INTRO:Am G Am G Am G G Am VERSE:Am C G Em Just a little general hospital, in a little factory town.Em G Am D The board put me in charge for mainly keeping prices down.C F G Em I hadn't touched a patient since 1982,Am F Em Am But the day of the explosion I remembered what to do.F Am G E At eleven in the morning, we all heard the factory blow.Am F D E The blast took out the windows, and the shrapnel fell like snow.F G Em Am We could get no help from out of town for half a day or more.F D G Am We had near a thousand casualties and beds for ninety-four. CHORUS:Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE:Am C G Em It was worse than combat medicine; supplies were draining fast.Em G Am D Bandages ran out and antiseptics wouldn't last.C F G Em I took all the able-bodied I could catch inside the doorAm F Em Am And made them help the doctors to go scrounge supplies and more.F Am G E I invented laws to tell them saying in such emergencyAm F D E Forget your usual job and boss, your orders come from me.F G Em Am I sent the cops to commandeer anything in reach:F D G Am Food or disinfectant cloth or alcohol or bleach. CHORUS:Continues after the adAm G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE:Am C G Em The janitor ran cleanup squad, the cook maintained supplies,Em G Am D The garbageman removed the ones who died before our eyes.C F G Em The clerks burned all our papers to boil water on the fireAm F Em Am For sterilizing instruments, as the body count went higher.F Am G Em A local healthfood herbalist brought everything he had.Am F D E The painkillers were useful, and the poultices weren't bad.F G Em Am A smack and cocaine pusher handed us his whole supply.F D G Am The quality was lousy, but a few more didn't die. CHORUS:Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE:Am C G Em We did triage in the parking lot, ranked minor, major, grave.Em G Am D A sad-eyed fireman gave the stroke to those we couldn't save.C F G Em Then sometime in the chaos, a director wandered inAm F Em Am To tell us we were breaking rules, what trouble we'd be in.F Am G Em But if we'd swear the factory was not the fire's cause,Am F D E And the harm was accidental, he'd forget the broken laws.F G Em Am The staff sneaked up and grabbed him, and tied him to a door.F D G Em Am Am Am He gave them blood transfusions 'till he hadn't any more. INSTRUMENTAL: (Play VERSE chords)C G EmEm G Am DC F G EmAm F Em Am AmF Am G EmAm F D EF G Em Am AmF D G Am CHORUS:Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE:Am C G Em When that day was over, and we'd saved all that we could,Em G Am D We saw that law and politics would hang us where we stood.C F G E We'd saved eight hundred lives but shattered all authority.Am F Em Am I told them, "People, save yourselves, put all the blame on me."F Am G Em I took my books and instruments, and a few supplies beside,Am F D E Packed my car and ran away to open countryside.F G Em Am So now I live an outlaw, condemned by righteous men,F D G Am But for all the lives I saved that day ... I'd do it all again. CHORUS:Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart.Am G Am G Can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart?Am G Am Am Am You'll all found out the answer on the day it falls apart.
The Day It Fell Apart
Leslie Fish
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