Year Of The Cock chords by Sonny And The Sunsets
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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 and 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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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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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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Thank you for
Year Of The Cock
Sonny And The Sunsets
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