Chords for Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive - Orphans (Bastards)

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[Gm] [E] [Gm] .
[D] [Gm] You gentlemen who think you [A] have a [D] mission to purge us of the seven deadly [Gm] sins, [D] .
[Gm] [Bbm] should first [Gb] sort out the basic [Ab] food [G] position, then start your preaching.
[D] That's where [Gm] it begins.
[D] [Gm] [A] You lot who [D] preach restraint and watch your waste as well, [A] should learn for [D] once the way the [Eb] world is run.
[Bb] [Db] However much [Bb] you twist, or [F] whatever lies that you [Cm] tell, food [F] is the [Db] first thing, [C] [Bb] morals follow [F] on.
[Eb] So [Bb] first make sure that [Db] those who are now [C] starving, get [F] proper helpings.
[Bb] When we all start [Gb] starving, [Bm] [C] .
[D] what keeps mankind alive?
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[Fm] [Bb] What keeps mankind [G] alive?.
[F] The [E] fact that [A] billions, [Eb] [Ab] partayly [G] tortured, [D] stifled, [F] punished, silenced [Dbm] and oppressed.
[E] Mankind [Gbm] can keep [B] alive [Gbm] thanks to [F] its [Dm] .
brilliance.
[C] And keeping it, [Gb] humanity [Eb] repressed.
[G] Well for [Gm] once, [F] you must [Eb] try not to [D] shrink [Gm] from that.
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[Eb] [Eb] Mankind [D] [Gm] .
[F] is [G] kept [Eb] alive by beastial acts.
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