Chords for Favoured Son - Ulysses Dies at Dawn - The Mechanisms

[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Come on in [Dm] boy, I hear you've a right to call me [D] father.
Yeah, me and half the city way I hear it.
Oh come on, don't [Dm] be like that.
I always like to keep an eye on all of my uh_
[C] What, you bastards?
[Dm] You ain't much of a family man.
Oh now that's unfair.
_ _ [C]
See, I'mma [Dm] make you an offer here and now.
Join your Rio family.
Me [F] and [C] Olympian?
Give me [Dm] a break.
No, I'm serious.
Of course, there are a couple of jobs you gotta do [C] first.
_ [Dm] Prove your loyalty. _
_ Welcome to the family.
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
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[C] [Dm] It was nigh a hundred years ago when first I met my father.
He embraced me close and [C] asked if I would [Dm] rather live forever or die.
Olders on the streets, they have their meager years.
And [C] so into the [Dm] acrobat with the fairy man.
A short immortals man.
But the rich they can [C] escape eternal [Dm] tragedy.
Son, what do you say?
I can pay your way.
If you're part, you're playing.
[C] So, receive the [Dm] family as my favorite son.
Lie a life eternal with my bloody tats.
[C] Serve the super [Dm] family as the favorite son.
_ _ Well done.
[C] I hear you're making [Dm] quite a name for yourself.
So they say.
Oh, and [C] congratulations on making me [Dm] a grandfather.
It's about that I want to talk to you, Reg.
I [C] know what you're gonna say.
[Dm] But I'm afraid the offer only extends one generation.
_ [C] Immortality's expensive.
[Dm] Well, there's plenty of work elsewhere, Pops.
Go and freelance.
_ [F]
Maybe I am.
[Dm] I'm sorry to hear that.
Let me know if you ever _ [C] change your [Dm] mind. _ _ _
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[C] _ [Dm] So as the decades passed, I proved myself.
Banished the thunderbolts of Zeus' [C] palace.
The beast was [Dm] having my violent habits.
Rude screams and spouting blood were mothers built to be.
They [C] craved for that [Dm] delighting cause I'm the one he chose.
Against the lofty throes, steadily I [F] rose and [C] showed the world.
My [Dm] pedigree serviced with a smile.
Laughed in all the while.
But I don't want [F] it mild to [C] make my father [Dm] proud of me as his favorite son.
Buy yourself my freedom with these buddies.
Hands in [C] service to the [Dm] family as the favorite son. _ _ _ _ _
[C] The [Dm] fuck did you do?
Me?
Way I hear it, you're the one went crazy, killed his whole [C] family.
[Dm] What the fucking set up?
Let's not quibble about who killed [C] who.
_ [Dm] Fact is, I got you acquitted.
And that costs. _
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ Tell me what I have to do.
Oh don't worry, we got a few things [C] lined [Dm] up. _ _
Welcome home, son. _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ When I awoke I found my own butchery.
I'll ask my children, butchered, bled and carved.
[C] Their limbs and limbs are [Dm] sundered and strewn across the floor.
Once I'll spare them all the pain of my pun.
No [C] time to tempt his mother so [Dm] if they want to retreat.
Block the fucking street.
Shoot them in the knees.
If [C] they try to run [Dm] away when they go to ground.
Burn their houses down.
More will come around.
[C] Hand in service to my [Dm] family as their favorite son.
Buy yourself redemption with my bloodied hands.
Hand in [C] service to the [Dm] family as their favorite son. _ _ _ _
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