Chords for Natalie_Merchant_Billy_Bragg_CTRI

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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Say that to the drive home.
_ _ _ _ _ Summer _ tiring [Bm] _ _ [C] _ [D] and the [A] leaving is _ [B] easy.
[G] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ [F] Catfish are jumping, _ _ _ _ the cotton [E] is high.
_ _ _ _ _ Your [Am]
mama's rich [B] _ _ [C] _ _ [E]
and your [D] daddy's [A] good looking.
[Bm] _ _ [C] _
So [Bm] _ _ [G] _ hush little baby, [E] _ _ don't [A] you cry.
[Bm] _ [C] One _ _ [G] _
[Am] of these _ [B] mornings, [C] _ _
[G] you're gonna rise [Am] to see [Bm] him. _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ Spread [F] your _ wings _ _ and [E] take to the sky.
_ _ _ _ But until [F] that [Bm] morning, _ [C] _ _ [Bb]
[D] there's nobody [Am] can hold [B] you.
[Cm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ Waiting for the one daddy [E] _ [Em] _ standing [Am] _ _
near. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Horses [C] can't run, [Am]
eating at the feet of [G] common bees. _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] [Em] Hungry for the word, [Am] the God that never speaks [G] is such as bees.
Such [E] as bees, [F] who walk by [C] humans and birds.
[Dm] And the gentle feel across [C] their bones.
[G] They'll [F] tell you [C] to be loyal.
_ [G] [Dm] Oh how, oh how [F] am I, you [Am] can't fool.
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[E] Hands holding [Am] hands in the circle of the sin [G] is NBC.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] With memories to think of from the cradle racing past [G] the zero-G.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F] _ Water's [C] can be warm, [Dm] can live on the [C] surface alone. _
[F] The spear [C] needs no strength, [D] the mystery _ [G] of fire.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
[C] They like [G] and they like [Am] and they [G] breathe, [C] but they [G] call _ [Dm] my [C] name, [Am] I'm lonely. _ _ _ _
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Billy and I actually wrote this song about four years ago.
And we've never played it since.
Of course I don't remember the words.
I wrote this bit, I wrote this little bit here. _ _ _ _
_ These men make a_
You wrote that little bit. _
_ _ You don't have the words.
These men make a cage for the very souls that came [Bm] here to [G] be free.
_ [E] Thank you.
_ _ [Am] They turn out their lights, hold their tents, their fiction [G] to lay.
_ [E] To lay.
[Dm] _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ They like and they like [Am] and they breathe, [C] but they [G] call my [Am] _ name.
[D] I don't know, I remember the other verse.
[C] Oh, you remember the other verse? Okay.
[Bb] We'll play it again, [Am] okay?
_ This _ _ _ one's extra heavy.
[Bb]
Oh no, don't play the heavy verse.
At [Bbm] the time I argued that [N] it might be a bit pretentious.
I didn't think the heavy verse.
Since it was just the B-side, we let it slide.
But it's real heavy.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] The gates of [C] hell stand open [G] [Dm] wide, but the light of [G] glory walk in a single [C] _
fire.
[Am] _ _ _ [G] They like and they like and [Am] they breathe, [G] but they call my [F] _ name.
_ _ [D] You can go back.
_ [G] Follow [F] me.
It's really hard.
You [C] got it. _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] [C] They [G] like and they [Am] like and they breathe, [G] [C] but they [G] call [Am] my name.
[G] _ [D] _ _
_ [Em] [F] Follow _ _ [C] _ [G] me.
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] [C] They [G] close their [Am] books and me.
[G] [C] They [G] close up their books [Am] and they leave me.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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