Go Home Bible Mike

Fatima Mansions' Valhalla Avenue

Released in 1992 by Kitchenware Records

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INTRO

“One was taking the gate down today, and one reads the Bible.”

 
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VERSE 1
 
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Wel
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come to  
C 
Apeville 
 
 
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C 
Now you’re a  
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citizen 
 
 
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too 
 
 
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Bb 
Meet Mrs. Doreen  
Bb/E 
Pompidou
 
She’d  
Bb 
like to do the shimmy on  
Bb/E 
top of you
 
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The wall is  
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coming 
 
 
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down 
 
 
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The  
C 
one which  
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holds the  
C 
house up  
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A  
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brass band playing in a  
Bb/E 
dumptruck
 
Is  
Bb 
visible through clouds of  
Bb/E 
brick-dust
 
As  
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people dressed as cows form an orderly queue
 
For a  
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drug that makes you dead for a second or two
 
I  
Dm 
raise myself from my punchbowl, drowning:
 
The Ya
Bb 
kuza are singing: It can’t be true
CHORUS 1
 
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
VERSE 2
 
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Her  
C 
hand squeezes  
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mine and I  
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shudder 
 
 
C7 
 
She says “
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That was one  
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shock, now  
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here comes a
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nother
 
You  
Bb 
really don’t remember,  
Bb/E 
do 
 
you?”
 
I said “
Bb 
Why? Am I sup
Bb/E 
posed 
 
to?
 
Me, the  
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slut of di
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sheveled 
 
 
C 
women 
 
 
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Whom  
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fun has made  
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sad and  
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careless?
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”
 
Now she’s  
Bb 
knocked me onto the  
Bb/E 
greasy 
 
floor
 
And her  
Bb 
eunuch is barring the  
Bb/E 
only 
 
door
 
Pil
Dm 
lar, in her room above the pharmacia
Bb 
Smiles as she pictures your little thing
 
I
Dm 
magine her surprise when she looks through the window
 
And sees you  
Bb 
riddled with bullets while the cops all sing:
CHORUS 2
 
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
 
You  
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preach without a right
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Go home, Bible Mike
INTERLUDE
 
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You don’t make me laugh, you don’t make me horny

So what the hell are we doing here?
Gasping all night in this Nazi city
You bit it, I’m bleeding, we’re sliding on my blood
Humping on my blood

 
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Market my blood

Market my blood
You got a tourist mind
Deaf, dumb and blind to all the pain you bring
This is more than just sin

 
“Am I  
Bb 
really such a  
Bb/E 
nightmare?
 
If I  
Bb 
had a home I’d  
Bb/E 
go 
 
there.”
CHORUS 3/FADE
 
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Anytime you like
 
This  
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court says, “Take a hike”
 
The  
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slate will not be wiped
 
Just  
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go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
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Go home, Bible Mike
 
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