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intro 

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On the day that dennis brown's lung collapsed
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spring rain was misting down on kingston
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and down at the harbour local 
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cops were intercepting an inbound shipment
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and for a while there it was chaos 
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as they handcuffed and then roughed up some sailors
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on the day my lung collapses
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it's not gonna be much different

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On the day that dennis brown's habits caught up with him
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school children sang in choirs
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and out behind the chinese restaurants 
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guys were jumping into dumpsters
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and the stench was overbearing 
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but they were past the point of caring
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on the day my habits catch up with me
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i'll be down among the jumpers

Break:

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and when the birds come home in spring
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we will fill them full of buckshot
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and jets of contaminated blood 
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will cloud the rivers and the lakes
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it took all the coke in town 
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to bring down dennis brown
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on the day my lung collapses
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we'll see just how much it takes

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and then D (light on the high notes)

outro:

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