Dum Dums-Plastic Flowers

Intro
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Verse
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Monsieur Dupont he was an ordinary fellow
Cadd9           Em7   Dsus4
Equally bad and good
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Got sick of women so he got into porno
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And gave to charities 'cause he knew he should
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Never gave up on striving for the rainbow
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Mindless happiness with a healthy lawn
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Trembling with joy at the thought of a new TV
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Under a regime of robots in authority

Chorus
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Plastic flowers laying on his grave
         Cadd9      Em7             Dsus4 D  Dsus4  D
From the company he gave thirty-two years to
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Plastic flowers melting in the sun
    Cadd9        Em7             Dsus4 D  Dsus4  D
A memento to the glorious things he's done

Verse
He had a car and a home on the Northside
Respectable neighbourhood
And all his struggling to obtain riches
Laying dead it doesn't do him much good
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world
And yet to lose his soul
What does it profit a man to love little
And not be loved at all

Chorus

Middle
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In my life I pray
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I don't just follow blindly                 x2
Cadd9            Em7
All the plans preset for me
    Cadd9                      Dsus4
And without question become my enemy

Verse
The factory people carry on without him
Another face occupies his place
He had friends but he never really knew them
Such a shame that he went so young
Above the terraces and multi-storey car parks
He will be sitting trial
Too late to gasp out for God at his last breath
Hoping that he's got a loophole or two left

Chorus

Outro
G       D             Cadd9   Em7 Dsus4 Cadd9    Em7    D  Dsus4  D
Plastic flowers fade away
G       D             Cadd9   Em7 Dsus4 Cadd9    Em7    D  Dsus4  D
Plastic flowers fade away
G       D             Cadd9   Em7 Dsus4 Cadd9    Em7    D  Dsus4  D
Plastic flowers fade away
G       D             Cadd9   Em7 Dsus4 Cadd9    Em7    D  Dsus4  D
Plastic flowers fade away
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