Loudon Wainwright - The Picture / Men Chords

Music now from a man who's a frickin' hobo to Northern [G] Ireland.
He's the songwriter's songwriter, and by that I mean he's the fella that songwriters listen to when they have a night off.
From the USA, here is Loudon Wainwright III singing a song entitled The Picture. _
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_ _ _ There are pictures on [Cm] the piano, _ _ _ pictures of the [Eb] family,
_ _ _ mostly my [Cm] kids but there's an old [Gm] _ [Ab] _ picture [Eb] of you and me.
[Gm] _ _ You were [Ab] five and I was [Eb] six in _
_ [Bb] _ 1952.
[Gm] _ [Eb] _ That was [Cm] 40 years ago.
[Ab] _ [Gm] How could [Eb] it be true?
We were sitting [Cm] outside _ drawing at [Ab] a table [Eb] meant for cards.
_ And it must [Cm] have been in autumn, _ [Ab] fallen leaves [Eb] in the front yard.
[Gm] With a shoebox full [Ab] of crayons, full of [Eb]
[Gm] colors oh so bright.
_ [Eb] In a picture in a [Cm] plastic [Ab] frame, a [Gm] snapshot [Eb] black and white.
_ You were looking at [Cm] my paper, _ _ [Ab] _ _
watching [Eb] what I drew.
_ It was natural I was [Cm] older, _ [Ab] _ 13 [Eb] months more than [Gm] you. _ _
A brother [Ab] and a sister, _ _ [Eb] a little [Gm] boy and girl.
_ _ [Eb] And whoever took [Cm] that picture, _ _ [Ab] they [Gm] captured [Eb] our own world. _ _ _
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_ _ A brother [Cm] needs a sister _
_ [Ab] to watch what he [Eb] can do. _
_ To protect [Cm] and to torture, _
[Gm] _ [Ab] to boss [Eb] around it's [Gm] true.
But a brother will [Ab] defend her [Eb] for a sister's [Gm] love is pure. _
_ [Eb] _ Because she [Cm] thinks he's [Bb] wonderful [Ab] when he [Gm] is not [Eb] so sure.
In the picture [Cm] there's a fender _
[Gm] _ [Ab] of our old [Eb] _ Chevrolet _ or Pontiac [Cm] our dad would [Gm] know.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] Surely he could say, [Gm] but dad is [Ab] dead and we grow old.
[Eb] It's true that [Gm] time flies by [Eb] and in 40 years [Cm] the world has [Ab] changed as [Gm] well [Eb] as you and _ I.
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_ _ _ Loudon Wainwright III.
Beautiful song.
From all of us, good night.
And give another big hand to Loudon Wainwright III.
See you on the radio. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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When a ship is sinking [B] and they lower the _ lifeboats [A] and hand out the life _ jackets.
[E] The men keep on their coats.
_ _ _ _ The women and the children _ _ are the [B] ones who must go first.
[E] And [A] the men who try to save their [E] skins are cowards and are cursed.
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_ Every man's a captain.
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Men know how to drown. _ _ _
[B] _ Man the [E] lifeboats if there's [A] room, _ otherwise [E] go down. _
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_ _ _ _ _ And it's the same when there's a war on.
It's [B] the men who go to fight. _
[Em] [A] Women and children are civilians.
[E] When they're killed it's not right. _ _ _ _ _ _
Men kill men in uniform. _ _
[B] _ It's the way war _ [A] goes.
When they run they're cowards.
[E] When they stay they are heroes.
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_ Every man's a general.
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Men go off to war.
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_ The [Em] battlefield's a man's [A] world.
_ [E] Cannon fodder's what they're for.
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_ _ _ _ _ It's _ the men who have the power. _
_ It's the men who have [B] the might.
_ [E] And the [A] world's a place of horror _ [E] because each man thinks he's right.
_ _ _ _ A man's home is his castle. _
So the [Abm] family let him in.
[A] But what's important in that kingdom _ _ [E] is the women and children. _
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A husband and a _ [E] father.
Every man's a king.
_ But [B] he's really just a drone.
[E] _ _ [B] Gathers [A]
no honey, has [E] no _ [A] sting.
Have pity on the general, _
[E] the king and the captain. _ _
[B] _ They know they're _ [E] expendable [A] _ after all [E] they're men. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ you