Introduction:

A:-5-9-4---7-2-0---2-5-4-
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Chords to use:
D  2220
A  2100
G  0232
A7 0100

D
A Tuesday night in Winter, 
A
holed up in the city of ravens, 
D
The owls in the hills hoo-hooing and eyeing off the 
A
field mice down in the cold grey centre, 
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Addle Brains lining up with the dead for the soup spoon, 
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Addle Brains and the legions of the passed for the bread bag, 
D
Ladle the soup, pass the rolls, 
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Addle Brains and the many not here and loose souls. 
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One might fly off to the blank heavens and the lead high halls, 
           D						A
O the hungry sky aches for blokes without folks and bulges with the bearers of palls. 
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Addle Brains would drink for four days and no eats, 
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and sleep in the glens of botanical parks, and on the humped bus shelter seats, 
  D  G  A
Where it's cold, 
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where it's cold. 

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One morning I woke up in a room in the nation's heart, 
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and couldn't think for the life of me what I was doing, or where to start, 
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or what rehearsal was required, I was so sad and tired. 

D
What does a bird want with money? 
A
Was he made this way? 
D
Do you have to earn the right to find all of this funny? 
A
Nothing's funny today. 

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Addle Brains mixes his powders with his fateful blues, 
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and the wide-eyed bubs of the Parliament couldn't give a hoot, or even two. 

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All it takes, it takes, is a kind look and a word, a word, 
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Some pretty eyes and skin, from your fine family you were given to win, 
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and spill it over into the basin of common sin, 
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just a drop, a drop of the stuff that makes us kin 
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Addle Brains perching way out on a limb.