Chords for Paul Cowsill: Tells All (or at least some)

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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _
Yeah, so we cooked this up. _ _ _
[Gm] So the kids were getting to be teens and they had chores, which might have been load the
dishwasher, but they [G] would bitch and moan about that.
And so [Bb] I took this picture out of me doing [Bbm] dishes, doing the dishes, literally [F] doing
the dishes instead of [C] not having a dishwasher or anything like that.
So yeah, that was my routine at 15.
[G] Once there was a time we cried.
_ [F] Oh, when I was born, I three sets of adenoids.
Okay.
And they were constantly infected.
And I can remember _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] I would look at something and everything would be black around it.
And all I heard was a buzz. _
_ _ _ _ [D] My dad was calling us to come [C] and somehow I lost track of Bill and Richard and Bob and
they took off and I [Fm] was just still playing [Bb] right where they had left me and I didn't [G] hear anything.
And dad was coming up and he was about ready to kick my ass again for not [Eb] responding.
So, you know, for me being open and, you know, just like going, oh yeah, whatever, you know,
the heck with that.
I never cried.
I never let my kids.
I [G] _ _
[Bb] never _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [Ab] _
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [F] let them get the better of me, [E] but I was big, you know, you see how big I was.
I was like really big [Eb] at 15.
Didn't [D] matter to me.
I mean, [G] his beatings on me, you know, whatever.
It didn't affect me.
I felt bad for Bob, really, because I didn't think Bob ever deserved to get whacked.
Hey, I always push the envelope with the old man.
You know what?
[Ab] I just would say, fuck this guy.
And then when I got hammered at home, man, I'd go out and [D] man, I would get in so many fights.
I loved it.
From about the seventh grade, _ God, on, that was my release.
I'd go to school and if somebody was bugging a friend of mine, I'd say, hey, I'm seeing
you, you know, in the graveyard, by the Y, tonight.
And people would show up in [G] two or threes and I would clean house.
I would have just a ball [A] just messing people up.
[E] Oh, baby, I'm trying to be better.
[Em] _ Mom [N] and dad were in cahoots, okay?
And the problem was that they were both so bloody drunk all the time that they didn't
have their wherewithal about them.
My mom wouldn't stop dad.
I mean, I was getting beat up by this cat until I was 18 and 19 years old.
That's ridiculous.
I could have killed [B] Bud with one punch. _ _
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The same kind of feeling I [D] have about _ _ _ _ the way it is.
[G] And that's the way it was me and Rich.
Richard always [Gbm] hassles Susan and I was the only one to ever really [Eb] clock that guy.
And he's always known that.
He's afraid of me.
[G] Look it, John Barry and Susan were the babies and I was in charge of the fricking babies.
Susan!
_ [B] Susan!
_ _ _ [E] It was my duty to be in charge.
I babysat them.
I always had those three.
[Em] _ No, no, Susan! Susan!
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I'm coming!
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_ _ Find somebody else [E] for Susan.
We're gonna find her though.
_ _ [Em] _ We used to come down here and spend all day on [E] here. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Susan! _ _
Susan [Ab] Miranda!
[D] We did this all.
[C] _ _
_ _ [G] Hello, _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] lovers.
They are [G] _ two and a half.
They [G] are three _ _ [C] together.
They are [G] for _ [F] each _ _ [C] _ other.
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_ _ _ [Am] Stand by the _ stairway [C] you see.
I guess I got in a band.
It was great. _ _ _
I don't [Gm] even recall there being a chore anymore.
But [Bb] boy, before the band it was all about chores.
Isn't that interesting?
Uh-oh!
What?
So [G] _ _ _ _
there _ _ _ _ goes the [Eb] _ _ urban _ legend that roosters [Db] only crow at night and in the morning. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] My self-esteem and my ego and all of that once I was in the [Bb] band and all that stuff,
boy, it all just settled in.
I [Ebm] stopped worrying about all that stuff.
I just felt, wow, look it, you [Gb] know, this guy's saying, you know, [Gm] we're a bunch of assholes.
And _ [Gb] all these other people over here are going, wow, you guys are great.
And, you know, I almost had an [Em] epiphany one day and I thought, well, I got this jerk over here
and then I got all these people here.
I think I'm going to [Bb] believe them.
Gonna get this good damn wild out [C] there. _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ There is a place that we all go, whether it's metaphysically or not,
and we all get to be there together.
Awesome.
Because I'm not done.
I'm not bringing happiness into the gates of heaven
if I'm going to have to sit at a table with [Bb] mom and dad.
That is a nugget, baby.
Usually they come out like this.
This [A] dropped off at the end of this.
Watch, listen.
[Bb] _ You hear that crunch? _
Mmm, _ [B] so good.
This is what's up.
There's always little cartons and little [G] things,
but here they've had milk by the gallon.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ I love this stuff.
I don't sit around here, you know, thinking that they're looking down on me,
going, oh, he just can't get over it.
No, I can't.
And, you know, for dad and mom, I want to backhand them one good time.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If [Bb] I could just do that, that it would really be good, you know,
but they're not getting off the hook with me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Here we go.
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