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The Peel Sessions

Culture Vultures

[tabulated by qwerty@cmu.edu]

[G5 E5 B5]

What we do is what we do
No more no less, to hear too few
To see straight through in a roundabout way
Circle slowly while we play
Which the hunter, whom the prey

[E]

Dragged down in open country
Struck down in fullest flight
Bad break and daybreak, fondling at midnight
Victim of the culture vultures, no job they must beat me
They got nervous stomach yet they talk of bravery

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What we are is what we are
No more no less, below or par
The better actor on appropriate day
Circle slowly while we play
Who will pray? Who will pray?

Clobbered in a silent place
Choked by the conditioned air
Headache 'cos I smoke, streak in the sunlight
Victim of the culture vultures, no job they must beat me
They got nervous stomach yet they talk of bravery

Crazy about Love

A group of flies make a sludge denial while fiddling the weights
They dispatched to the southern extremities
She throws a letter
Out of the window | She puts the southern states
Summoned his fate | Before the north
On a piece of note | She, she doesn't show her true feelings
In a strip of dancing | Automation's too much for him
Initially being unhealthy
Fortunately he's brave
He's not smart
The piano
Ideas land and come way on top | He's pointed an animal out in church
Which reveals right
In the best possible environment
They're essential
It makes little difference to be there | She pointed
At him
[Opponent?] screamed and shaven
A story of calm and crazy about love
She and I both think the eye are out?
To where
A fellow from Indonesia
With a broadcaster's manner | [?] prisoners
Sounding naturally as the ground | Entertainers
A [loose/looks?] to the right to be free possibly
Odds to be brought on for the sound of racket of soldiers and politicians
I quickly arrange an air
Instead of these songs
In the fighting [outist?] | They get me the number right
It's what one does | They get me the number right
When one is unable to take off | They get me the number right
When one is unable to take off (*6)
Get up
And they're even running
Get up
And learn a Mozart
The new one makes sweeping changes
Nasty at heart, remember you didn't get an even number right
When one is unable to take off | I took advice staring blankly towards the ground, [naked stays the nine?]
When one is unable to take off | And finally the way stuff [?] ability
When one is unable to take off
When one is unable to take off | She
It's a story in common
We've got one in the fighting out East
To wear | [?] lengths take off
Eleven selected prisoners
Entertainers are to be brought in
For a song
A racket of soldiers
And politicians
I quickly arrange an air
Instead of these songs
They get neither
Number right
I this [man?]
Make sure you clean in the corners
For little Jack has already won this
So take care (*2)
A group of fires (*2)
When one is unable to take off (*29)
[?] running
Head up and learn? and walk south (*27)
Make sure you clean in the corners (*15)
Make sure
[Very instance?] (*2)
Unshaven
Un-haven (*2)
Polite?

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