Readjustment Blues

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[Verse 1]
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Just out of the infantry this morning,
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I had to pay my dues across the sea,
    G              F               Am
But no one back in boot camp ever warned me,
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What the readjustment blues would do to me.


[Verse 2]
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"Welcome to Havannah", said the pilot,
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"We must have made a wroooong turn on the way."
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"Let's buy some cigars and keep it quiiiet,
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If they don't know we're here we'll get away."


[Verse 3]
Am             G               F
Just as I had realized he was joking,
Am                G           F
I saw we were in Washington D.C.,
       G                  F            Am
'Cause there was all the patriotic buiiiiildings.
G                F             Am
Just like I had seen them on T.V.


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[Chorus 1]
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It must have been a holiday,
F                        C
'cause there was this parade.
G                                F                  C
People carried signs I couldn't read that they had made.
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   'Till I got closer and my heart fell to my socks;
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  There was a battle raging and the air was
F
Filled with teargas and rocks.


[Verse 4]
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There was the flag I'd fought against so often,
    Am               G             F
The one I fought for hanging upsiiiide down,
    G                   F                     Am
The wind was blowing ha-AARD, the dirt was flying,
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It made the city sky-YY look dark and brown.


[Verse 5]
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I saw a girl…    she could have been my sister,
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   Except her hair was lo-OONG and in her face,
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She explained…  this was a demonstraaaation,
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Against the war… and foooor the human ra-AAACE.


[Verse 6]
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Now I've seen a lot of strange things in my travels,
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Cannibals, yes…   and aliens galoooore,
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But I never thought I'd see so many peeeople
G                F               Am
Saying we don't want your + + + wAAA-aa-aar!


[Chorus 2]
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  The troops all had on uniforms
F                     C
Just like the one I'd worn,
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But they were all domestic… and myy-yy duty chose waaar
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   They carried guuUUNS just like the ones across the sea,
       C                   G
Except this time I was the citizen
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And they was pointing their guns at meEEE,
        C              G
Yes, I-III was just a citizen
          F                Am
And I was walking down the street,
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And it was just then that the Re-adjustment Bluuuuuuuuuuuues
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Got through to meeeeeee-eeeee