Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - A Little Uncanny Chords

[Intro]

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[Verse]

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You started drinking the Kool-Aid
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We were taking the bait
D
We were talking big talk
G
Never playing it safe
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Looking good as Jane Fonda
C
On a Vietnam tank
D
Can't get something for nothing
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Have to energize your base

[Pre Chorus]

C
But she was young enough
C
She was blonde enough
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She was about a perfect ten
C
Had millions of admirers 
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but not a single friend

[Chorus]

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And it's a, it's a little uncanny what she managed to do
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Become a symbol for a pain she never knew

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[Verse]

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You know old Ronnie Reagan
C
He was a shoe salesman's son
D
He got himself in the movies
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He impressed everyone
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He thought trial by fire
C
Was America's fate
D
He made a joke of the poor people
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And that made him a saint

[Pre Chorus]

C
But he was tan enough, he was rich enough
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He was handsome like John Wayne
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And there was no one at the country club
                     D
Who didn't feel the same

[Chorus]

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But it's a, it's a little uncanny
C
What he managed to do
D                       C                           G
Got me to read those Russian authors through and through

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[Verse]

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I miss Christopher Hitchens
C
I miss Oliver Sacks
D
I miss poor Robin Williams
G
I miss Sylvia Plath
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Every morning's a desert
C
Every night is a flood
D
They say a party can kill you
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Well sometimes I wish it would

[Pre Chorus]

C
But I'll get strong enough, I'll be man enough
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To keep myself in check
C
'Cause all my friends that flew to town
C                      D
Said that's what they expect

[Chorus]

G
But it's a, it's a little uncanny
C
What they managed to do
D                      C                   G  
Made me admit to things I knew were never true

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