Key: D
Introduction: Am Dm7 Am G
Am C G
Lather was thirty years old today,
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They took away all of his toys.
Am C G
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
Em D C
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
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There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
Am Em D
His leather chair waits at the bank.
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And Seargent Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
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Commanding his very own tank.
C D Em
But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
C D Em
To lie about nude in the sand,
C D Em
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
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And thrashing the air with his hands.
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But wait, oh Lather's productive you know,
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He produces the finest of sound,
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Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
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Am C G
Lather was thirty years old today,
Em D C
And Lather came foam from his tongue.
Am C G
He looked at me eyes wide and plainly said,
Em D C
Is it true that I'm no longer young?
Em D F D
And the children call him famous,
Am Em D
What the old men call insane,
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And sometimes he's so nameless,
Am Em D
That he hardly knows which game to play...
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Which words to say...
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And I should have told him, "No, you're not old."
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And I should have let him go on...smiling...babywide.