Men Chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii

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_ _ _ _ When a [A] ship [E] is sinking and [B] they lower the _ lifeboats
[E] [A] And hand out the life [F#m] jackets [E] the men keep on their coats _ _ _ _ _
_ Women and the children [B] are the ones who must go _ first
[Em] [A] And the men who try to save their skins [E] are cowards and are cursed
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Every man's a captain
_ [E] _ Men know how to drown
[A] _ [E] _ _ [B] Man the [E] lifeboats if this _ [A] room _
[E] Otherwise go down _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ and it's the same when there's a war on
[B] It's the men who go to [Em] fight _
[A] Women and children are civilians [E] when they're killed.
It's not right _
_ _ _ _ men kill men in uniform
_ [B] It's the way war [E] goes
[A] When they run they're cowards when [E] they stay they are heroes _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ Every man's a general _
[E] _ Men go off to war _ _
[B] The battlefields a man's world [A] cannon fodder is what [E] they're for _
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_ _ _ _ It's the men who have the power
[B] It's the men who have [E] the might and [A] the world's a place of horror
_ [E] Because each man thinks he's right _ _ _ _ _
A man's home is his castle.
So [B] the family let him in _
But [A] what's important in that kingdom? _
[E] women _ and children _ _ a
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husband and a father
[E] _ Every man's a king
_ [B] But it's really just a drone
_ [E] Gathers, [A] no, honey has [E] no sting
_ [A] Have pity on the general _ [E] the king and the captain
_ _ _ [B] They [E] know they're _ expendable
_ [A] After all [E] their men _ _ _ _ _ _
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