Dar Williams - The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co-Ed Chords

INTRO: Dm   G   Am    

          Dm
I'm not a leader
                             G                   C
I'm not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one
                Dm            
But there was a time way back
                  G              C
Many years ago in college, don't laugh
                      Dm
But I thought I was a radical
                        G             Am
I ran a Hemp Liberation group with my boyfriend
       Dm
It was true love
                           G                         C        G  Am
With a common cause, and besides that, he was a Sagittarius


           Dm
We used to say that our love was like hemp rope
      G                                           Am
Three times as strong as the rope that you find domestically
             Dm                
And we would bond in the face
                       G                C
Of oppression from big business and the deans
                       Dm
But I knew there was a problem
                           G                    Am
Every time the group would meet, everyone would light up
        Dm
Made it difficult
                        G                                 C        G  Am
To discuss glaucoma and human rights, not to mention chemotherapy


INSTRUMENTAL:  (Godawful discordant racket)


     Dm 
Well sometimes
                      G                  Am
Life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging
     Dm                                  G                             C
So I found him in the arms of a Student Against The Treacherous Use Of Fur
                Dm
And he gave no apology
                             G                   Am
He just turned to me, stoned out to the edge of oblivion
          Dm                                     G                    C
He didn't pull up the sheets and I think he even smiled as he said to me,
N.C.
"Well, I guess our dreams went up in smoke, uh huh huh"

And I said, "No, our dreams went up in dreams, you stupid pothead"
     Dm
And another thing,
                        G                                       Am
"What kind of a name is Students Against the Treacherous Use of Fur?
        Dm
Fur is already dead
                         G                        C         G  Am
And besides, a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"


     Dm
I am older now
                            G               Am
I know the rise and gradual fall of a daily victory
            Dm                    
And I still write to my senators
                            G                      C     
Saying they should legalize cannabis, and I should know
                   Dm
'Cause I am a horticulturist
                         G               Am
I have a husband and two children out in Lexington, Mass.
       Dm                                  G
And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out
                  C     G 
Because he's in a cult
                        C           G   C
And he's not allowed to talk to me