Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O Children

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Ask me that lovely little gun, [C] _ _
_ my dear, my darling one,
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The cleaners are coming one by one, [G] _ _
You don't even want to [D] let [Em] them start,
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They're knocking now upon your door, _ _ [C] They measure the room, they know the score,
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They're mopping up the butcher's floor, They're cleaning up the mess,
They're cleaning up the mess floor, _ [G] _ _
Of your broken [D] little [Em] heart.
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_ _ Forgive [D] _ _ [Em] us now for what we've done, _ _ [C]
Started out as a bit of fun,
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Here take these before we [G] run away, _ _ The [D] keys to [Em] the goo bag.
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_ _ Children, _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ lift up your [D] _
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voice, _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
Children, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ we _ _ [D] just, _ _ we [Em] just _ want _ _ _ _ to know,
Come on, _ _ _ _ _ come on, _ _ _ _ come [G] on, _ _ _ _ [Em] _
Here comes Frank and poor old Jim,
_ [C] They're gathering round with all my friends, _ We're [Am] older now and the light is dim,
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And you are only [D] [Em] just beginning.
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_ _ [D] Children, _ [Em] _ we have the answer to all your fears, It's short, it's simple, it's crystal clear,
[Am] It's round about and it's somewhere [G] _ here, Lost _ [D] amongst our [Em] _ _ _
winnings.
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_ lift up your _ [E] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] voice, _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ Children, _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ we _ [D] just, _ _ _ we [G] _ [Em] just _ want to know,
They've done their job on you, _ [C] They're heptoed mannered in the groove,
_ [Am] They've hosed you down, you're good as new, [G] _ _ And they're lining up [D] to [Em] _ inspect you.
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_ Children, [Em] _ _ poor old Jim's white as a ghost, He's [C] found the answer that we lost,
_ [Am] We're all weeping now, weeping [G] because, There ain't nothing we [D] can do [Em] to protect you. _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ lift up your _ _ [D] voice, _ _
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Children, _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ we _
_ _ [Bm] [D] just, _ we _
[G] just [Em] _ _ want to know,
They've jumped in on us, [G] They've trained the ghosts of the [C] kingdom, _
_ [A] We're happy now, we're having fun, [Am]
[G] The train ain't even [D] left [G] the [Em] station.
Children, look upon me, [C] I once was blind, but now I see,
I [Am] have you left to see for me, [G] Is that such a stretch of _ imagination?
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_ Children, look upon me, [C] It's held in chains, but now I'm free,
[Am] I'm hanging in there, don't you see, And [G] it's the process of [D] _ elimination.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ They've trained the ghosts [C] of the kingdom, _ [Am] We're happy now, we're having fun,
[G] The young, the wild, the [D] scared, the [Em] infected, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] They've trained the ghosts of the kingdom.
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