Chords for Lou Reed - Xmas in February - New York Album

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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] Sam was lying in the jungle
[E] Aging orange spread against the sky like marmalade
[B] _ [A] Hendricks played on some foreign [E] [D] jukebox.
They were praying to be saved
[A] Those gooks were fierce and fearless.
[E] That's the price you pay when you invade
_ [A] Christmas in February
_ _ [E] _ _ Sam _
[A] _ lost his arm in some border town.
[E] His fingers are mixed with someone's crop
[A] If he didn't have that opium to smoke [D] the pain would never ever stop
[A] Half his friends are stuffed into black body bags [E] with their names printed at the top
Christmas [A] in February
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_ _ [A] Sammy was a short order cook
[E] In a short order black and blue collar town
[A] Everybody worked the steel mill
[D] But the steel mill got closed down.
[A] He thought if he joined the army
[E] He'd have a future that was sound like no [A] Christmas in February _ _ _
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[F#m] _ [A] staring at the Vietnam [E] wall.
It's been a while now that he's home
[A] His wife and kid have left.
He's unemployed.
[D] He's a reminder of the war that wasn't won
[A] He's that guy on the street with the sign that reads [E] please help send this vet home
[F#]
[A] But he is home
_ And there's [E] no Christmas in February
No matter how much he saves
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