Ballad Of The Dying Man Chords by Father John Misty

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[Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ .
[Ab] _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ [F] _ Naturally [Dm] the dying [Eb] man [Gm] wonders to himself.
[F] Has _ commentary been [Dm] more [Eb] lucid [Gm] than anybody else?.
[Am] And had he successfully [F] beaten back the rising tide.
Of [Dm] idiots, dillettants, and fools.
[Db] Who were on his watch [Abm] while he [Gm] was alive.
_ [F] Lord, [Abm] give a little more [Db] _ _ _ .
_ [Dm] _ time _ _ _ _ .
[F] Oh, in no time at all.
[Bb] This will be the [F] distant _ [Gm] _ past.
_ [G] Ooh.
_ _ _ [Gm] Ooh.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] So says the [Dm] dying [Eb] man once I'm [Gm] in the box.
[F] Just think of all [Dm] the [Eb] overrated hacks [Gm] running amok.
And [Am] all of the pretentious ignorant [F] voices that will go unchecked.
[Dm] The homophobes, hipsters, and 1.
[Db] The false [Ab] feminists he'd managed [Gm] to detect.
[F] _ [Abm] All who will critique [Db] them once he's dead.
_ [Dm] _ _ Oh, _ _ _ .
_ [F] in no _ time at all.
[Bb] This will be the [F] distant _ [C] past _ .
_ [Ab] What [C] it'd give for one more [F] day to rate and [Bb].
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[F] The [Gm] world made [C] in his image [F] as of yet to [Bb] realize.
What [Dm] a mess to [Gm] leave _ _ [C] behind _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Eventually the [Dm] dying [Eb] man takes [Gm] his final breath.
[F] But first checks his [Dm] newsfeed [Eb] to see what he's [Gm] about to miss.
[Am] Mid-occurs view, him [F] undulating the game.
We [Dm] leave as clueless as we came.
[Db] From the rented heavens [Abm] to the [Gm] shadows in the cave.
[F] [Ab] We'll all be wrong [Db] someday _ _ .
_ [Dm] _ _ _ Oh _ _ [Bb] oh oh [Dm] oh oh oh [Gm] oh oh.
Oh _ [Bb] oh oh [Dm] [Gm] oh oh oh oh _ _ .
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