God Bless The Absentee Chords by Paul Simon

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I'm traveling [Eb] [Bb] with this five piece band, [Gm] I play the [Em] ace of [C] spades. _
_ [Fm] I [Eb] have a wife [Ab] and family, [A]
but they [Bbm] don't [Ab] see [G] much of me.
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[F] God bless the [Bb] absentee. _ _
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Lord, [Eb] I [Bb] am a surgeon, [F] _
and [Eb] music is [Bb] my knife. _
[Fm] It cuts [Eb] away [Bb] my sorrow, [A] _
[C] _ purifies my life.
[Fm] But if [Gm] I could [Ab] release [Am] my heart [Bbm] and veins [Ab] and [Eb] artery,
_ [Gb] I'd [F] say God bless the _ [Bb] absentee.
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I [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ miss my woman's [Bm] soul, I miss [Gb] my bed. _
[C] _ I miss [B] those soft places [C] I used to lay my head.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ My son don't need [Ab] me yet, [Bm] _ his bones [Gb] are soft.
_ [C] He flies a [B] silver airplane, he [D] wears [Bb] a golden _ cross.
[Fm] God [Eb] bless the _
[Bb] absentee.
_ [Fm] Lord, this [Eb] country's changed [Bb] so fast.
[Fm] The future [Eb] is [Bb] the present, _ [Gb] [C] the present's in the past.
_ [Fm] The [Eb] highways [Ab] are in _ [A] litigation, [Bbm] the [Ab] airports are [Eb] to scream.
[Gb] _ _ [F] God [B] bless the [Bb] absentee.
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_ God bless [Fm] the [Eb] absentee.
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