• Song:

    Children

  • Artist:

    The Mavericks

  • Album:

    Collection

Intro: Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5  Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5  (x2)
 
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A child who was raised by an unworthy hand, 
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Has less of a chance of being a man. 
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Well try to remember and then understand, 
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Why a mother would cry while her husband lay dead. 
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Shot down by the gun of a runaway train, 
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'Cause life in the fast lane, it all ends the same. 
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Well the same children's lives, they will always regret, 
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Are the children who never forget. 


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A man ends up tired and walking alone, 
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On a street corner singing for a penny a song. 
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What he cannot remember, was never his own, 
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Thats the answer he gave when he speaks of his home. 
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Well the streets of my life I don't know anymore, 
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Where the children are junkies and the ladies are whores. 
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Well the same children's lives, they will always regret, 
        Eb5           F5       Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5 
Are the children who never forget. 
 

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Goodnight, goodnight sweet child. 
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Why don't you dream with the angels, to forget for a while? 
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To forget of the life, thats been handed to you, 
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Where everything's real, yet nothing is true. 
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Well perhaps you can change what the cards always read, 
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For the children who never forget. 


Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5  Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5 
INSTRUMENTAL 


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For a time they were counting you out of this race, 
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You stood up like a champion that had fallen with grace. 
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Never showing the anguish that covered your face, 
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You were raped and forgotten, left to die in disgrace. 
     Bb5          Eb5       Bb5      F5 
Shot down by the gun of a runaway train, 
       Bb5          Eb5            Bb5           F5 
'Cause life in the fast lane, it all ends the same. 
         Bb5              Eb5               Bb5       F5 
Well the same children's lives, they will always regret, 
        Eb5           F5       Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5 
Are the children who never forget. 


Bb5  Eb5         Bb5          F5 
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child. 
              Bb5             Eb5            Bb5        F5 
Why don't you dream with the angels, to forget for a while? 
      Bb5         Eb5               Bb5        F5 
To forget of the life, thats been handed to you, 
      Bb5           Eb5        Bb5         F5 
Where everything's real, yet nothing is true. 
        Bb5           Eb5              Bb5           F5 
Well perhaps you can change what the cards always read, 
        Eb5           F5       Bb5  Eb5  Bb5  F5 
For the children who never forget. 


Bb5  Eb5         Bb5          F5 
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child. 
              Bb5             Eb5            Bb5        F5 
Why don't you dream with the angels, to forget for a while? 
      Bb5         Eb5               Bb5        F5 
To forget of the life, thats been handed to you, 
      Bb5           Eb5        Bb5         F5 
Where everything's real, yet nothing is true. 
 
*(repeat to fade)*
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