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The Great Escape

I Am Kloot
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Strum
D-DU-UDU
You  were born with football  boots and a suntan  complexion
 You once thought  that on reflection,  I've really  got it made
You  shrugged and smiled  and made the usual  excuses
 You suffered  small abuses,  and settled  for their pay
You  want to learn  to live like an  aristocrat
But  your girlfriend's earrings  well they soon  put pay to that
 and if the whole  world came crashing,  down  around your ears
 You could dream  of stucco wallpaper  and crystal  chandeliers
 You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour
 You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope
 A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics
 They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul
 and with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave
 Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade
 Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes
 So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape
 You hung around to long, your mother read your letters
 You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone
 The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper
 and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong
 and your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns
 To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons
 Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, and we'll string them up like drapes
 So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape
 You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion
 You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
 You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

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Readable chord sheet for The Great Escape by I Am Kloot

[E]You were born with [F#m]football boots and a s[B]untan comple[E]xion

You once [A]thought that on ref[F#m]lection, I've r[B]eally got it made

[E]You shrugged and [F#m]smiled and made the [B]usual exc[E]uses

You [A]suffered small a[F#m]buses, and [B]settled for their [E]pay

[A]You want to [F#m]learn to live like a[B]n aristoc[E]rat

[A]But your girlfriend's [F#m]earrings well they s[B]oon put pay to that

and if the [A]whole world came [F#m]crashing, d[B]own around your e[E]ars

You could [A]dream of stucco [F#m]wallpaper and c[B]rystal chandeliers

You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope
A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics
They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul
and with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave
Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape

You hung around to long, your mother read your letters
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone
The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper
and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong
and your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns
To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, and we'll string them up like drapes
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape

You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

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