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John Cale And Lou Reed
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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col lecting 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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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B C# G

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