Chords for Vin Garbutt - If I Had A Son

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[A#] I wish I could have been a speaker [Gm] too.
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_ [C#] _ _ [E] _ [F#m] _ I [D] wish I could have been a speaker too.
I'd stay in bed all day,
[Bm] but I wish there were a bed.
[E] And the choices [A] you need are gone [C#m] crazy.
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_ [C#] [D] You say that you'd share a plan [E] _
_ perfected.
_ [A] I'd buy [F#m] a song,
[Bm] even [E] though not fair.
[A]
You'd work all [F#m] of these,
get them down,
[D] and [E] then you'd be bored.
[D] They'd close every [E] bed,
[A] from [F#m] breakfast to dinner.
_ [D] They'd blow the main part,
[E] you'd be [Bm] sore.
_ _ [D] _ They'd blow the main part,
Said John the [B] dead [A] man called. _ _ _
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[G#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Em] Said John the dead man called.
I remember [A] the man
who was [C#m] trapped in the [F#m] ceiling,
with [D] the tomes on the floor,
on his [E] head. _
And I lay in [A] the dark,
[C#m] to the great dummy [D] light.
I remember the way
[E] I sat.
_ _ _ If I ever [A] get out
of this hellhole [F#m] of life,
I'll turn me [G] back
[G#] on the plan to [E] behave.
_ [C#m] _ [E] But what else could [A] I do?
Tell me [E] where do I [F#m] go?
So [D] I'll put
a star in the gold [E] chain.
[C#m] _ [E] _ _ [A] I'd buy [F#m] a song,
even [Bm] though [E] not fair.
[A]
You'd work all [F#m] of these,
get them down,
[E] and then you'd be bored.
[D] They'd close every [E] bed,
[A] from breakfast [F#m] to dinner.
_ [D] They'd blow _ _ [E] the main part,
you'd be sore.
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Said John [F#m] the dead [A] man called. _ _
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[D] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] As they walk over [F#m] the mountain,
[C#m] the memories they'd [F#m] still.
[C#m]
Though [D] they'd conquered
the skies and [E] the land, _
_ they'd crossed the [A] cross over
[C#m] the desert [F#m] _ waste.
[D] And nature can be [E] mad
about a man,
_ [A] but they got [F#m] bored.
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[A] No, no,
[F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] [D] no,
no,
[E] _
[A] no,
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_ _ _ _ [E] [C#] no, no,
[E]
[A] no,
[D] no,
no,
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_ [E] no,
no,
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[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[E] _ no,
_ [D] no, _ _
_ [A] _ _ no,
Well, _ [E] _ _
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[G#] _ _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ I'd
[F#m] buy a song,
even though not fair.
A [D] night when I'm climbing the _ [E] [C#m] stairs, [E] _
and I'm cursed every [A] day, [C#m] my eyes fall [F#m] away, and I [D] wonder if anyone [E]
cares.
_ _ [Bm] When [E] I look [C#m] up and shine in the fading [F#m] dawn's all gone, and I [D] feel what is left of [E] the [C#m] night.
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I remember [A] a dream [C#m] that was crushed in the [F#m] sand, did it [D] go?
And I'm about _
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[F#m] _ _ to [G#] crash.
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[A] _ _ One of [F#m] these, in [D] a downwind [E] engine roar, [D] and it's caused everything.
[E]
And [A] it's made [F#m] us to shine, [D] did it go?
The meaning of it [E] is so [B] _
[D] poor, said [F#m] John the dirty [D] black coal.
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