Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy Chords

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I was born in a womb that made my mother [Ebm]
spin.
[Eb] And I spat in that surgeon and his trailer at the [Ab] end.
When I failed to laugh, I was worse than bored.
I [Eb] stole the [Ab] doctor's scapular [Eb] and I slipped [Db] the cord.
I was the [Eb] Catholic boy who [Db] redeemed the [Ab] pig, not the [Eb] child.
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I was two [Ab] months early, they [Eb] put me under glass.
I screamed and cursed at children when the nurse's past [Ab] was convicted of that.
When I slipped from the womb, they [Eb] let me stay with [Ab] my mother to [Eb] tell [Bbm] endless [Db] tales.
I was a [Eb] Catholic boy.
I [Db] was redeemed through [Ab] pain, not through [Eb] joy. _ _ _ _ _ _
They stalled me [Ab] for weeks, they thought they'd teach me to feel.
I fell on so many [Ab] dreams, they [Eb] gave me fine ideas.
[Ab] When they cut me loose, they tried to serve me well.
[Eb] I made [Ab] allies in heaven, [Eb] I made comrades [Db] in hell.
I was a [Eb] Catholic child, [Db] the blood ran red, [Ab] the blood ran [Ebm] wild. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ebm] I made angels dance and drop to their knees.
[Eb] When I entered [Ab] a church, the [Eb] fetus statues [Ab] bleep.
I felt the stamina of all my enemies.
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_ [Db] I was a [Eb] Catholic boy, _ [Db] redeemed through [Ab] pain, not through [Eb] joy. _ _ _ _ _
I watched the sweetest song sung by a choir.
I dreamed of Marley's bones hanging from a wire.
[Ab] I made the conjuring, I gave the [Eb] absolution.
I made the resignation to purify my [Db] soul.
I'm a [Eb] Catholic boy, [Db] _ redeemed through [Ab] pain, not through [Eb] joy.
_ They can't touch me now.
I got every sacrifice [D] behind me.
I got baptism, [Eb] I got communion, [Fm] I got penance, I got [Eb] extreme redemption.
_ I've got _ _ [Db] confirmation, because I'm a [Eb] Catholic _ child.
[Db] The blood ran red, [Ab] the blood ran wild.
[Db] Now I'm a [Eb] Catholic man, I [Db] put my tongue to the rail [Ab] whenever I [Eb] can.
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