Chords for Kill Rock Stars presents The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives - Picaresque

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_ _ Sixteen [G] military wives, _ [A] thirty-two softly focused, [E] brightly colored eyes, _ _ _ _ staring at
the [G] natural fan, _ [A] thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little [E] hands, _ _
[A] _ _ seventeen [B] comedy men,
out of [C#m] which only [D] twelve will make it back [A] again. _ _
[E] _ Sergeant sends a letter [G] to five, _ [A] military wives, his tear drip down ten [E] little eyes, _ _
[B] _ cheer them on to their rivals, cause [A] America [E] can't, and [A] America [E] can't say [B] no,
and _ [A] America [E] does if [A] America [E] says it's [B] so, _ it's so.
And [F#m] the anchor person on [A] TV _ _ [E] goes la-da-da-da-da.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Fifteen celebrity [G] minds, leading [A] their fifteen sordid wretched [E] checkered lives,
_ _ will they find the solution [G] in time, [A] using their fifteen frisky [E] moderate liberal _ minds.
_ [A] _ _ Eighteen academy [B] chairs, [C#m] out of which only seven really [A] even care,
_ [E] _ _ rolling out a garland of [G] fire, celebrity [A] minds they're humbly taken [E] by surprise.
_ _ [B] _ Cheer them on to their rivals, [A] cause America [E] can't, and [A] America [E] can't say [B] no,
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[A] America [E] does if [A] America [E] says it's [B] so, _ it's so.
_ And [F#] the anchor [F#m] person on [A] TV _ _ [E] goes la-da-da-da-da. _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ Fourteen [B] cannibal chains, [C#m] wondering widely what [D] the dinner bell [A] will bring,
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[E] _ _ Fifteen [G] celebrity minds, so [A] gonna leave fee-fed her [E] sixteen military _ wives, _
[B] _ cheer them on to their rivals, cause [A] America _ [E] can't, and [A] America [E] can't say [B] no,
_ and [A] America [E] does if [A] America [E] says it's [B] so, it's so.
And [F#m] the anchor person on [A] TV _ _ [E] goes la-da-da-da-da.
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