Take The Star Out Ofthe Widow Tab par John Prine

Intro:
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 C
 Robert was a sailor
         F
 For the best years of his life
                     C
 His Captain was his mother
                       G
 And the ocean was his wife.
      C
 Only fresh out of the cradle
                     F
 Life's one and only spring
                        C
 He was sworn to do his duty
     G                        C
 Got blood on his high school ring.

Chorus:

 C
 And it's Hello California
               F
 Hello Dad and Mom
                 C
 Ship Ahoy, your baby boy
              G
 Is home from Vietnam.
       C
 Don't you ask me any questions
                        F
 'Bout the medals on my chest
                          C
 Take the star out of the window
            G                 C
 And let my conscience take a rest.

Intrumental:

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 So he sailed across the ocean
                         F
 To that old far Eastern war
                       C
 it was foreign to his body
                       G
 it was foreign to his shore.
       C
 So he traded in the present
                           F
 for the better times he'd seen
                  C
 Made an oriental waitress
     G              C
 His own Homecoming Queen

Repeat chorus