Taking Your Life In Your Hands

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The children are all leaving 
      Bb
school today
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Mama said, don't worry, I'll be 
    /A  Bb
back one day
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The blue men in uniform smiled 
            Bb
and waved goodbye
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She was hiding those tears in her
Bb    Intro
 eyes

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Roll up the history books, burn 
    Bb
the chairs
D#          F7                 A
Set fire to anything, set fire 
     Bb
to the air
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        Gm                  Fm
They're riding to begin and running 
at the end
       Gm                       Fm
'Cause mama said, you take your 
           Bb
life in your hands

Taking your life, your life in your 
hands
But don't take your life in your 
hands like I did
  Am            Bb       Bm      
I don't feel so bad, and always 
    C            Cm
look forward with hope
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Forward and hope that the children 
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will always be there

Cancel the day, cancel the night
Cancel the day, cancel the night
'Cause who could be watching when 
she steals and runs away
Full of hysterical laughter, and say

Mama, mama, I've left school today
I hope I get to see you in that 
funny school far away
But those gentle men in blue, and 
those in grey
Say I'll never, never see mama again

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'Cause she took those lives in her 
F
hands
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Yes, she took all those lives in 
   F
her hands
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Yes, she took those lives in her 
F
hands
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But let me wonder, what was there 
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left in those hands?