Chords for Augie March - AWOL

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_ _ [Gm] _ Three [F] dozen cycles, [Dm] give or take [C] a song.
[Am] Some without [Bb] _
experience, [Gm] have to [C] keep on running.
[F] Oh, I [Dm] know all justice, [Bb] little but [C] right if you don't rhyme.
[F] And I know [Dm] how handsome [Bb] is that trick [C] of the light.
So don't be [F] _
mistaken [Bb] in thinking [Gm]
I'll do right,
[C] given [F] the chance to [Bb] do wrong.
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Again [Bb] and again, [Am]
again [Gm] and again.
Summer [F] _
_ [Dm] Romeo's casing [G] the park [Am] by the _ _ [Bb] _
uniformed [Gm] urinals.
He loves [C] rural province, [F] oh, don't you [Dm] know a time
[Bb] with its pedival [C] of science, [F] _ inscrutable [Dm] _
face [Bb] and _ [C] merciless hands.
And don't you [F] know, love, [Bb] it's a whirlwind [Gm] of feathers,
[C] thick with [F] duty and leather, and [Bb] leaves a terrain [Gm] of despair. _ _ _ _
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And I know [F] when grief goes [Dm] _
_ _ [Am] unchecked,
there's a kind [Bb] of relief in [Gm] the wreckage [C] for the _ wrecked.
_ [Gm] _ Weren't [Dm] you alone last time [Am] I saw you?
How do you [Bb] keep ready from [Gm] the world and [C] the war?
[F] Oh, I know [Dm] your partners [Bb] who once were [C] like soldiers.
[F] They're all in [Dm] blunt places, [Bb] all without [C] standing orders.
_ Alarming [F] _
approaches [Bb] the time,
[Gm] _
_ [C] and it's killing, [F] though _ [Bb] victimless crime.
[C] _
Again [Bb] and again, [C] _
again [Gm] and [F] again.
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] Monday night, [Dm] the beauties [Am] and the doctor.
Now the bad [Bb]
times over, [Gm] _ time [C] for pajamas.
[F] Oh, I know [Dm]
self-pity, [Bb] it begins with [C] _
nostalgia.
And [F] you die [Dm] of melancholy [Bb] if the daughter [C]
don't get you.
And I know [F]
a home [Bb] on a wall [Gm] next to a picture [C] of a pig
[F] and a body [Bb] by a sphere [C] of regrets.
[Gm] _ Things [F] have been so [D] long in _ [Am] _
life,
_ so [Bb] everybody dearly [Gm] young and wholesome [C] will rise.
[F] Oh, please [Dm]
don't go, [Bb] those horrible [C] _
_ guys, they [F] only want [Bb] one thing.
[Gm] _
_ _ [F] Oh, please [Dm]
don't go, [Bb] those [C] horrible _ guys, they [F] only want [Bb] one thing.
[C]
Again [Bb] and again, [C]
again [Bb] and again.
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Again [Gm] and again. _
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