Big Wax Hand
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INTRO (x2)
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A
VERSE 1
Well they
Em
opened up the houses
And they
D
handed out the
A
keys
And the
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scribe who kept the ledger
Wore a
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suit of painted
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bees
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VERSE 2
Strangers
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drinking, almost youthful
And they
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knew me by my
A
name
After
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months of toil and sackcloth
How I
D
loved their fun and
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games
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INTERLUDE 1
And
Bm
out there in the dark as I was
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swaying
A
C#m
voice said, “By your knowledge we’ll be
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saved
“We
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heard about that quarry full of
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shopfronts
It’s
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time old debts were
A
paid”
Fm
Beauty’s
cano
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py
Fm
Raggedly swings in the
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breeze
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Beauty’s golem
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stands
Fm
Waving his big wax
Bbsus2
hand
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A
Em
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Em
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VERSE 3
For the
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costs of transportation
Curren
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cy would be re
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quired
From a
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factory we took some
But no
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weapons there were
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fired
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D
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VERSE 4
And at
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midnight by the highway
Where they
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stop when they break
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down
Gave the
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driver all our money
Then we
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were New City-
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bound
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INTERLUDE 2
I
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saw the streetlamps blazing though the
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awning
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Bright-lit billboards prophesizing
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cheer
My
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comrades they were shivering and
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staring
No
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sounds of joy or
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fear
C#m
From them did I
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hear
The
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madhouse soon ap
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peared
D/C
Fm
Beauty’s
cano
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py
Fm
Swinging towards you and
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me
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Beauty’s belly ex
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pands
Fm
Out comes a big wax
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hand