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[Verse]
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Born in sheep's blood plain and simple
Em                 F
Washed out of my mother's temple
Em              F
All around I heard them laughing
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As father sheep had stood there calving

Em                       F
Black they were, with white eyes gleaming
 Em               F
Right in heaven life was seeming
 Em                F
Brittle wind blew snow upon me
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I got blanketed all white and frosty

[Bridge]
Bm             Em
In my time I grew and killed them
Bm            Em
Or out of memory I willed them
 Bm              Em
And willed in a greater history
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Out of massacre and mystery

 Bm               Em
Was no longer wealthy, woolly
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Nor anything I could grasp fully
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Someone rush to re-inject me
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God of gods, won't you protect me?

[Verse]
  Em                 F
Fixed my face and marching onward
   Em              F
Marching running ever forward
  Em               F
Buildings were a bloody vessel
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Edging me below the trestle

 Em                 F
There in coal and whitened gravel
 Em                   F
I built a shield of wooden baffle
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Inside of which I raised a fire
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So I could tonight retire

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Everyone will tell you it's evil to be
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A free-thinking pecker like bonnie old me
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But I'll flex my armies and blow out my gut
 F                  C       Bm       Em
And prove I'll be loved by any old slut

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Look here in my wallet, it's loaded and true
  C             G             Bm          Em
And now I can leave here and go and find you