Lather Chords by Jefferson Airplane

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_ [C] Lather [Fm] [Eb] was 30 [Bb] years old today. _
[Gm] They took [F] away all of [Eb] his _ toys. _
[G] [C] His mother [Eb] sent newspaper [Bb] _ clippings to him [Gm] about his old friends [F] who'd stopped [Eb] being _ boys. _
[F] [Gm] There was Howard [F] C.
Green, [Ab] just turned [F] 33.
[Eb] His [F] leather [Gm] chair waits [F] at the bank. _ _
[Gm] And Sergeant [F] Dow Jones, [Ab] 27 [Gm] _ [F] years [Eb] old, _ [Gm] commanding his very [F] own tent. _ _
_ [Eb] But Lather [F] still finds it [Gm] a nice thing to do [Cm] to lie [F] about nude [Gm] in the sea, _ _
_ [Eb] drawing pictures [F] of mountains [G] that look like bumps [F] and thrashing the air [C] with his _ hands.
_ _ _ But _ _ wait, oh _ [Bb] Lather's productive, you know, [C] he produces [Bb] the finest [C] of _ sound,
_ putting drumsticks [A] on _ [Bb] either side of his [C] nose, _ snorting [F] the best [C] licks in town. _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ That's
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_ _ [C] _ _ [Cm] all [Ab] over.
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Lather was [Eb] 30 [Bb] years old today, [Gm] and Lather [F] came foam [Eb] from his tongue.
_ _ [Cm] He looked [Bb] at [Eb] me, eyes wide [Bb] and plainly say, _ [Gm] is it true that [F] I'm no [Eb] longer young?
_ _ [Gm] And the children [F] _ call [Ab] him _
_ [F] famous, [Eb] what the old [Gm] men call [F] _
insane.
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[F] And sometimes he's [Ab] so [Bb] _
[F] _ nameless [Eb] that he hardly [Gm] _ knows [F] what game to play, _ [Eb] which words to say.
And I should [F] have told him, [Gm] no, you're not old.
[Eb] And I should [F] have let him [G] go on _ _ _ [F] _
smiling.
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He won't _ let me be. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ He _ _ won't let me be. _ _
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