Tabbed by Glen Maddern.
This is pretty simple but fairly hard to remember.
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VERSE 1
Well it's my
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very little wonder and it's one that I will keep,
Young ladies of means will say
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But you can take it with you if it helps you when you're trying to
"I am, I am, I am, I am, I am",
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sleep
Sitting on the edges of their seats on the light rail
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and the men who are a cut above today are often not so very deep.
tram, amongst the could-a-beens, the also-rans -
CHORUS
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It's very little wonder if you cry,
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It's very little wonder you don't cry,
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The birds were framed, the babies were framed,
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and so too the black sky.
VERSE 2
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You can't hear the ready laughter in my
be amazed, to find the secrets of the city in its
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song, When I was laughing all day yesterday and
alley ways, In the bins behind the swill cafes,
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all night long, till we shook off the fears, and had us
amid the clean-picked chicken bones and cartilage a spirit groans,
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both in tears, O brother don't clean out your ears and you might
a small heart beats and a red beak moans "O pity, where's my little body
CHORUS
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gone?" You'll know why
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it's very little wonder you don't cry,
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Don't be ashamed of a guilty little rain
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and don't be ashamed, it's just the drink, it's just the drink,
it's just the
TRUMPET SOLO
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drink.
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One marks a place, one
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makes a time, One stops a'living,
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one goes about a'dying...
PIANO SOLO (WITH TRUMPETS AND HANDCLAPS)
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Somebody blew their brains out in this room,
alcohol. I could hear the heavy footsteps in his
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I can feel it like it happened just this afternoon,
hollow halls, Little wonder that he soon devised to
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On the wall behind some furniture there's a stain in the shape of Africa,
rid them all in one great gushing fall,
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O fear walks tall, when it's halfway up the hill with its friend
The billion tiny devil's feet that nightly walked that bloody beat
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Hi ho, ho hum, Get yourself a gun,
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Open up your heart and let the bleeders run,
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Hi ho, ho hum, Move the thing along,
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Open up your heart and let the evening come
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Hi ho, ho hum, Get yourself a gun,
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Open up your heart and let the bleeders run,
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Hi ho, ho hum, Think about your mum,
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Open up your heart and let the evening
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come darkly in.