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   A              D            A
He spends all his weeks in the bread line
   D                          A
He spends all his weekends in jail
   Hm                      F#m
He spends all his money on dead ends
    A          D             E
And always has something for sale
   A            D         A
He doesn’t know how to do different
   D/A                        A
He lives with his head in the sand
D 
Playing his role
C#m          F#m
Stuck on the dole
    A        E        A
The son of a landless man

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| A | E | A |  A  |
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A            D          A
No one never called him ambitious
   D                  A
He never pretended to be
   Hm                              F#m
He bummed around the pool halls to kill time
        A              D            E
When he dropped out of school at sixteen
       A          D          A
It was there that he met his ex-wife
               D/A                A
It should have ended before it began
    D                       C#m       F#m
She batted her eye lids and had a few kids
     A            E        A
With the son of a landless man
     A            E        A
With the son of a landless man

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        A            D        A
Now the wife and the kids are gone now
   D                            A
He don’t have a clue where they are
   Hm                        F#m
As one night he pulled out a rifle
      A        D           E
In an argument he took too far
    A            D       A
Now someone says he cant see them
      D/A                      A
It’ll be a long time before he can
    D                       C#m         F#m
His three little girls, all giggles and curls
        A        E        A
and the son of a landless man
        A        E        A
Another son of a landless man

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| A | E | A |  A  |
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