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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