Chords for AJJ - "Small Red Boy" (KVRX Library Session)

_ How much content can you handle? _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ _ [Em] This song is called Small [Am] Red Boy.
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] I found a small red [Bm] boy inside my [Am] tummy
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With three dollars [G] in change and a Milky [C] Way light
_ _ _ _ In [Bm] my occasional pursuit to find something more [Am]
meaningful
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Than yet another word that rhymes with [G]
die
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] I cut him out [E] and put him on my [Am]
table
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [C] His shallow breathing [G] chest would fall and [C]
rise
_ _ _ _ _ [E] His South of [Bm] Heaven shirt was way too [Am] big for him
_ _ _ _ And [F] his horns were long and sharp
And then he [G]
opened up those eyes that said I [C] am, I am, [G] I am, I am the [Am] truth
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] I showered him [E] with love and _ [Am]
adulation
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One day he [G] was just as tall [C] as me
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] I showed him all [Bm] the books that I [Am] was raised on
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_ Madeline LaEngel, _ _ [G]
Blair's _ _ Mythologies
And then [Am] a montage that [E] could warm the heart [Am] of Hitler
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] I raised him up [G] so proud and [Am] motherly
_ [C] I _ _ _ _ [Bm]
swore that I was glancing in [Am] a mirror
_ _ _ _ When [F] in the language that I taught him
Oh [G] God, he began to speak
He said [C] I am, I am, [G] I am, I am [Am] the truth
_ _ _ _ [E] _ [C] I am, I am, [G] I am, I am [Am] the truth
_ Then _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F] his eyes became a beacon
_ _ [G] An LCD _ _ projector
_ _ [E]
Broadcasting all my memories in a [F]
clear and vivid picture
_ _ His tongue became a staircase
His [G]
uvula the knocker
Of an [E]
ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future
His throat became a hallway
With a [G] thousand baby pictures
_ And [E] I became forgiveness
I _ [F] transformed into the closure that I lost _
When I learned about [G] the tragedy of all of us
I [E] lost it
[Bm] When I learned about [F] the tragedy of all of us
_ _ Incorrigible illness in the loved ones in and out of us
_ [E] Oh, I lost it
When [B] I learned about [F] the tragedy of all of us
I walked through the hallway
_ To a [G] room of only mirrors
_ _ _ [E] Reflecting me in bondage so
I watched myself get freer _
I let my horns grow longer
I [G] observed my skin get redder
My [Am] soul became a hammer
I [C] started to feel better _ _
[F] My hatred turned to pity _
My [G] resentment _ blossomed flowers _
My [C] bitter tasted [E] candy _
My [Am] misery was [G] power _
[F] The truth in me grew brighter
_ _ [G]
My nature and my nurture
No [C] more shame, no [G] more fear, _ [Am] no more dread
_ _ _ _ I [F] am, I am, [G] I am, I am the truth
[C] _ Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you very much _
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