Joe Jackson – Real Men (Guitar)

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Take your mind back, I don't know when.

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Sometimes when it always seemed to be just us and them.

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Girls that wore pink, boys that wore blue.

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Boys that always grew up better men than me and you.

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What's a men now, what's a man mean.

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Is he rough or is he rugged is he cultural and clean.

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Now it's all changed, it's got to change more,

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'cause we think it's getting better but nobody's really sure.

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And so it goes, go round again,

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but now and then we wonder who the real men are.

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O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

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O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

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Aha hahaha aahaa

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See the nice boys, dancing in pairs.

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Golden earring, golden tan, blow-wave in the hair.

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Sure they're all straight, straight as a line,

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all the gays are macho, can't you see their leather shine.

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You don't want to sound dumb, don't want to offend.

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So don't call me a faggot, not unless you are a friend.

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Then if you're tall, and handsome and strong,

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you can wear the uniform and I could play along.

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And so it goes, go round again,

 C   C   D   D    C   C      D  D    G   A   B
but now and then we wonder who the real men are.

F#/B B   B B    F#/B B B  E/A  A A   E/A  A A
O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

F#/B B   B B    F#/B B B  E/A  A A   E/A  A A
O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

G           Bm
Aha hahaha aahaa

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Time to get scared, time to change plan.

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Don't know how to treat a lady, don't know how to be a man.

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Time to admit, what you call defeat

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'cause there's women running past you now, and you just drag your feet.

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Man makes a gun, man goes to war,

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Man can kill, man can drink and man can take a whore.

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Kill all the blacks, kill all the reds,

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if there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left.

 C   C  D  D    C    C    D D
And so it goes, go round again,

 C   C   D   D    C   C      D  D    G   A   B
but now and then we wonder who the real men are.

F#/B B   B B    F#/B B B  E/A  A A   E/A  A A
O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

F#/B B   B B    F#/B B B  E/A  A A   E/A  A A
O    hooooooo        Ohoo o hohohoho

G           Bm
Aha hahaha aahaa