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(all chords relative to capo) C G F C G F C G F Dawn Brady's son C G F Dawn Brady's son C F G Spent all his life in the shadow C G F Just up the road C G F They rent a bungalow C Em G F Am But in the old day his dad raised the flag on a pole F G And the wind made it dance all wrong C G F But raising a son C G F Raising up a son C Em G F Am Asus2 Am He found raising that flag to be easier done F G And when we heard the branch F G And the rope made him dance all wrong C G F Sha na na C G F Sha na na C G F Dawn Brady's son C G F You know the one C Em G F Am His old ma found ways to keep the kerosene on F G She'd drink and she'd dance F G Ooo how she'd dance till the red dawn C G F And the headlights would come C G F She'd sing the same old song C Em G F Am Asus2 Am She'd say 'go on out now child walk a while I wont be long' F G Through the window he'd glance F G At the flame from that kerosene lamp F G But the way that it danced was all wrong C G F Sha na na who'se gonna make it turn out all right C G F Sha na na just a little bump from the tired eyes C G F Sha na na that ought to keep ya shaking all night C G F (Guitar solo begins here at 3:40) C G F C G F C Em F G Am Asus2 Am Am Asus2 Am C G F Dawn Brady's son C G F He got a gun C Em G F Am And waited out by the flagpole there in the lawn F G Just there in the shadow C G F And the boy has got to die C G F To make way for the man inside C Em G F Am But no one told us that flags turn to rags over time F G Still the wind makes us dance F G The wind makes us dance F G
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