Chords for Dignity

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_ _ Fat man looking at a blade of steel.
_ _ _ Thin man looking at his last meal.
_ _ [Eb] _ Hollow man looking at a cotton field for _ dignity. _ _ _
_ _ _ Wise man looking at a blade of grass.
_ Young man looking at the shadows that pass.
_ [Ab] _ Old man looking to baby [Eb] bladders _ for dignity. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve.
_ _ [Ab] Somebody said dignity [Eb] was the first to leave.
_ [Ab] I went into the city, [Eb] went into the town, [F] went into the land at the midnight sun.
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[Eb] _ Searching high, _ searching low, _ searching everywhere I know. _
_ [Ab] _ Asking the cops [Eb] wherever I go, have you seen [Eb] dignity? _
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_ _ Blind man breaking out of a trance.
_ Puts his both hands in the pockets of chance.
_ [Ab] Hoping to find one such thing _ of dignity. _ _ _ _
_ _ I went to the wedding of Mary Lou.
_ _ She said I don't want nobody to see me talking to you.
_ Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew about dignity. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] I went down with a lurch _ asleep.
[Ab] I would have gone deeper but there wasn't any need.
_ _ [Ab] Heard the tongues of angels [Eb] and the tongues of men.
_ [Fm] Wasn't any difference to [Bb] me. _ _ _ _ _ _
Chili win shop was a razor blade.
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[Eb] House on fire, _ debts unpaid.
[Ab] Gonna stand at the window, [Eb] gonna ask the maid.
Have you seen dignity? _ _
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Drinking man listening to his voice he hears. _ _
In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors. _
[Ab] Looking into the last [Eb] forgotten years. _
About dignity.
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Met Miss Phillip at the home of the blues. _ _
Said he gave me information.
If his name wasn't [Eb] used, [Ab] he wanted money up front.
[Eb] Said he was abused by dignity.
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[Bb] _ Footprints running across the silver sand. _
[Ab] Steps slowing down [Eb] into tattoo land.
[Ab] I met the sons of darkness [Eb] and the sons of light.
[F] In a border town of despair.
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] Got no place to fade.
Got no coat.
I'm on the roller river. _
In a jerking boat.
[Ab] Trying to read a note [Eb] _ somebody wrote.
About dignity. _
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_ _ _ _ _ Sitting there looking for the doctor's cure.
_ _ Looking at hands for the lines that were.
[Ab] And into every masterpiece of literature.
_ For dignity. _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ Englishman stranded in a black hot wind.
_ _ Combing his hair back, his future looks red.
_ [Ab] _ Bites the bullet [Eb] and he looks with it.
About dignity. _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed.
_ [Ab] _ Dignity never been [Eb] photographed.
_ _ [Ab] I went into the red. _
[Eb] Went into the black.
[Fm] Into the valley of dry bone [Bb] trees. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] So many roads.
So much at stake. _
Too many dead ends.
I'm at the edge of the lane. _
[Ab] Sometimes I wonder.
[Eb] What it's gonna take.
To find dignity.
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