C                               G 
First they made me sleep in the closet (laughter) 
C                               G 
First they made me sleep in the closet (awwwwwww) 
G                                  C 
Then they made me sleep out in the hall 
C7                         F 
   when i got a little bit older,  
G                                    C 
  they made me sleep against the wall (aww) 

C                       G 
Then i was so young and tender (ohhhh) 
                         C 
But now im oh so big and hard, ah oh (awww) 
    C7                       F     G 
And now that im a little bit older  
                              C 
I've got to sleeps in the backyard 

            F 
When he was just about three  
                    C 
All the girls would fight to see 
                   G 
Who could hold him on their knee 
             C            C7 
But now it's plain to see 
              F 
Now that he's big and hard 
                 C 
He's got to stay in the backyard 
         G 
He had a job and got fired 
            C                   C7 
And ohh the ground is so hard 

           F 
And i'm so sure someday 
                      C 
Some pretty girl will come his way 
             G 
And then his mama would say  
                C               C7 
Boys and girls, you don't play 
            F 
And it's so plain to see 
              C 
What his mama wants him to be 
              G 
Locked and not to be free  
                    C 
To play with you or me 

C                        G 
Now ill sleep out in the graveyard (ohhhhh) 
G                   C 
Seem my mama up and died (laugher, yea) 
C7                         F            G 
Now ill just lay round her tombstone  
                                C  
Scratching peace symbols in the side 

C  G# x4 

    C                G#          C      G#      C  
I'm scratching peacesymbols in your tombstone 
                G#           C     G#   C  
Scratching peacesymbols in your mind 
                      B         C 
I like to know how to get there 
                      B 
I like to know how to get there 

Dm                                   G 
Can't you heard ohh can't you hear a tear as i'm  

C               G#         C        G#          C  
Scratching peacesymbols in your tombstone 
                G#           C     G#   C  
Scratching peacesymbols in your mind 
                      B         C 
I like to know how to get there 
                      B 
I like to know how to get there 

    Dm                               G 
The only thing you know is what they told you 
    Dm                               G 
The only thing you know is what they said 
     Dm                  G 
They showed you by their actions 
      Dm                       G 
That all was true and real was dead 

        C               G#         C        G#          C  
But i'm scratching peacesymbols in your tombstone 
                G#           C     G#   C  
Scratching peacesymbols in your mind 
                      B         C 
I like to know how to get there 
                      B 
I like to know how to get there 

        Dm                      G 
My mama told me, just what she said 
Dm                            G 
Stay away from them girls and my bed 
        Dm                             G 
But the women with her thoughts is all dead 
              Dm                  G 
Cuz there's a cloud of led in her head 

    C                G#          C      G#      C  
I'm scratching peacesymbols in your tombstone 
                G#           C     G#   C  
Scratching peacesymbols in your mind