Year Of The Cock chords by
Sonny And The Sunsets

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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All winter

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the magpies hid in the steeple

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Dining on yarrow an d boll weevil

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And there were no people except for me

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I came to the sea to write and to think

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But I was so small next to my dreams

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Like a mind who might try and cross the seas

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In the year of the cock

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Springtime came, no words on the page

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So the old sperm whale

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went lookin' for prey

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And when I found a dodo as hungry as me,

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I dragged her back to my lair by the sea.

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Pushing forward so awkwardly,

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I laid her bare on the eucalyptus

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leaves in the ear of the cock.

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It was hard, hard as can be

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So I sat on her mantel

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like an old stuffed goose

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C

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The artist who says little landlifts are just

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And when at last I tried to

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finally break loose

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She called me a skunk,

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a raccoon on the loo

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She thought I was a rooster

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with the right kind of plunge

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But I was only a chicken

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who had gone coo -coo

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I was only a chicken

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We're gone, cuckoo now

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And just when I knew

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I was meant to be alone

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I fell for a call, so young and so bold

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Really, I said you could love an old goat

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Sure, he said,

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but you're more like a toad

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Like raging rams we butted our horns

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I was a female stag kicking down the door

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But then like a fishlet back into the brook

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In the year of the cock

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I let him off the hook

And then mother died

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so I flew back to the states

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But my sister was a shark

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so the lion's share was weasels away

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And when I saw a girl

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I once knew living on the street

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A hard year went from bad to bleak

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My skin broke out like when I was a kid

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It was back to the clinic

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for tar baths and treatments

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And the doctors,

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they gave the same old speeches

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In the year of the cop

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C

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And when at last I made

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it back to the steeple

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The magpies stared at

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this strange man made

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But a year of lost and lost questions

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I guess a broken mind

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receives no lessons

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If in fact I had fallen and cracked

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Would I rise like a phoenix from the flames?

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Or was I just an egg full of clay

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In the year of the cock?

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I crawled all night and all day

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of Year Of The Cock by Sonny And The Sunsets is G major.

The primary chords used in Year Of The Cock are G, C, F, D.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like G, C, F, D, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

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