Chords for Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale [April, 1990]

When I was writing the New York album that was the summer when all every single Beach was closed
You remember it's just unbelievable
It's like 95 out every Beach closed and you would think at that point people would have had enough.
That's it
This is before the oil spill.
This was just because they were closed because all those needles _ _
_ _ AIDS infected waste products and needles washing up on the beach beach is closed today _ _ _ _ [D] life in New York
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[G] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _
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[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] They say it didn't [G] have an enemy
_ [D] His was greatness [A] to behold
[G] Was _ _ [D] _ [A] the last by then [G] progeny?
_ [A] _ [D] the last [A] one on the side of the [G] world
_ _ _ [D] _ measure [A] half a mile from [G] tip to tail
[D] silver and black [A] powerful fins
[G] Say _ _ [D] _ you break a mountain in [G] two
_ _ [A] [D] That's how we got the [A] Grand Canyon
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] That's [G] great American.
Well
_ [A] _ [D] _ Let's [A] create American.
[G] Well
_ _ [D] _ Let's [A] create American.
[G] Well
_ [A] _ [D] _ [A] Let's create American.
[G] Well
_ _ _ [D] Some say they saw [A] him off of the Great Lakes
[G] Some [A] [D] say they saw him off [A] the coast of Florida
[G] My _ _ [D] _ [A] mother said she saw him in [G] Chinatown
[A] But [D] you can't trust [A] mom
[G] Off _ _ _ [D] _ [A] the Carolinas the sun shines [G] brightly in the day
[A] _ _ [D] [A] Lighthouse glows ghostly [G] there at night the _ [D] chief of a local tribe [A] had killed a [G] racist me his son
[D] Been on death row since [A] 1958
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] May his kid was a rowdy [G] pig
_ [D] spit on Indians lots [A] worse
[G] The _ _ _ [D] _ [A] old chief buried a [G] hatchet in his head
_ _ [D] Life compared [A] to death for him seemed [G] worse
The [D] tribal brothers [A] gathered [G] in the lighthouse to sing [C#] try to [D] conjure up a little storm [A] some [G] rain
The _ [D] _ harbor [A] part of the Great Well [G] sprang straight up
[A] _ [D] _ [A] causing a huge tidal [G] wave
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] Wave crushed the jail [G] freed the chief the [A] _ [D] tribe let [A] out a [G] roar
_ _ _ [D] _ Whites were [A] drowned Browns [G] and Reds set free
[A] But [D] sadly one thing [A] more [G] _
_ _ some [D] local yokel [A] member of the NRA
[G] Kept [D] a bazooka in his living [A] [G] room
_ _ _ [D] _ Taking out the old chief [G] in his sights
Blew [D] the great whales brains out with [A] lead harpoon
[G] That's _ _ [D] _ [A] great American.
[G] Well
_ _ [D] _ _ Let's create American.
[G] Well
_ _ _ [D] _ Let's read [G] American well
_ _ _ [D] last [A] great [G] American well
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] Americans don't care for much of [G] anything
_ _ [A] [D] Land and water are [A] the least [G] an _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
animal life [G] is pretty low on the [A] totem pole
[D] _ [A] Human life's not worth much [G] more than infected yeast
_ [D] _ [A] Americans don't care too [G] much for beauty
No [D] shit in the river dump [A] that area acid in [G] a stream
_ _ _ [D] They'll watch dead rats [G] wash up on the beaches with oil
[D] Then go [A] complain.
They can't swim
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ They say things [A] are done for the majority
[G] _ Don't [D] believe half of what you see [A] none of what [G] you hear
Just _ [D] like my friend of [A] pain Donald said to me
[G] Stick _ [D] a fork in their ass [A] turn them over.
They're [G] done
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