God Bless The Absentee chords by Paul Simon

Chords with lyrics

Key: Bb majorBb

♫ Intro:
 F minorFm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb  F minorFm Bb majorBb  Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb  F minorFm Bb majorBb  Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb  F minorFm Bb majorBb  F minorFm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
F minorFm Bb majorBb


♫ Verse 1:
F minorFm  Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb       F minorFm   Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb
Lord
I'm a working man and music is my trade
        Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb        C7C7
I'm traveling with this five piece band
I play the ace of spades
   F minorFm       FF        BbmBbm AbAb   Eb MajorEb
I have a wife and family who don't see much of me
 F7F7         Bb7Bb7
God bless the absentee

♫ Verse 2:
Fm7Fm7      Bb7Bb7    Fm7Fm7  Eb MajorEb   Bb7Bb7
Lord
I am a surgeon and music is my knife
  FF  Eb MajorEb   Bb7Bb7    C7C7
It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life
  F minorFm       FF        BbmBbm  AbAb    Eb MajorEb
But if I could release my heart and veins and arteries
    F7F7       Bb7Bb7
I'd say God bless the absentee

♫ Verse 3:

 EbM7Ebm7   EbmEbm     D MajorD   GbGb
I miss my woman so
I miss my bed
 C minorCm     BB       C majorC
I miss those soft places I used to lay my head


♫ Verse 4:
  EbmEbm         D MajorD        GbGb
My son don't need me yet, his bones are soft
  C minorCm       BB      C7C7
He flies a silver airplane, he wears a golden cross
 F7F7         Bb7Bb7
God bless the absentee

♫ Verse 5:
       Bb majorBb
Lord, this country's changed so fast
    F minorFm  FF    Bb majorBb      C7C7
The future is the present, the present's in the past
 F minorFm       F7F7       BbmBbm  AbAb  Eb MajorEb
Highways are in litigation, the airports disagree
 F7F7      Bb7Bb7
God bless the absentee

God bless the absentee