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Common Sense

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Tuning: Standard
[Intro]
G Am D G
[Verse 1]
GYou can't live together
You can't live aAmlone
DConsidering the weather
Oh my, how you've Ggrown
GFrom the men in the factories
To the wild kangaAmroo
Like those Dbirds of a feather
They're gathering together
And feeling exactly like Gyou
[Chorus]
They got Gmesmerized by lullabies
And limbo danced in Cpairs
Please lock that AmdoorD  
It don't make much sense
That common sense
Don't make no sense no Gmore
[Bridge]
CJust between Dyou and Gme
It's Clike Gpulling
When you Dought to be Gshovin,
CLike a Gnun with her Dhead in the Goven
CPlease don't Gtell me
That this Dreally wasn't Gnothing
[Instrumental]
G Am D G
[Verse 2]
GOne of these days
One of these Amnights
DYou'll take off your hat
And they'll read you
Your Grights
GYou'll wanna get high
Every time you feel Amlow
DHey, Queen Isabella
Stay away from that fella
He'll just get you
Into trouble, you Gknow?
[Verse 3]
GBut they came here by boat
And they came here by Amplane
DThey blistered their hands
And they burned out their Gbrain
GAll dreaming a dream
That'll never come Amtrue
Hey, don't Dgive me no trouble
Or I'll call up my double
We'll play piggy-in-the-middle
With Gyou
[Chorus]
You'll get Gmesmerized by allibies
And limbo danced in Cpairs
Please lock that AmdoorD  
It don't Dmake much sense
That Dcommon sense
Don't make no sense no Gmore
It don't Dmake much sense
That Dcommon sense
Don't make no sense no Gmore
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