Fat Man
By John Fullbright
Written by John Fullbright
CD: From The Ground Up (2012)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
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Am                   Dm
In my dreams I see a fat man
       E         Am
On his face is a frown
         Am                Dm
He’s got money in his left hand
       E                               Am  C/B  C
In his right he’s got strings that run all over town
      Dm            Am                Dm       E   
As he pulls on them tightly he chokes all that grows
         Am            Dm 
He keeps watch day and nightly
           E           Am   
And plucks life like a rose


In my dreams I see the young men
That will change history
They will die for the fat man
As he laughs so carelessly
In his laughter I hear the sorrow from the pain that it brings
I hear mothers weeping softly
Wrapped up tightly in his strings

Cut the strings from his fingers
Wrap them twice around his throat
Show him not your kind mercy
From the laws that he forgot he wrote
Let us know of that which binds us
That which steals all that grows that which kills what defines us
To be plucked like a rose