The Fletcher Memorial Home

G
C
Take all your overgrown infants away,
G~B
Am
some    where,
D
And build them a home,
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Bm
A~C~
a little place of their own.
D
Em
The Fletcher Memorial
C
D
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Home for incurable tyrants
D~F~
G
C
and      kings.
G
C
G~B
Am
And they can appear to themselves every day,
D
On closed circuit T.V.
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Bm
A~B
Bm
to make sure they’re still real.
C
D
Em
It’s the only connection they feel.
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please welcome Reagan and Haig,
D
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley,
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Mr. Brezhnev and party, the ghost of McCarthy,
D
The memories of Nixon. And now adding colour,
G
A group of anonymous
D~F~
C
Latin-American meat packing glitterati.”
Em
Did they expect us to treat them
D
with any respect?
G
D~F~
They can polish their medals
C
and sharpen their smiles,
G
D~F~
And amuse themselves
C
playing games for a while.
G
D~F~
Boom boom, bang bang,
C
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lie down you’re dead.
G
D~F~
Em
D~F~
G
D~F~
Em
D
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D
G
D~F~
C
D
G
D~F~
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D
G
D~F~
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G
C
Safe in the permanent gaze
G~B
Am
of a cold glass eye,
D
With their favorite toys,
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they’ll be good girls and boys.
A~C~
D
Em
In      the Fletcher Memorial
C
D
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D~F~
G
Home for colonial wasters of life     and      limb.
D~F~
C
G
D~F~
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Is everone in? Are you having a nice time?
D~F~
C
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Now the final solution can be applied.

A~B

A~C~

D~F~

G~B

Cmaj7

D

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Em

Am

G

Bm

Em7

C

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