Bm A  D  G

[Verse 1]
Bm         A               D               G
If I could talk to all the children in the clouds
Bm           A                 D             G
The ones who couldn't help but take it lying down
Bm       A                      D              G
I'd say, despite your fate, you made your papa proud
Bm                A                 D                  G
There's just some things a guy like that can't say out loud
G          F#  G    A   Bm               G
Oh, your mama, well she just didn't know how
G          F#       G  A  Bm               G
A thousand years of being told to shut her mouth
         D
And kept down, down
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Down, down
     D
Kept down, down
D
Down, down

[Verse 2]
Bm         A              D              G
If I could steal away the outcast of the class
Bm            A                D               G
I'd break him out of there and take him to the tracks
Bm           A            D            G
We'd bet all of it on the horse with a broke back
Bm            A                 D                 G
We'd watch it win while all the stallions came in last
G   F#       G   A    Bm                  G
Oh, boy, you see your odds ain't all that bad
G       F#        G   A  Bm                 G
Slim to none, but not so slim you've got to slip
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Between the cracks
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So come back, come back

[Bridge]
F#m       D
   Pretty girl
Bm        G
   Wicked one
F#             D
   Caught your curse
B               Em  F  F#
   Cut out your to--o--ongue


[Instrumental]
F#

Bm        A      D         G
     Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Bm        A      D         G
     Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Bm        A      D         G
     Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Bm        A      D         G
     Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh


[Outro]
G      F#     G   A   Bm                G
One by one we let 'em burn off with the sun
G        F#           G   A     Bm          G       D
Can only hope they're somewhere finally having some fun
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Being young