[VERSE 1]
Yesterday's [Am]coal train came to [G]rest in the bitter
[F]Cutting
And as the [C]signals [G]took an [F]age to [G]change [E]it was
[E7]Easy pickings
[F]So you go to the movies where they smash it up
[G]You want to feel your heart pumping it makes
You feel good
[C]All through the karaoke girls were [G]squealing
The hits
[C]As another Mercedes-[G]Benz gets blown to [E]bit[E7]s
While all the [Am]time in the camp town [G]theaters
Of [F]Piccadilly
They're going to [C]throw a [G]black-face [F]minstrel
[G]Show for the [E]barefoot children
That they're [E7]always selling
They[F]'ll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
And [G]claim they ain't underneath this paint
We inte[C]rrupt these [G]liberal saints with their
[F]Whips and [E]watermelon
[CHORUS]
[Am]Reports are coming in [F]of a [Dm]coal-train [G]robbery
[Am]It's like [F]another world, [Dm]or it had [G]better be
So we r[Am]eturn to whitewashed [G]pout of his
Committed li[F]ps
Since he was [C]declared the [G]long lost [F]fountain
Of [G]youth that [E]drips and drips and [E7]drips
They'll be [F]sending him round from door to door
To [G]sell you back what's already yours
[C]"So many good deeds, so [G]little time"
Say the [C]advertising agency [G]swine [E] [E7]
When [F]man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
I [G]hope no living thing cries over his bones
If you [C]don't believe that I'm [G]going for good
You can [C]count the days I'm gone and [G]chop up
The chairs for [E]firewoo[E7]d
[CHORUS]
[Am]Reports are coming in [F]of a [Dm]coal-train [G]robbery
[Am]It's like [F]another world, [Dm]or it had [G]better be
Yesterday's [Am]coal train came to [G]rest in the bitter
[F]Cutting
And as the [C]signals [G]took an [F]age to [G]change [E]it was
[E7]Easy pickings
[F]So you go to the movies where they smash it up
[G]You want to feel your heart pumping it makes
You feel good
[C]All through the karaoke girls were [G]squealing
The hits
[C]As another Mercedes-[G]Benz gets blown to [E]bit[E7]s
While all the [Am]time in the camp town [G]theaters
Of [F]Piccadilly
They're going to [C]throw a [G]black-face [F]minstrel
[G]Show for the [E]barefoot children
That they're [E7]always selling
They[F]'ll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
And [G]claim they ain't underneath this paint
We inte[C]rrupt these [G]liberal saints with their
[F]Whips and [E]watermelon
[CHORUS]
[Am]Reports are coming in [F]of a [Dm]coal-train [G]robbery
[Am]It's like [F]another world, [Dm]or it had [G]better be
So we r[Am]eturn to whitewashed [G]pout of his
Committed li[F]ps
Since he was [C]declared the [G]long lost [F]fountain
Of [G]youth that [E]drips and drips and [E7]drips
They'll be [F]sending him round from door to door
To [G]sell you back what's already yours
[C]"So many good deeds, so [G]little time"
Say the [C]advertising agency [G]swine [E] [E7]
When [F]man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
I [G]hope no living thing cries over his bones
If you [C]don't believe that I'm [G]going for good
You can [C]count the days I'm gone and [G]chop up
The chairs for [E]firewoo[E7]d
[CHORUS]
[Am]Reports are coming in [F]of a [Dm]coal-train [G]robbery
[Am]It's like [F]another world, [Dm]or it had [G]better be
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