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FAm DOm
Where in hell can you go
DO# SOL#
far from the things that you know,
DO# SOL#
far from the sprawl of concrete
DO# MIb
that keeps crawling its way
FAm
about a thousand miles a day?
DOm
Take one last look behind,
DO# SOL#
commit this to memory and mind.
DO#
Don’t miss this wasteland
SOL# MIb
this terrible place, when you leave
FAm
keep your heart off your sleeve.
SOL# MIb DO#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
SOL#
lullaby me to sleep.
DO# SOL#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
MIb
stay beside me, don’t go,
FAm
don’t you go.
FAm DOm
Oh, my five & dime queen
DO# SOL#
tell me what have you seen?
DO#
The lust and the avarice
SOL# MIb
the bottomless, the cavernous greed
FAm
is that what you see?
SOL# MIb DO#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
SOL#
lullaby me to sleep.
DO# SOL#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
MIm
stay beside me, don’t go.
DO#
It’s your happiness,
SOL#
I want most of all
DO# SIb MIb
and for that I’d do anything at all
Oh mercy me!
DO#
If you want the best of it,
SOL#
or the most of all
DO# SIb MIb
if there’s anything I can do at all.
FAm DOm
Now come on shot-gun bride,
DO# SOL#
what makes me envy your life
DO# SOL#
Faceless, nameless, innocent
MIb
blameless, and free,
FAm
what’s that like to be?
SOL# MIb DO#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
SOL#
lullaby me to sleep.
DO# SOL#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
MIb
stay beside me, don’t go,
FAm
don’t you go.
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