Patty Griffin - Tony Chords

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Capo II

(transcribed from an acoustic performance at Calvin College on 4-14-00)

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  anyone     remember Tony  . . . . . . . . etc.

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Does anyone remember Tony?

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He was a quiet boy, a little overweight, he had breasts like a girl

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When I wasn't too busy feeling lonely

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I'd stare over his shoulder at a map of the world

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He always finished all his homework

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Raised his hand in homeroom

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For the morning attendance

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And to pledge allegiance to the gloom

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Hey Tony, what's so good about dying

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I think I might do a little dying today

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Looked in the mirror saw that little faggot staring back at him

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Pulled out a gun and blew himself away

I hated every day of high school
Funny, I guess you did too
Funny how I never knew
There I was sitting right behind you
They wrote it in the local rag
Death comes to the local fag
I guess you finally stopped believing that any hope would ever find you
I knew that story, I was sitting right behind you

Hey Tony, what's so good about dying?
I think I might do a little dying today
He looked in the mirror, saw that little faggot staring back at him
Pulled out a gun, and blew himself away