It’s alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding)
Em + G - A
- Em (8x) - E
Em
1. Darkness at the break of noon,
A
shadows even the silver spoon,
Em
the handmade blade, the
child's balloon
A
eclipses both the sun and moon,
C Em
to understand you know too
soon, there is no sense in trying.
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Em
2. Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn,
A
suicide remarks are torn
Em
from the fool's gold
mouthpiece the hollow horn
A
plays wasted words proves to
warn
C Em + G - A - Em (3x) - E
that he not busy being born is
busy dying.
Em
3. Temptation's page flies out the door,
A
you follow, find yourself at
war,
Em
watch waterfalls of pity roar,
A
you feel to moan but unlike
before,
C
Em
you discover that you'd just
be one more person crying.
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A D E
A
So don't fear when you hear a
foreign sound to your ear,
it's alright, Ma, I'm only
sighing.
Em
4. A question in your nerves is lit,
A
yet you know there is no
answer fit
Em
to satisfy insure you not to
quit,
A
to keep it in your mind and
not forget
C
Em
that it is
not he or she or them or it that you belong to.
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A D E A
Although the masters make the
rules for the wise men and the fools,
I’ve got nothing, Ma, to live
up to.
Em
5. For them that must obey authority
A
that they do not respect in
any degree,
Em
who despise their jobs, their destiny,
A
speak jealously of them that
are free,
C
do what they do, just to be
nothing more
Em
than something they invest in.
+ G - A - Em (5x) + G - A -
E (Roger McGuinn)