Phil Ochs – Another Age (Guitar)

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There's a man walking round the island with a snake cane

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He picked it up in Thailand from a hurricane

        C                   G
And you know he's not gonna go there

                       F  G
He's been one time too long

                     C    Am
Now all the gods are gone

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The younger boys are drowning in a shallow sea

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The night belongs to snipers in palm trees

           C                  G
And their sabres flashed like lightning

                          F    G
In the charge of the last brigade

                     C
They must have been afraid

E
Soldiers have their sorrow

    F
The wretched have their rage

Dm                         G
Pray for the aged it's the dawn of another age

            Am
Of another age

            C
Of another age

            Am
Of another age

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The blood running down the blackboard on a blank screen

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The convicts shake their cages of a bad dream

             C               G
And they'll coach you in the classroom

                      F   G
That it cannot happen here

                    C
But it has happened here

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I remember nothing that I memorized

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I got my education from a black eye

            C                 G
And they'll teach you law and order

                          F   G
If you dare to raise your hand

          C
Spare the glove and spoil the man

E
Soldiers have their sorrow

    F
The wretched have their rage

Dm                         G
Pray for the aged it's the dawn of another age

           Am
Of another age

           C
Of another age

           Am
Of another age

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Thomas Paine and Jesse James are old friends

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And Robin Hood is riding on the road again

        C        G
We were born in a revolution

                        F  G
And we died in a wasted war

                   C      Am
It's gone that way before

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The dogs are chasing chicken bones across the lawn

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If that was an election, I'm a Viet Cong

              C                    G
So I pledge allegiance against the flag

                          F    G
and the flaw for which it stands

                   C
I'll raise it if I can

E
Soldiers have their sorrow

    F
The wretched have their rage

Dm                         G
Pray for the aged it's the dawn of another age

           Am
Of another age

           C
Of another age

           Am
Of another age