Rhyme and Reason

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The Cat Empire - Rhyme and Reason

Chords used
Cmin G# A A#
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Cmin
Rhyme and reason
G#
Reason and rhyme
A#
We asked the old man
Cmin
“What is the time?”
Cmin
The time he said
G#
“I do not know.
A# Cmin
The clock stopped working some time ago”
Cmin G#
“What a disaster” was our reply
A# Cmin
“We don’t know if it’s 1 o’clock or half past 5”
Cmin G#
The man kept talking things were fine
A#
Looking at the sun he said
Cmin
The time was for reason and rhyming

Bass line
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(continue the strumming pattern)(same chords)
Reason and rhyme
Rhyme and reason
We asked the old lady “What is this season?”
The season she said
“You can’t be sure.
The weathers changed, can’t tell you any more”
“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god what a thing!
We don’t know if it’s summer, autumn, winter or spring”
“But wait,” she said
“This might be pleasing.
The time has come for rhyming and rhyming and reason”

Rhyme and reason and destination
We ask ourselves, what is this nation?
This place they say is no mans land
And terra nullius is written in the sand
So what
With all these spaces
Can’t we be independent and combine the races
Well we will see what we can do
Like time and season
We’ll rhyme and then we’ll reason along