Big League Chords by Tom Cochrane & Red Rider

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When he was a kid, he'd be up at five, take shots till eight, and make the thing drive.
Out of the school, and back on ice, that was his life.
He was gonna play in the big league. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] The big league! _ _ _ _ _
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Not many ways out of this cold northern town, you work in the mill, and [G] you're laid in the ground.
[D] And if you're gonna jump, it'll be with a game.
Real fast and tough is the only claim to the big league. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ My boy's gonna play in the big league.
[G] _ My boy's [Bm] gonna turn some [D] heads.
My boy's gonna play in the big [G] league.
My boy's [Bm] gonna knock him dead.
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[D] The big league. _ _ _ _ _
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All the right moves when he turned eighteen.
_ Scholarship in school on [G] a big US team.
[D] Out with his girl in Lake McQueen.
Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane to the big league. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ My boy's gonna play in the big league.
[C] _ My boy's [Bm] gonna turn [E] some heads.
[D] _ My boy's gonna play in the big [G] league.
My boy's gonna knock him dead.
[C] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Oh, [G] you never can tell when I come down.
[D] You never can tell when you might check out.
[C] Yes, oh no, no, [G] you never can tell. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Sometimes at night I can hear the ice crack.
It sounds like thunder and it rips through my back.
Sometimes in the morning I still hear the sound. _
Ice meets metal.
Can't you drive me down to the big league?
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[D] _ _ boy's gonna play in the big league.
[C] _ My boy's [Bm] gonna turn [D] some [D] heads.
My boy's gonna play in the big [C] league.
My boy's [Bm] gonna knock him [E] dead. _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [G] _
[D] You never can tell when I come down.
[C] You never can tell [G] when you might [D] check out.
Yes, oh no, no, you never can tell.
[C] So do what to [G] others like you do to yourself in [D] the big league. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] Oh, _ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _
[D] the big league. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] Oh, _ [D] the big league. _ _ _ _ _ _
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