Tom Robinson - War Baby Ukulele

[Intro]
 
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[Verse]
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Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof
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Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise
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I don't even care what other people are there
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I just stare and stare and stare
 
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I see your shadow in the swimming pool
I see your face in the shaving mirror
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Time and time and time again
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I follow your footsteps so quietly up the backstairs
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And I hope and I pray you're never going to find me there
 
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Smooth skin and tenderness long ago on a dark night
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Wish I could see you once again, just to remember it was true
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I want to be still beside you - quiet and still beside you
Em                              A
Listening to your breathing and feeling your warmth again
 
[Chorus]
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War baby - you were a War baby - this means
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War baby - I'm scared, so scared
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Of whatever it is you keep putting me through
 
[Verse]
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I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting
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All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back
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I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows
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When I'm kneeling like a candle at the foot of my own bed
 
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Corresponding disasters every night on the TV
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Sickening reality keeps gripping me in its guts
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All my friends talk and joke and laugh about Armageddon
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But like a nightmare it's still waiting there at the end of every day
 
[Chorus]
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War baby - we were at War baby - this means
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War baby - I'm scared, so scared
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Of whatever it is you keep putting me through
 
[Verse]
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I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting
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All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back
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But later that same evening we were out in the car talking
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When I suddenly wondered who the hell it was we were trying to fool
 
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Cos you were the first one that I ever wanted
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And it's you I come home to at the end of every day
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Like a mother-sucking baby, demanding and so helpless
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A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes
 
[Chorus]
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War baby - talking about the Third World War baby - this means
Gmaj7                  G6  Em
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
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Of whatever it is you keep putting me through
 
[Outro]
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War baby - you were a War baby - this means
Gmaj7                  G6  Em
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
A
Of whatever it is you keep putting me through