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[Intro]
Em7/G
Is this the real life
A7
Is this just fantasy
D7
Caught in a landslide
   G
No escape from reality
Em
Open your eyes
     G7                   C
Look up to the skies and see

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   C

Am                   D7
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
            G#   G     F#   G
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
G#     G     F#     G
little high, little low,
C           G/B         Bbdim7         D7
Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me


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[Verse]

[Optional picking for start of verse]
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G          Em
Mama, just killed a man,
      Am
Put a gun against his head,
          Am                 D7
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
G              Em
Mama, life had just begun,
    Am                Am/G#     Am/G  Am/F# Am/F Am/E
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
C    G/B Am
Mama ooo,
       Dm           Dm/C# Dm/C G7/B
Didn't mean to make you cry
   G                               C
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
      G/B       Am        Fm                C
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

[Verse 1 end]
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[Verse]
G            Em
Too late, my time has come,
      Am
Sends shivers down my spine
       Am               D7
Body's aching all the time,
G                        Em
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
      Am              Am/G#    Am/G     Am/F# Am/F Am/E
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
C    G/B Am
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
Dm      Dm/C#   Dm/C G7/B
I don't want to die,
  G                                      C
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all