What Keeps Mankind Alive Chords by Tom Waits

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[Ab] _ [D] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You gentlemen who think you have a [A] mission [D] to _ _ _ _ purge us of the seven [Eb] deadly sins
_ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ [Bb] Should [Gb] first sort [F] out the [Gb] basic food [G] position _
Then start your preaching
[D] _ That's where it [Eb] begins
[D] _ _ [Gm] You lot who preach restraint and [D] watch your waste as well
_ _ [A] Should run for [D] once the way the [Bb] world is run _ _
[Db] However much [Bb] you twist _ [Db] or whatever [F] lies that you [Cm] tell
_ [F] Food is the first [Db] thing
[C] _ _ _ [Bbm] Morals follow on
_ [Eb] So first make [Bb] sure that those who [Db] are now [C] starving _
Get [F] proper helpings
_ When we [Bb] all start [Gb] carving
_ _ [Bm] _ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] What keeps mankind alive?
_ _ _ _ [Ab] What _ [Bb] keeps mankind alive?
_ _ Mankind alive
[Gm] The [E] fact that _ [A] billions
[Eb] _
Are [Ab] daily [G] tortured, [D] stifled, punished, [F] [Dbm] silenced and oppressed
_ _ [E] Mankind [Gbm] can keep _ [B] alive
[Gbm] Thanks to [F] its [Dm] _ _ brilliance _
_ [C] And [E] keeping [C] its _ _ [Gb] humanity [Eb] _ repressed _ _
[G] Well for once [F] you must [Eb] try not _ to [D] shrink [Gm] the facts
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ [Eb] _
_ Mankind _ [Gb] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [F] is kept _ [Eb] alive _ by beastial acts
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