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Intro: F#m
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Some folks ride like the wind,
D A
With the whispering pines to guide them,
D A
And the burning light inside them
E
Keeps them warm in the snow.
A
Others fear the sounds they hear,
D A
Make banditos out of molehills,
A D
Fill their hearts with porcupine quills,
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They're dead and buried long before they go.
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Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand,
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And his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand,
D A
The angels wouldn't take him up to heaven like he planned,
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'Cuz they couldn't pry that gun from his Cold Dead Hand.
E D A
It takes a cold, dead hand to decide to pull the trigger,
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Takes a cold, dead heart, and as near as I can figure,
C#m D A
With your cold, dead aim, you're trying to prove your dick is bigger
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But we know,
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Your chariot may not be swinging low.
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Cold, Dead Hand.
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Cold, Dead Hand.
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Cold, Dead Hand.
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Cold, Dead hand.
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You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland,
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So you need something bigger just to fill your...Cold Dead Hand.
A D A
Imagine if the Lord were here, and he knew what you've been thinkin',
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Would his sacred heart be sinkin', into the canyon of dismay?
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And on the ones who sell the guns, he'd sick the vultures and coyotes,
D A
Only the devil's true devotees
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Could profiteer from pain and fear.
(Repeat verses 3-5)
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You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland,
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So you need something bigger with a hairpin trigger,
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You don't wanna get caught with your trousers down,
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When the psycho killer comes around.
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So you make your home like a Thunderdome,
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And you're always packin' everywhere you roam,
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And the psychos win no matter what you do,
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'Cuz they're gonna buy way more guns than you.
(double time)
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And while you're stumblin' out of bed,
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they put five rounds in the back of your head,
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Or you get depressed 'cuz the money went South,
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and you put your own shotgun in your mouth,
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and your kids walk in and they find you there,
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like a headless lump in your underwear,
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and they move the gun and it kills them too,
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and your wife just doesn't know what to do,
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so she takes a hand-grenade from her shoe,
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and she pulls the pin.
And it's all on you...
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And your Cold, Dead Hand.
(final notes? D-C#-B-A-G#-F#)