4 X 10 Cifras

Loudon Wainwright III
4 X 10, from the album "History" (1992)
 
[Intro]
      C           Am             C           Am
e|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|----1------------1-------------1------------1--------|
G|-----------------2--------------------------2--------|
D|----2------------2-------------2------------2--------|
A|----3-------3----------0-------3-------3-------------|
E|---------3----------------3---------3----------------|
 
 
[Verse 1]
C                 Am
It's not strange, no mystery
C         Am
You and I are history
 C          Am
I put up my protective wall
    C                Am
It's 4 feet thick and  10 feet tall
 
 
[Interlude]
C Am C Am
 
 
[Verse 2]
C                Am
10 feet tall and 4 feet thick
C                 Am
Granite, concrete, steel and brick
C                  Am
Protection for you understand
C               Am
The little boy, the inner man
 
 
[Interlude]
C Am C Am
 
 
[Bridge]
F
Boys kiss the girls
Fm
Then make them cry
C        C/B        Am
That's a man's job, that is why
F             Fm
When you cry, you're just a clone
   C     C/B   Am     G    (Fsus2 Em  G Fsus2 Em)
Of every woman I have known
 
 
[Verse 3]
C                Am
And every Harry, Dick and Tom
C                Am
Gets all of this shit from his mom
C                Am
Who was unhappy, mom was sad
C                 Am
Because of a wall that dad had
 
 
[Interlude]
C Am C Am x2
 
 
[Verse 4]
C                  Am
And once its up it wont come down
C                 Am
And mom's a queen and dad's a clown
C                 Am
It's not strange, no mystery
C                  Am
That you and I are history
 
 
[Outro]
C Am C Am
 
C                     Am
It's 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall
 
C Am C Am
(Fade out)
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