A Corner Boys Lament

[Picking Intro & Verse]
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   C             G          F (Barre)

[Intro]
C G F
C G F


[Verse]
       C             G                        F
There is something I've been meaning to tell you
      C             G              F
When I die I intend to walk alone
          C         G                      F
Through the streets where the corner boys commend me
            C                    G                    F
For making peace with the inner child from the mobile home

           C              G                            F
Now I am handing back the medals that you pinned to my chest,
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We're at war,
G                          F
It's not safe out in the open
        C           G                       C
And the padlock you are wearing around your neck
 C            G                      F
Is a target for the cold, hungry half wits at dawn
        C             G                           F
Who are struggling to compose another drinking song

  C                      G                      F
I feel safe amongst the hawkers and the gawkers
         C            G                        F
Telling stories scribbled downon on decks of cards
       C                      G                         F
Flicking marbles through a mud stained maze of second hand ideas
   C                G                      F
You draw a drag whilst admiring the sweet heads
   C              G                      F
Of a city in the morning by Jack B Yeats

   C              G                       F
Who's that at the door ah it's only reality,
   C               G                            F
sure let him in makes sure he wipes his feet clean
  C                G                                      F
Let us dissect the word from the markets and the factories
 N.C.                                          F
Bring me two glasses there is work to be done,
C                    G                        F
fetch me two glasses there is work to be done

[Chorus]
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Let us compare Mothers and the madness in their method
C              G                              F
Let us compare Fathers and the shape of their jawlines
C              G                     F
Let us compare regretful sexual encounters
C              G
Let us compare addictions, past and present
C              G                        F
Let us compare voices that dance in our heads
C              G                           F
Let us make a pact now, let us spit in our hands
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Let us compare songs that we wish we had written
C             G       C
Let us console one another.

[Otro]
C                   G                            F
There is something I've been meaning to tell you
C          G                      F
When I die I intend to walk alone
C                   G                                F
through the streets where the corner boys salute me
C                G                                       F
For making peace with the inner child from the mobile home
C                 G                                    F
For loosing sleep with the inner child from the mobile home
C                 G                                     F
For counting sheep with the inner child from the mobile home



[End]


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| x   Dead note
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