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Phil Ochs
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Tuning: One semitone lower than standard
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Intro: Am- F G Am- F G
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Am E Am E Am
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There's a man walking round the island with a snake cane
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Am E Am E Am
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He picked it up in Thailand from a hurricane
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C G
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And you know he's not gonna go there
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F G
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He's been one time too long
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C Am
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Now all the gods are gone (Though the game is gone)
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The younger boys are drowning in a shallow sea
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The night belongs to snipers in palm trees
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And their sabres flashed like lightning
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In the charge of the last brigade
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They must have been afraid
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E
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Soldiers have their sorrow
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F
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The wretched have their rage
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Dm G
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Pray for the aged it's the dawn of another age
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Am
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Of another age
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C
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Of another age
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Am
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Of another age
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The blood running down the blackboard on a blank(?) screen (in a thin stream?)
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The convicts shake their cages of a bad dream
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And they'll coach you in the classroom that it cannot happen here
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But it has happened here
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I remember nothing that I memorized (The cockroach cops are crawling on a battle ground)
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I got my education from a black eye (The shields are in the shadows, it's a college town)
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And they'll teach you law and order
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If you dare to raise your hand
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Spare the glove and spoil the man
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Soldiers have their sorrow
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The wretched have their rage
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Pray for the aged
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It's the dawn of another age
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Of another age
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Of another age
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Thomas Paine and Jesse James are old friends
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And Robin Hood is riding on the road again
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We were born in a revolution and we died in a wasted war
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It's gone that way before
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The dogs are chasing chicken bones across the lawn
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If that was an election, I'm a Viet Cong
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So I pledge allegiance against the flag
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And the (fall,flaw,cloth?) for which it stands
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I'll raise/raze it if I can (Pledge allegiance to the land)
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Soldier have their sorrow
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The wretched have their rage
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Pray for the aged
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It's the dawn of another age
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Of another age
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Of another age
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Of another age
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Of another age
Phil Ochs - Here's to the State of Richa...
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