Officer Dinosaur chords by Mary Wander

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
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My nephew wants to be a policeman but he's still very young
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It scares me that he respects them that I'm failing as an aunt
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He's my stepbrother's baby, they live in Ohio and I don't get to see them alot but I
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feel a sense of responsibility to teach him all that I've been taught

Verse 3:
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Is 6 years old too young to know that policemen are crooks and theives?
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That they murder peaceful people based on racist beliefs
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Is 6 years old too young to know that policemen murder and cage?
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That they walk with burning crosses, that they love to hate

Chorus:
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Now I have this opportunity to impress upon a young child
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Buy the anarchist children's book nobody ever bought me
A
And send it to Ohio

Outro:
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It's hard to decide sometimes what the right thing to do is
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But the choices feel true to my heart -when I make them
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It's hard to decide sometimes what the right thing to do is
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But the choices feel true to my heart -when I make them