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Stranger – Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers
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Tabbed by: cg10
Thanks to the cover of BurnedFrets on YouTube.
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When I was a child
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My mother would tuck me into bed
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And each night as she kissed me
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These are the words that she said
She said
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Don’t go to bed with strangers
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Don’t play with the dead
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Always keep your wits sharp
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Like an axe inside the shed
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Yay diridi....
Cm
When I was just a schoolboy
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My father he spoke unto me
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He said boychick my son
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Don't trust anyone
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And remember that nothing is free
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And the world is full of strangers
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The world is full of dread
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The world is full of sharpened wits
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And millions of tears you will shed
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Yay diridi....
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Cm
Well, when I was a young man
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My professor at university
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Said advice is corrupting
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Don't ever be trusting
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Don't show your emotion
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Human suffering is an ocean
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And it's dark at the bottom of the sea
Cm
And there's no such thing as a stranger
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We’re all equally backwards and wrong
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Sharpen axes not wits,
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Bones are broken by sticks
G Cm
And you’ll never be free till you're strong
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Yay diridi...
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Well, young man grow older
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And the world gets colder
Ab G
Though it never was warm to begin
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Don't let down your guard
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For the reaper works hard
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And it will not take pause till you’re dead
Well
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Now I'm old and I'm rusty
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My troubles like sand on the beach
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They can't be calculated
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I always have waited
G Cm
For something just out of reach
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And I to myself am a stranger
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My heart is of iron and lead
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My world is resounding
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With miseries abounding
G Cm
There’s only one thing to be said
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I'll say
Yay diridi...
Cm Ab
Yay dilidi day dilididay Yay dilidi day dayday
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Diliday dayday Dilidi daydayday
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Dayday dayday dayday
