Chords for My Back Pages

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Crimson [Cm] _ flames [Gm]
tied through my ears, [Ab]
rolling [Bb] high and mighty [Eb] _
traps _ _ _ _
Pounced [Cm] with fire [Gm] on flaming _ [Eb] roads, [Ab] using _ [Gm] ideas [Bb] as my maps
_ _ [Ab] We'll meet [Cm] on edges, [Bb] _
[Eb] soon said I, [Cm] _
proud, neath heated [Ab]
brow
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] But I was so [Cm] much _ [Eb] older then, [Ab] I'm younger [Bb] than that [Eb] _
now
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _
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_ _ [Eb] Half [Cm]-wracked prejudice [Gm] _ leaped _ forth, [Ab] ripped down [Bb]
all hate [Eb] I _ screamed
_ _ _ _ [Cm] Lies that _ life is [Gm] black and white, [Ab] _ _ spoke for my [Bb] skull I _ dreamed
[Cm] _ _ Romantic facts [Gm] of _ musketeers, _ [Ab] _ foundation _ deep [Bb] _ _ somehow
_ [Eb] But I [Cm]
was so [Gm] much _ [Ab] older then, [Bb] I'm younger than that [Eb] _ _ now
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Girls' [Cm] faces formed [Gm] the forward _ path [Ab]
from [Bb] phony _ [Eb] jealousy
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To _ [Cm] _ memorizing [Gm] _
_ _ politics [Ab] of _ ancient _ [Bb] history
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Flung down by [Gm] corpse _ _ evangelists, _ [Ab]
unthought of though [Bb] _
somehow
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But I was so [Ab] much _ [Eb] older then, _ [Ab]
I'm younger [Bb] than [Eb] that _ now _ _ _
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_ A self [Cm] _
-ordained [Gm] _ _ professor's tongue, [Ab] too _ [Bb] serious [Eb] to _ fool _
_ _ _ Spouted [Cm]
out [Gm] that liberty _ [Ab] is just equality _ [Bb] in _ school _
_ [Cm] _ Equality, _ I [Gm] spoke their word [Ab] as if a [Bb] wedding _ vow _ _
[Eb] But I [Cm] was so much older [Ab] then, I'm [Bb] younger than [Eb] that _ now _ _ _
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_ In a _ [Cm] soldier's stance, [Gm] I aimed my hand [Ab] at the [Bb] mongrel dogs [Eb] who teach _
_ Fearing not [Cm] I'd become [Gm] my enemy _ _ in [Ab] the instant that [Bb] I _ preach
_ [Cm] My existence _ led [Ab] by confusion [Eb] _
boots, [Cm] _ mutiny [Gm] from stern to _ [Bb] bow
_ [Eb] But I [Cm] was so [G] much older [Eb] _
then, [Bb] I'm younger than [Eb] that _ _ now
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Yes, my [Cm] guard stood [Gm] hard when abstract threats, [Ab] too [Gm] noble to [Eb] _ neglect _ _
_ _ Deceived [Cm] me into [Gm] _ thinking I [Ab] had something _ to [Bb] _ protect
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Good and bad, [Gm] I defined these terms [Ab]
quite clear, no [Bb] doubt somehow
_ _ [Eb] But I [Cm] was so [Ab] much _ [Eb] older then, [Bb]
I'm younger _ than [Eb] that now _ _ _ _
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