Chords for Hymn to Breaking Strain - Julia Ecklar & Leslie Fish

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_ _ _ _ The careful textbooks measure _ [Eb] Let all who build [Gb] _ beware
[Bbm] The load, the shock, the pressure _ _ [Eb] Material _ [Gb] can bear
[Bbm] So when the [Eb] buffled girder [Gb] Let's [Ab] down the grinding [Bbm] _ spad
The blame of loss [Eb] or murder _ [Gb] Is [Ab] laid upon the [Bbm] _ _ man
[Gb] Not _ [Ab] on the steel, _ [Bbm] the man _
_ [Bb] But _ _ in [Eb] our daily [Bb] dealing _ [Eb] With stone and steel we [Gb] _ [Db] fight
The [Bbm] gods have no such feeling [Eb] Of justice toward [Gb] mankind
_ [Ab] [Bbm] To no set gauge [Eb] they make us [Gb] For [Ab] no lame course [Bbm] prepare
_ _ In time they [Eb] overtake us [Gb] With [Ab] loads we [Bbm] cannot _ bear
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Too [Ab] _ _ merciless [Bbm] to bear
_ _ _ _ The prudent textbooks give it _ [Eb] In tables [Gb] at the _ end
[Bbm] The stress that shears a rivet _ [Eb] Or makes a tie [Gb] bar _ [Db] bend
[Bbm] What [Eb] traffic wrecks _ mechanim [Gb] What [Ab] concrete should [Bbm] _ endure
But we four [Eb] sons of Adam [Gb] Have [Ab] no such [Bbm] literature
_ _ _ [Gb] _ To [Ab] warn us _ or [Bbm] make _ _ sure
_ _ _ Behold all earth to plunder [Eb] All time and space [Gb] as _ [Db] well
[Bbm] To wonder, stale to wonder [Eb] At each new [Gb] miracle
_ _ [Db] [Bbm] Till in the mid [Eb] _ -illusion [Gb] Of [Ab] godhood [Bbm] neither _ hand
Of multiple _ [Eb] confusion _ [Gb] On all [Ab] we did [Bbm] or _ planned
[Gb] _ The [Ab] mighty _ works [Bbm] we planned _ _ _ _ We only [Eb] in [Bbm] creation
_ [Eb] How much luckier the bridge [Gb] and _ [Db] rail [Bbm] _ Abide [Eb] the twin [Bbm] damnation
_ [Eb] To fail and know we [Gb] fail [Db] _ [Bbm] Yet we [Cm] by [Eb] which soul token
_ [Gb] We [Ab] know we once [Bbm] were _ gods Take shame in [Eb] being broken
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[Ab] However great the [Bb] odds _ _ [Gb] _ _
The [Ab] burden or _ _ [Bbm] the odds _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ [Bbm] _ Oveiled _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Ab] _
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_ _ _ _ _ and secret of power _ [Eb] As we speak [Gb] in _ [Ab] vain
Be [Bbm] with us in our hour _ [Eb] Of overthrow and [Gb] _ _ [Db] pain
[Bbm] Yet we by [Eb] which soul token _ [Gb] We [Ab] know thy ways [Bbm] are _ [Ab] [Bbm] true
In spite of [Eb] being broken [Bbm] Or because of [Eb] being broken
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[Ab] Rise up and _ build [Bbm] _ _
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Stand up [Ab] and _ build
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