Don't Harm The Messenger

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 (cont riff)                          1.One day you   might hear someone knocking

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         Loudly at your door                    And you know it must be bad news

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         Abso-lutely sure              You must realise before you       strike the

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 very first blow            He's the one who only tells you             what you al-

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 ready know                  Lay not a finger on him     Beat not oh bruise not his

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 skinny skin skin   No don't ever harm the messenger                          Don't
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 ever harm the messenger
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        2.Under-               Don't ever harm the messenger               No don't

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 ever harm the messenger
                                     Rpt and fade
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2.Understand he came a long way
  On a lonely road
  Multiplying were his trials
  Heavy was his load
  Undersand his heart was breaking
  Never once did he sleep
  And no hollow log kept him warm
  No council did he keep
  Give him food give him a bed
  Touch not one single hair on his head

3.Inst

4.Spoken verse as for 2
  Lay not a finger on him
  Beat not oh bruise not his skinny skin skin