Chords for Burton Cummings - Break it to them gently

_ _ _ 1978 I was watching a particular episode of Kojak one night.
The storyline in the Kojak episode was a young guy witnessed a hit, some type of mob killing.
He saw the murder and the two guys that had committed the murder knew that he had witnessed it.
So suddenly he was a marked man and they were going to find him no matter what
because he [E] could finger them and put them in the electric chair.
So basically he had to go into hiding and be on the run for the rest of his life.
Toward the end of the Kojak episode they found the young guy and killed him
and that was the end of that and the story wrapped up in some other way.
The episode finished and I thought about something.
I went to the piano and I said to myself,
now if that guy from that moment of witnessing the murder had to live on the run for the rest of his life and be hiding,
[C] I said to myself if he had one phone call to phone his best friend, what would he say on that phone call?
[A] Twenty minutes later the song was finished and it came out like this.
[G#m] One, two, one, two, three, [A] four.
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
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_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D]
I'm running with a gun and it isn't [A] any fun as a fugitive.
_ [D]
Fighting for my life and I don't know if [A] I'll make it alone.
_ [D] I'm running with a gun and it isn't [A] any fun as a fugitive.
Lord [F#m] I want to go home.
Lord [A] I wish I was home.
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_ [G] And [A] when you see my lady with a [F#m] twinkle in her eye.
[Bm] Tell her to her softly and hold her as she [E] cries.
[A] Tell her that I love her and [D] I'll live until the day I die.
[Bm] Tell her to her gently when you tell her that [E] I won't be coming [A] home again.
_ _ [E] _ I got into [A] deep with strangers.
_ [E] _ Thinking they could help me to [A] find my way.
_ _ [D] _ Come out and warn me [A] of the dangers.
_ [F#m] That it's always the young and foolish that [B] have to pay.
_ [Bm] So [A] bring it to them gently.
When you [F#m] tell my mom and dad.
_ [Bm] Thank them for the good years and all the loving that I [D] [E] had.
[A] Bring it to my grandma.
Set [D] that boy's wild and bad.
[Bm] Bring it to them gently when you tell them that [E] I won't be coming [A] home again.
_ [D] Running with a gun and it isn't any [A] fun as a fugitive.
_ _ [D] Fighting _ [A] for my life and I don't know if I'll make it alone.
_ _ [D] I'm running with a gun and it isn't any [A] fun as a fugitive.
Lord I [F#m] want to go home.
Lord [A] I wish I was home.
God I'll [D] bring it to them gently.
_ [A] Bring it to them gently.
You got to [D] really try to move.
Got to [A] really try to sue them.
I'll [D] bring it to them gently.
You got to [A] really try to move.
Got to [D] really try to sue them.
[A] It ain't a war
_ [D] Rollin' to my mother, _ [A] rollin' to my grandma.
Got a rollin' [D] young lady, rollin' to my mother, [A] sister and my brother.
Rollin' young lady, [D] rollin' to my grandma.
_ [A] She's way passed 80.
Rollin' young [D] lady, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, _ [A] _ _
rollin' young [D] lady, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ Rodeo [E] lady_
Sweet summer time, tastes like wine, _ feels so fine, [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _
[C#] rodeo lady_
Sweet [Bm] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ summer time,