Chords for Danny O'Keefe Pray For Me/Fr. Bernie's Boys

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[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ I used to have [G] religion but I gave it up.
_ [F] Felt like I was [G] drinking from an empty cup.
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What's the point in arguing [G] the right or wrong?
_ [F] My reason for living [G]
is singing in my song.
It's _
_ _ [F] hard to serve a [G] sentence joyfully.
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Always a [G] prisoner begging to be free.
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But if you cannot give your love [G] any other way,
_ I [C] hope it's with all [G] your heart you'll pray.
_ [C] Pray for me _ [Bm] and [D] everyone you meet along [Em] the way.
[G] _ For if you cannot love, you better learn to beg.
[C] Pray for me [Bm] and I'll [D] tell you what I'll do.
[G] Pray for me _ [F] and when I [D] run out of love, [G] _
_ _ I'll pray for you.
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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] The [G] heart is the center of the universe. _
[F] And love is its [G] message from the cradle to the hearse.
[F] It doesn't have a single form.
[G] It comes in every one.
[C] Its reward is in its living, [G] not when life is done. _ _ _ _
[F] But if you cannot [D] give your love [G] any other way,
[F] Oh, I hope that I am in your heart [G] when you kneel down to pray.
[C] Pray for me [Bm] _ [D] and everyone you meet along [G] the way. _
[F] For if you cannot [G] love, you better learn to pray.
[C] Pray for me [Bm] and I'll [D] tell you what I'll do.
[Em] Pray for me _ and [F] when I run out of love, [G] _ _ _ I'll pray for you.
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Wake up at your due at mass or Sunday morning's call.
[G] How we [Em] got into this [G] mess is a mystery to [E] us all.
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_ _ Oh, sure I learned my catechism, got my [E] Latin down.
[G] But I was [Em] less an altar [G] boy than Father Bernie's clown.
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Mickey always was his pet, might have been [E] his shyness.
[G] He was the little jack of hearts, Father Bernie [Em] was his highness.
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We'd steal into the sacristy to boost a little wine.
Probably Morgan David, but to us [C] it tasted fine.
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One [Em] morning after second [G] mass, Mickey [Em] came out crying.
[G] _ Wouldn't tell us why it was, in spite of all our pride.
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_ [G] He never served at mass again, said he didn't want to do it.
All of us getting older just assumed that he had news.
A [Em] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [G] couple of years later, the bad news made us cry.
Mick committed mortal sin when he hung [Em] himself to die.
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_ [G] Life moves on, we all grew up with children [Em] of our own.
[G] When a story in the paper told us what we should have known. _
_ [Em] _ [G] Dead busted, [Em] Father Bernie, [G] for liberties [Em] with a child.
Locked him up and tossed the [G] key, said he was [Em] a pedophile.
[G] _ _ [Em] _ So we all sat down in Murphy's, made ourselves a plan.
_ Swore ourselves to [G] secrecy, didn't give a [Em] good god damn.
[G] _ _ _
_ Filed [Em] illegal papers, gave the daily news a call.
Said what Father Bernie done to [G] Mick, he [Em] done to us all. _
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[G] We had a team of lawyers, but we never got to sue.
The [Em] archdiocese went bankrupt, [G] _ settlements are doomed. _
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[G] Now we hear that Father Bernie is some felon's [Em] humble slave.
Getting just as good [G] as ever that he gained. _
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[G] But all of us are prisoners, the memories hold [Em] no joys.
We'll be known forever [G] as Father Bernie's boys. _ _
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Wake up Pat, you're doing mass, I can hear my father call.
All of us have our souls to save after the fall. _ _
_ May Christ have mercy on our souls after the fall. _ _
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