

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He lived alone with his mother,

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collecting gossip and toys

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Every Sunday when he went to

church

He'd kneel in his pew and say,

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"It's just work,

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all that matters is work."

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Andy was a lot of things,

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what I remember most

He'd say, "I've got to bring home the bacon,

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someone's

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got to bring home the roast."

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He'd get to the factory early

If I'd ask him he'd tell you straight out

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It's just work,

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the most important thing is work

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No matter what I did

it never seemed enough

He said I was lazy, I said I was young

He said, "How many

songs did you write?"

I'd written zero, I lied and said,

"Ten."

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"You won't be young forever

You should have written fifteen"

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It's work, the most important

thing is work

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It's work, the most important thing is work

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"You ought to make things big

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People like it that way

And the songs with the dirty words

- record them that way"

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Andy liked to stir up trouble,

he was funny that way

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He said, "It's just work, all that matters

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is work"

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Andy sat down to talk one day

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He said decide what you want

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Do you want to expand your

parameters

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Or play museums like some dilettante

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I fired him on the spot,

he got red and called me a rat

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It was the worst word that he could

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think of

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And I've never seen him like that

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It's just work,

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I thought he said it's just work

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Work, he'd said it's just work

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Andy said a lot of things,

I stored them all away in my head

Sometimes when I can't

decide what I should do

I think what would Andy have said

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He'd probably say you think too much

That's 'cause there's work

that you don't want to do

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It's work,

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the most important thing is work

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Work, the most important thing

is work

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