The Plague

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Dm              F                          Am 
  The hospitals filled with coke-colored eyes 
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And nobody knows 
                 F                         Am 
The measles and mumps don't come close in size 
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Won't leave us alone 
           F                       Am 
Created a packed-out room in the sky 
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Where Heaven would go 
                  F                     Am 
The smell so grotesque it kills your insides 
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And downward you go 
 

 
              F                    Am 
Put your mask on, bastard, hazard, bye 
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Don't take it off 'til there are better times 
              F                   {AM} 
Never heard a bad lung cough so dry 
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Go be by yourself, don't wanna die 
 

 
        F                   Am 
Oh, the days move fast, it seems 
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Rotting bodies from gangrene 
         F              Am 
Wash the air with rosemary 
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It's the plague this century 
        F                Am 
No more coins to pay to live 
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All my lovers died from this 
         F                Am 
Nuclear war will take us next 
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Oh, the plague, it took my breath 
 

 
Dm                  F                        Am 
  Stand six feet away, please don't get too close 
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Won't catch what you got 
              F                    Am 
I've had it before, and it was enough 
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To make me give up 
                F                   Am 
People are just dying right on the block 
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And nobody cares 
               F                   Am 
When crisis is near, their apathy calls 
                  Dm 
It's all they can hear 
 

 
              F                     Am 
Put your mask on, bastard, hazard, bye 
                                 C#dim   Dm 
Don't take it off 'til there are better times 
              F                   Am 
Never heard a bad lung cough so dry 
                         C#dim  Dm 
Go be by yourself, don't wanna die 
 

 
        F                   Am 
Oh, the days move fast, it seems 
                    C#dim  Dm 
Rotting bodies from gangrene 
         F              Am 
Wash the air with rosemary 
                     C#dim Dm 
It's the plague this century 
        F               Am 
No more coins to pay to live 
              C#dim     Dm 
All my lovers died from this 
        F                 Am 
Nuclear war will take us next 
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Oh, the plague, it took my breath 
Dm        F                   Am 
  Oh, the days move fast, it seems 
                    C#dim   Dm 
Rotting bodies from gangrene 
         F             Am 
Wash the air with rosemary 
                     C#dim  Dm 
It's the plague this century 
                        Am 
No more coins to pay to live 
                         Dm 
All my lovers died from this 
                          Am 
Nuclear war will take us next 
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Oh, the plague, it took my 
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