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This song is for my friends who have had to leave this town due to violence they faced as queer women, and for those who choose to stay and resist it everyday. I included this Cindy Crabb quote cause I thought it made a nice to-do list for me and my male privelidge.

"What would have happened if I'd had a choice, when I was a girl who did not want to be one? If I could have just as easily become a boy, would I have done this work? Would I have accepted and cultivated the masculine in me and continued to belittle the rest? Would I have been committed to radical feminist politics? Would I have been working to blow apart a world that has kept us all in boxes? If I had been able to become a boy, would I have struggled to really understand myself and this world, or would I have been able to just relax with my privilege and finally forget about it?"

Gender Part One by Cindy Crabb (from the Encyclopedia of Doris)

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KEY: D
2/4

INTRO:

Bm(7)

VERSE 1

D

Oh when I heard

A D A G

Those lone-ly words

F#m

Spill out from your mouth

Bm*

I stood up like a scarecrow

F#m Em

With straw bursting out from the seams

F#m Em A

Just walking a friend through the scene

VERSE 2:

The heat and the sweat
Were rallying around your neck
We carried the weight to the exit
And walked with it out in the street
Walked with it out in the street

CHORUS:

Em

Where you singled out one brick

A

And punched it

Em

You singled out his face

A Em*(pause 4) Bm(7)

And cut it up

VERSE 3:

His heart was bruised
His callous brain must get confused
He thinks he owns half of this town here
And says we out to have the blues
He says, "If I've got the blues
You've got the blues"

VERSE 4:

Oh hissing goose
When she attacks, she'll let it rain on you
She'll break both your legs
With her wingspan
And tell all her friends of the news
And tell all her friends of the news

CHORUS:

Em

Where you singled out one brick

A

And punched it

Em

You singled out his face

A Em*(pause 4) Bm(1st chord of outro)

And cut it up

OUTRO:

Bm A# A G

Bm A# D A

Bm A# A G

Bm A# D A

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from OVER THE ROAR OF THE ENGINE, track released January 1, 2013

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