Chords for Poe: Walk the Walk

[A] Mother [D] spent 10 years sitting by a window, scared if [C] she spoke she would die [Am] of a heart attack.
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[Am] She listened as her [G] dreams [Dm] silently screamed, they drowned like little [C] dolphins caught [Am] in a fishnet.
[G] _ [Ab] Dear world, I'm pleased to meet you.
[Am] Hey everybody, [D] when you walk the walk, you gotta back it all up, [C] can you talk the talk?
[Am] Hey everybody, [G] when I hear [D] the knock, don't wanna measure out my life, [C] so they take off the clock.
[Am] Hey everybody, [D] when my daddy died, he had a sad, sad story [C] living in his eyes.
[A] Hey everybody, [G] when you walk [D] the walk, you gotta measure out your life, [C] so they take off the clock.
[A] I wanna walk _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [C] to _
[A] the beat of [D] my own drum.
_ [G] _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] Hey [A] everybody, when you walk, you gotta back [D] it all up, can you talk the talk?
[Em] Hey everybody, when I hear [Am] the knock, don't wanna measure out [Bm] my life, so they take off the clock.
[Am] [Dm] Hey [A] everybody, when I hear the knock, [B] _ _
[Am] don't wanna measure [G] out my life, [D] _ _ [Am] so they take off the clock.
I wanna walk to the beat [G] of my [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] own _ _ [D] drum.
_ _ [Am] _ _
To the beat of my own drum, [D] I wanna live.
To the beat of my [Am] own drum, I wanna laugh.
To the beat of my own drum, [D] I wanna think, step, project, believe, and then [Am] tick-tack.
To the beat of my own drum, [D] I wanna give, oh, to the beat of my own drum.
[Am] [D] I can't resist, [G] I take my, _ _ [A] my [G] gas, ten years [Dm] living on the outside, me [C] and Lily, but she [Am] will never get [G] back.
_ [Dm] Then, [C] when they're back, [Am] watch as [Dm] me walk across the silver screen, and you'll be [C] standing there, windows clear, [Am] when it gets black.
[G] _ Dear world, I'm pleased to [A] meet you.
Hey everybody, [Dm] when you walk the walk, you gotta back it all up, [Cm] can you talk the talk?
[A] Hey everybody, [Dm] when I hear the knock, don't wanna measure out my life, so they take [C] off the clock.
[A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ Hey everybody, [C] when you walk the walk, you gotta _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ [D] back it all up, can you talk [Am] the talk?
I wanna walk to the beat [G] of my own [D] drum.
_ [Am] _ _
To the beat [G] of my own _ [D] drum, [Am] I _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [D] wanna sing.
To the beat of my own drum, [Am] I wanna pray.
To the beat of my own drum, [D] I wanna make them fast, they're blazing, [Am] they're in shoes, girl.
To the beat of my [D] own drum, I wanna take it out again and do it to [Am] my drum.
Squish that [D] fire, when they call out, [G] on the down, I scream, make [A] love to my [G] baby.
_ _ [D] Make [Am] love to me.
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[E] It's a wonderful idea. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ So, _ if you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke, [D] you think you've got it, take it out, and then you [A] find that you don't.
See, you think about it, don't walk, and now you're frozen in place.
[D] You've got no sense, you're not, you're not, you've got no time or place.
[A] So, you're _ [D] frozen for some of your [Am] life, you know your life is a love to [A] start.
[D] Oh [Am] yeah, bring it on.
Hey everybody, [D] _ _ hey everybody, [Am] hey [A] everybody.
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[A] I wanna sing, I _ [D] _ _ wanna [A] sing, I _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ wanna walk [D] to the beat of my [A] own drum.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] To the beat of my [Am] own drum.
_ [D] To _ _
[Am] _ _ the [D] beat of my [A] own drum.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ Mother, why'd [Am] you hit her?
_ Why?
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