Cm7 Cm7 Ab7M Fm7 Bb
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Cm7
Somewhere in the world
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there is a father and a mother
Cm7
And the father is a son who has a mother
Abmaj7
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
FmBb
And they all just try to multiply with one another
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Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Abmaj7
That's just the way of the world
FmBb
That's just the way of the world
ย
Cm7
Somewhere in the world
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they think they work all for themselves
Cm7
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
Abmaj7
Somebody works for them and so they think they've got it made
FmBb
But they're all just working to get paid the very same
ย
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
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Cm7
Somewhere in the world you got a robber at a bank
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And the bank robbed the people
Cm7
so the people rob the bank
Abmaj7
And the police came to get him, but they let him get away
FmBb
'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same
ย
Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Abmaj7
That's just the way of the world
FmBb
That's just the way of the world
ย
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
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Cm7
Don't believe everything that you hear
Cm7
Let it go through your left and right ear
Abmaj7
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
Fm7Bb
Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs
ย
Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Abmaj7
That's just the way of the world
FmBb
That's just the way of the world
ย
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7
skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
FmBb
skiddly dee da dum dum
ย
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly dee da dum
Abmaj7
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Fm7BbCm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world