God Bless The Absentee

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Lord, I am a working man

    Fm7   Eb    Bb9
And music is my trade

    Fm7       Eb        Bb7
I'm travelin' with this five-piece band

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I play the ace of spades

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   I have a wife and family

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    But they don't see much of me

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God bless the absentee


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Lord, I am a surgeon

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And music is my knife

   Fm7   Eb     Bb7
It cuts away my sorrow

   C9          C7-9  
It purifies my life

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   But if I could release my heart

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And veins and arteries

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 I'd say God bless the absentee


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     I miss my woman so

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      I miss my bed

Cm7-5              Cbmaj7
      I miss those soft places

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I used to lay my head


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     My son don't need me yet

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      His bones are soft

   Cm7-5          Cbmaj7
He flies a silver airplane

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He wears a golden cross


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God bless the absentee

           Fm7       Eb         Bb9
Lord, this country's changed so fast

    Fm7    Eb     Bb7
The future is the present

    C9               C7-9 
The present's in the past

    Fm       Eb/G   Ab6 A07
The highways are in litigation

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The airports disagree

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God bless the absentee