Chords for Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale - New York Album

[D] _ They [A] say he didn't have an [G] enemy.
[F#m] His [D] was a greatness to [A] behold.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] He was the last surviving progeny.
[G] The [D] last one on this side of the world.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] He [A] measured a half mile from [G] tip to tail.
[A] Silver and [D] black.
With powerful [G] fins. _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] They say he could split a mountain in two.
[D] That's how he got the Grand Canyon.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] The last [A] great American whale.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] The last [A] great American [G] whale. _ _ _
[D] The last [A] great American [G] whale.
_ _ [A] _
[D] The last [A] great American [G] whale. _ _ _
[D] _ Some say they [G] saw him at the Great Lakes.
[D] Some say they saw him off of Florida.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] My mother said she saw him in [G] Chinatown.
_ _ [D]
But you can't always trust your mother.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] Off [F#m] the Carolinas, the [G] sun shines brightly in the day.
[A]
[D] The lighthouse glows ghostly [G] there at night. _ _
[D] _ [A] The chief of a local tribe had killed [G] a racist mayor's [A] son.
[D] He'd [A] been on death row since [G] 1958. _ _
[D] The [A] mayor's kid was a rowdy [G] pig.
Spit on [D] Indians and lots [A] worse.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ The old chief buried a [G] hatchet in his head.
[D]
Life compared to death for him seemed worse.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] All the tribal brothers [G] gathered in the lighthouse to sing.
[A] _
_ [D] And tried to conjure up [G] a storm or a rain. _
[D] The harbor parted.
[G] The great whale sprang [D] full up.
_ _ Caused a [G] huge tidal wave. _
[D] The [A] wave crushed the jail and freed the [G] chief. _ _
[D] The tribe let out a roar.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] The whites would drown.
[A] The [G] browns and reds set [A] free.
[D] But sadly one thing more.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] Some local yokel member [G] of the NRA.
_ [F] _
[D] Kept a bazooka in his living [G] room. _ _
[D] And thinking he had the chief in his sights.
_ [G] _ [D]
Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ Let's create [G] American whale.
_ [D] _
_ Let's create [A] [G] American whale. _ _ _
[D] _ Let's create [A] American [G] whale.
_ _ [D] _
_ Let's create American [G] whale. _ _ _
[D] Well Americans don't care for much of [G] anything.
[D] Land and water the least.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] And animal life is low on the totem pole.
[G] _ [D] _
_ With human life not [G] worth more than infected yeast. _
_ [D] Americans don't care too much for [G] beauty.
_ [A]
[D] They'll shit in a river.
Dump battery [G] acid in a stream.
[Em] _ _
[D] They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach.
[G] _ _ [A]
[D] Complain if they can't swim.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] They say things are done for [G] the majority.
[A] Don't [D] believe half of what you see.
None of what [G] you hear. _ _ _
[D] It's like what my painter friend Donald said to [G] me.
Stick a [D] fork in their ass and turn them over.
They're done.
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