Please let me know what you think -- I'm not too sure about the chorus, but it's coming right from ear.
Oh, Brother!
Joan Baez
1977 (?)
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You've got eyes like Jesus
G
But you speak with a viper's tongue
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We were just sitting around on earth
G
Where the hell did you come from?
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With your lady dressed in deerskin
G
And an amazing way about her
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When are you going to realize
Em
That you just can't live without her?
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Take it easy
G
Take it light
Bm
But take it....
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Your lady gets her powers
G
From the goddess and the stars
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You get yours from the trees and the brooks
G
And a little from life on Mars
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And I've known you for a good long while
G
And would you kindly tell me, mister
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How in the name of the Father and the Son
Em
Did I come to be your sister?
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Take it easy
G
Take it light
Bm
But take it....
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You've done dirt to lifelong friends
G
With little or no excuses
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Who endowed you with the crown
G
To hand out these abuses?
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Your lady knows about these things
G
But they don't put her under
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Me, I know about them, too
Em
And I react like thunder
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Take it easy
G
Take it light
Bm
But take it....
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I know you are surrounded
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By parasites and sycophants
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When I come to see you
G
I dose up on coagulants
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Because when you hurl that bowie knife
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It's going to be when my back is turned
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Doing some little deed for you
Em
And baby, will I get burned
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Take it easy
G
Take it light
Bm
But take it....
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So little brother when you come
G (/f# Em) D
To knock on my door
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I don't want to bring you down
G
But I just went through the floor
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My love for you extends through life
G
And I don't want to waste it
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But honey, what you've been dishing out
G
You'd never want to taste it
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And if I had the nerve
G
To either risk it or to break it
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I'd put our friendship on the line
Em
And show you how to take it
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...Easy
G
...Light
Bm
But to take it