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Cotton

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C  Bb  Dm  F

C
This song is for the rats
Bb
Who hurled themselves in to the ocean
          Dm                             F
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
     C
Were just about to blow

C
This song is for the soil
Bb
That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
      Dm                          F
Where no thing of consequence can grow
          C
Drop your seeds there
             
Let them go

              Am   C   F  Am
Let them all go
              C   Am   F  Am
Let 'em all go

C  
This song is for the people
Bb
Who tell their families that they're sorry
    Dm                    F                C
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

C 
And once there was a desk
Bb
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
         Dm                                 F
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
  C
I left in the top drawer

              Am   C   F  Am
Let 'em all go
              Am   C   F  Am
Let 'em all go

C  Eb  Bb  C x4

C
I wanna sing one for the cars
Bb
That are right now headed silent down the highway
         Dm                       F
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
    C
And something has got to give

C
I saw you waiting by the roadside
Bb
You didn't know that I was watching
Dm      F
Now you know
C
Let it all go

              Am   C   F  Am
Let 'em all go
              C   Am   F  Am
Let it all go

C  Eb  Bb  C x4