How Did I Get Out Alive

Erik Petersen

Tom:


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Down where the dullards rule; How do you keep a match 
lit in this hole?

C            Em    Am             Em

Up where the idiots lead; Scattering seeds.

         D          C             G            D       

   C             G

Well, we all had to stand for the Pledge. When bones 
were thrown we all fetched.

    D              C         G     D         C

But still, we were burning inside. How did I get out

  A-live?

    G           D             Em            D         G


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And we read here we are free; Sang "this land was made 
for you and me."

C              Em       Am                Em

Watched as the president swore; Called for war.

       D           C              G             D      

    C

We all tied yellow ribbons 'round necks. And we all had
 to stand for the

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Pledge.

   D            C        G      D         C

So smothered by national pride. How did I get out

  A-live?

    G         D           Em          D        G       

  D           Em          D


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Back when the idiots ruled, I was a time bomb brought 
into school.

       C             Em             Am           Em

It was there that we learned up from down; upside-down.

       D             C             G                 D 

          C

It was there that we stood for the pledge. Where the 
living were raised by

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the dead.

       D               C          G         D         C

Led to slaughter, kept inside the lines. So how did I 
get out...

   D          C          G               D            C

      G

By some rebel angel was I blessed? Or by some devil's 
minion led?

       D           C             G     D         C     

  G

One by one, we all choked on the lies. How did I get 
out alive?

G        D          Em         D

Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save

   You.

   C                                      D


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If you struggle and fight, you just may get out,

    Too.

    C                                     D


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Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save

   You.

    C                                     D


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