A C Well I felt like I was born today A C So I took it upon me to go away A C To gather my thoughts and go away Bb A Where I could be used by somebody A C Now over the hill, like always you know A C Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe A C And they beat and broke me hard and slow Bb A To prove I was nobody A G And no-one I was and so I remained A G Knocked-out in a hut, no mother, no name A G And filled up my heart with one and the same A G A That grand dark feeling of emptiness A C And was it a friend that turned me loose A C Or was it a girl come to baste my goose A C Or was it my great god who laid on his finger Bb A And started my clock anew A G Ah no, it was rain ; ah no, it was gunning A G It was point-break and buckle and singing and cunning A G That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running A G A And I never looked back from then on A And now I am learning bit by bit G About the make and model shit F The muddy bowl I live in it E A And all the mucks that tire us A And I'm afeared if I don't have G A piglet, lamb or little calve F I'll chop my human-ness in half E A And be as worm or virus A But kids I've had, and they are sung G Upon folks' ears my babes are hung F Rhythmically they live among E A And grow but don't get old A Not in a box, not in a void G Not if their voice is never heard F Nor if no-one repeats a word E A But if their tune is told C G Then we can age and fall away C G To meet again some golden day A G And fill it in our happy way F E In starlight and in gold