Chords for San Sebastian Strings - The Mud Kids

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Out of the curious foraging rain, [Bb] _ [A] _
[F] moving over the lawn like evening, _ [Gb] _ [Bm]
one by one they [Db] come,
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[Gbm] _ _ [G] [C] the mud kids, _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ carrying [G] _
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their mud in buckets, [A] _ _ sometimes hardened [B] into bricks, [Em] or [A] molded
into Ken and Barbie dolls.
[Em] _
_ [Bm] _ They're the ones who [Gbm] claim we never understand them.
[Em] _
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[A] So they
be begun, the streetlights, _ [G] roll [A] the old bums in the [D] park, [G] _ _ the Bill [Am] Dahl houses out of sugar
cubes instead of [Em] Lincoln Logs.
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[F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ We [D] blame it all on [Eb] Freud, _ [F] the Madison Avenue cult of youth, _
the decline of moral [Bb] standards in the neighborhood, _ [C] urban [Am] non-renewal, _ _ [D] Dylan's songs that taught
[G] them how to think, _ _ England, [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] anything but [G] what it is, [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
the turning from homes that weren't
quite right, [Bb] _ [F] _
_ _ the getting up from TV dinners to [G] eat in the snow, [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ the playing with each
other instead of dolls.
_ _ _ We _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ can't be Batman to all the Robins in the world.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] There are
some that want more than an [D] all-purpose, super-duper utility belt.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] Mary Poppins is alive [Bm] and well
in Argentina.
_ [A] _
She sends her [G] regards.
_ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _
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_ Tinkerbell has joined the [Am] jet age.
_ [Dm] _ [Em]
She flies economy
_ [Am] class.
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_ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] They may yet find a way to bottle for the [F] stillers' love.
_ _ A brand new penicillin
[Bb] for a frowning world.
_ _ [Am] _ _ Let the mud kids make their mud pies.
_ [Em] _ Throw them at the world.
[Gbm] _
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It
could be a [Em] better place to live in.
_ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ Maybe they'll make it better.
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