Chords for Folk Song

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met [C] an anarchist in Tompkins [G] Square Park He [C] was a man spitting words [D] so dark
He called for death to rich [G] men, death to the obese too
[C] Death to art-bags, pushwall [G] blacks, death to landlord [D] Jew _ _ _
_ _ _ Kill the bankers, kill the [G] cops, kill him, her and me
[C] Kill them all for CBS, [D] NBC, ABC, TVN, CNN, HBO, Live at Five, MTV, Street Break, Audio Weekend, Sunday, Jesse Raphael, Horatio, Orr Ruth, Arsenio, Regis and Calhoun _ _ _
And _ _ _ _ [A] I said
_ [D] Hey, I admire your get up and go, [A] your youthful brooding and sexually charged enthusiasm
And all [D] your other utterly naive and thoroughly endearing adolescent qualities
And [A] I bet you can keep it up all night, can't you?
[G] But [Dm] I bet you don't even use a rubber
No, you don't even use a rubber
No, you don't even use a [A] rubber _ _ _
Cause you _ think you can live forever _
_ Or you have this [Dm] adorable and misguided notion that death is something really radical and cool
But I still can't be wildly attracted to your fresh-faced, uncompromised, tattooed, rebel stance
And goddamn, I'd like to have you sing your [E] _
tune
_ _ But _ _ I've been [F] _ making _ friends with this here death
_ And [E] it _ seems a night too soon _ _
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Hello, _ _ _ _ [G] goodbye
_ _ _ _ I'm [C] getting tired of waiting
_ [G] Tired of being _ afraid
[F] Joseph _ Camelgate, _
_ [C] _ I've been saved
So I say, _ hello death, _ _ [C]
goodbye Illinois
_ Now I'm not [G] trying to be flippant [G] here or irreverent or exploitive or sarcastic or ironic or post-modern
And this is not a parody
Get it?
Got it?
Good
_ _ _ _ I've been _ thinking what he [C] told me
That it's okay [G] to cry
When we held the [C] crystal Tina Jowell
Spent twelve [D] grand to _ [C] viatic _ _ _ mantras
Fresh squeezed wheatgrass juice
_ Doctors up in Bellevue
Doctors, Salk and [D] Seuss
Time will all be going home [G] if you can find the way
[C] Yes, everyone is [G] going on, going on to stay
It's [C] time we find a way to cope, [G] a way to find some hope
For [C] some it's the Bible [D] or Buddha or Muhammad or Krishna or cheesecake or bourbon or the butthole
Or Simba's or Dodri, Amani or Romeo, Shingley and you really can't afford it
But it looks so fabulous on you so why don't you take it on home
And speaking of home, it's about time you moved out of that East Village hellhole
You know, the one with the honeymooners view of the [D] brick wall out the window
Because you deserve something more like a permit
Like a tree or a flower or a patch of grass or a singing little bluebird
Or maybe you just want to take your boyfriend to Europe because he's a harbin
Or find a job you always hated or learn how to play the guitar
It's easy, or get obscenely drunk at a piano bar and sing show tunes, show tunes
And don't be embarrassed because at this point I'd rather see Brigadoon than Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
Or maybe you'd like to get politically active so you disrupt a presidential press conference
By shoving a five-pound week-old stalk of broccoli between those thin-lying, lizard lips
That no one can [C] read anyway because half the country's illiterate and the other half is apathetic
Including the First Lady who can stick just 500 feet of it
Or [D] maybe decorate our White House with a silly goddamn quilt
Or maybe you'd like to put a bullet in a Jesse [A] Helms pea brain
But you know when you start [D] thinking like that, when you start thinking like they do
That it's time to let go of the [A] material world
So maybe you'd just like to get yourself some religion
Because Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way
Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way
Jesus is the way
_ _ _ Besides, it's a lot easier to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior when he looks like Willem Dafoe _
[D] But maybe that step turns you off so you rent power of myth
Made me feel really good for about ten minutes
Or maybe you'd just rather do acid and listen to less sublime
Then [A] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ again, [A] the last time I took hallucinogenic drugs was about five years ago
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I took mushrooms in Joshua Tree looking for that Carlos Castaneda's kind of experience
I got off, my boyfriend didn't, he fell asleep, left me alone with the television
Turned it on, put on PBS _ _
You know what was on?
_ _ Berlin Alexanderplatz
So I started watching it and _ you [C] know what? _ _
I got really bummed out _
And once when I said no to drugs, no to drugs, no no no no no
There [Am] are a lot of [C] drugs and maybe you want to say no to drugs too
Or maybe you just want to join [D] Atheist of America, the Madonna fan club
Or watch Richard Gere and Paula Bedali
_ Those oh-so-Zen-like movies with those oh-so-Zen-like messages like
Hey, it's fun to be a prostitute
Can't wait to spread my legs across Hollywood Boulevard
Because then maybe some [C] rich, handsome billionaire and a jag
Will come driving up and take me shopping on Rodeo Drive
[D] That's what a woman's all about anyway, right? _
Sucking and chomping, sucking and chomping
Sucking, chomping, sucking
Chomping, [D] fucking, chomping
Fucking and chomping, c'mon and sing along
Sucking and chomping, sucking and chomping
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But hey, who am I to argue?
Cause it's the feel-good movie of the summer
It's the feel-good movie of the year
It's the feel [D]-good movie of the nineties
It's the feel-good movie of the millennium
And you know what?
_ What puts a smile on your face and a song in your heart
of the spring in your step, well_
Whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _ _ _ _ whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _ _ _ _ _ _ whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, [C] whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you [Em] happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, [G] whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _ whatever makes you _ [Em] _ [C] happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes _ you happy, [G] whatever makes you
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_ _ _ _ _ happy, whatever _ [C] _ _ _ makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _
_ [G] _ whatever makes you happy,
whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes
whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, [C] whatever
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_ _ _ _ _ _ makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you happy, _ _ [G] _ whatever makes you
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