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Taking Your Life In Your Hands Tab

by John Cale


Taking Your Life In Your Hands

Intro:              

                               
The children are all leaving school today
                                 /  
Mama said, don't worry, I'll be back one day
                                         
The blue men in uniform smiled and waved goodbye
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She was hiding those tears in her eyes

                             
Roll up the history books, burn the chairs
                           /     
Set fire to anything, set fire to the air
                            
They're riding to begin and running at the end
                                         
'Cause mama said, you take your life in your hands

Taking your life, your life in your hands
But don't take your life in your hands like I did
                                             
I don't feel so bad, and always look forward with hope
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Forward and hope that the children will always be there

Cancel the day, cancel the night
Cancel the day, cancel the night
'Cause who could be watching when she steals and runs away
Full of hysterical laughter, and say

Mama, mama, I've left school today
I hope I get to see you in that funny school far away
But those gentle men in blue, and those in grey
Say I'll never, never see mama again

                                
'Cause she took those lives in her hands
                                 
Yes, she took all those lives in her hands
                             
Yes, she took those lives in her hands
    						     
But let me wonder, what was there left in those hands?





by: José Duarte