Loudon Wainwright III – 4 X 10 (Guitar)

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4 X 10, from the album "History" (1992)
[Intro]
      C           Am             C           Am
e|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|----1------------1-------------1------------1--------|
G|-----------------2--------------------------2--------|
D|----2------------2-------------2------------2--------|
A|----3-------3----------0-------3-------3-------------|
E|---------3----------------3---------3----------------|
[Verse 1]
C                 Am
It's not strange, no mystery

C         Am
You and I are history

 C          Am
I put up my protective wall

    C                Am
It's 4 feet thick and  10 feet tall
[Interlude] C Am C Am [Verse 2]
C                Am
10 feet tall and 4 feet thick

C                 Am
Granite, concrete, steel and brick

C                  Am
Protection for you understand

C               Am
The little boy, the inner man
[Interlude] C Am C Am [Bridge]
F
Boys kiss the girls

Fm
Then make them cry

C        C/B        Am
That's a man's job, that is why

F             Fm
When you cry, you're just a clone

   C     C/B   Am     G    (Fsus2 Em  G Fsus2 Em)
Of every woman I have known
[Verse 3]
C                Am
And every Harry, Dick and Tom

C                Am
Gets all of this shit from his mom

C                Am
Who was unhappy, mom was sad

C                 Am
Because of a wall that dad had
[Interlude] C Am C Am x2 [Verse 4]
C                  Am
And once its up it wont come down

C                 Am
And mom's a queen and dad's a clown

C                 Am
It's not strange, no mystery

C                  Am
That you and I are history
[Outro] C Am C Am
C                     Am
It's 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall

C Am C Am
(Fade out)