Chords for Runs in the Family

_ _ _ My friend has problems [Am] with winter and autumn, [F] they give him prescriptions, they shine bright
lights on him, they say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch
it, but sometimes you're born with it.
My friend has [Am] plight, he gets shakes in the night, [F] and they say that there's no [Am] way that
they could have [F] caught it.
In time, takes its toll [Am] on him, it is [F] traditional, it is [Am] inherited predisposition.
[Dm] All day I've been [C] wondering what is inside [F] of me, who can I blame [G] for it?
I [Dm] say it runs in the family, the stamina [F] it carries me, to [C] such great lengths to open
[Bb] my legs up to anyone [Dm] who'll have me.
It runs [F] in the family, I come [C] by it honestly, to [Bb] ensure workers who don't take [Dm] my pill me
up, me [F] up, me up, me [C] up, me up, me [Bb] up, me up, [Dm] me up, me up, me up, me [F] up, me up, [C]
me
up, [Bb] me up, me up, [F] me up, me up, me up, me up, me up.
My friend's depressed, [Am] she's a wreck, she's a mess, [F] they've done all sorts of tests, [Am] and
they guess it has something [F] to do with her [Am] grandmother's, grandmother's, [F] grandmother's,
Civil War soldiers [Am] who've madly infected [F] her.
My friend has [Am] maladies, regibs and [F] allergies that she takes back to [Am] the 17th century, [F] somehow
she manages it, in her misery, [F] strips in their city, [Am] and shies all her best tricks [F] from me.
Well, I'm well, well, [Am] I mean I'm in hell, well, [F] I still have my health at [Am] least, that's
what they tell me, [F] if wellness is this one, [Am] and hell's name is sickness, [F] but business
is business, and business runs in [Dm] the family.
We tend [F] to root easily, fat [C] in the blood, I'm telling [Bb] you cause I just want you [D] to know
me, know me and [F] my family, we're [C] wonderful folks, but it's okay [Bb] to go to [Dm] jail, cause
you might not be up, [F] me up, me up, [C] me up, me up, [Bb] me up, me up, [Dm] me up, me up, me up,
[F] me up, me up, me up, [Bb] me up, me up, [F] me up, me up, me up.
Mary, have [Am] mercy, now look what I've [F] done, but don't blame me, [Am] because I can't tell
where I [F] come from, and running is [Am] something that we've always [F] done well, and mostly
I [Am] can't even tell where I'm [Dm] running from.
I can't run from the [F] pity, from responsibility, run from the [G] country, and run from the [Dm] city,
I can run from the lot, [E] I can run from myself, [F] I can run from my life, [G] I can run into death,
[Dm] I can run from it all, [F] I can run till I call, I can run for me, I can [G] run for the cause,
I [Dm] can run using every [D] last ounce of energy, [F] I cannot, I cannot, [G] I cannot [Dm] run from my family,
they're hiding [F] inside, I mean, God is [C] a hype, count it if [Bb] you'd like, but [Dm] just don't tell
my family, they'd never [F] forgive me, they'd say that [C] I'm crazy, but they would [Bb] say [Dm] anything
if they would shut me up!
[F] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Dm] Shut me up!
[F] _ _ [C] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] Shut me [F] up!
Me up!
Me up!
Me up!
Me [Bb] up!
Me up!
Me [D] up!
Me up!
Shut me [F] up!
Me up!
Me up!
Me [C] up!
Me up!
Me up! [D] Me up!
Me up!
Me up! Me up! _ _ _