So You Say You Lost Your Baby
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E A
Well you're smolderin' with fly words,
C D E
Catch the moment on the run.
A
And you say there's nothin' easy
C D E
About the plywood tract you're from.
A
And you stand inside your wind stilts;
D E
Watch the sentence act begun.
E G
So you say you lost your baby
A C E
Do you know that your the one.
A
With the stand to watch the trials go,
C D E
from here to there behind the scene.
E A
Throw your troubles to the moon troughs,
C D E
To swallow up like stormy dreams.
A
Take an entrance to a stand-off,
D E
Looking if there's such a sigh.
G
And you say you lost your baby,
A C E
wondering if its in your lie.
E A
Well you fly your banners Monday,
C D E
that take a rise and fall in one.
A
Ask the questions of the pilgrims,
C D E
As they come to pledge what's done.
A
Claim a tabernacle hillside
D E
where you sight the dyin' sun
G
So you say you lost your baby,
A C E
don't you know that you're the one.
G
So you say you lost your baby,
A C E
Don't you know that you're the one.
From Gene Clark & The Gosdin Brothers
Columbia Records 1967
How to play So You Say You Lost Your Baby
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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