Next
(Brel/Shuman/Blau)

	
	Intro: E.. F/E.. x4
	
	
	see below for chords
	
	
	Verse 1
	
	Naked as sin, an army towel covering my belly
	Some of us blush, somehow knees turn to jelly
	Next, next!
	I was still just a kid, there were a hundred like me
	I followed a naked body, a naked body followed me
	Next, next!
	I was still just a kid when my innocence was lost
	In a mobile army whorehouse, gift of the army, free of cost
	Next, you're next!
	
	
	Verse 2
	
	I really would have liked a little touch of tenderness
	Maybe a word, just a smile, some instant happiness but no, no! 
	Next, next!
	Oh it... it wasn't so tragic, the high heavens didn't fall
	But how much of that time I hated being there at all
	Next, next!
	Now I always will recall the brothel truck, the flying flags
	The queer lieutenant who slapped our asses as if we were fags
	Next, you're next!
	
	
	Verse 3
	
	I swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhea
	It's his ugly voice that I forever hear
	Next, next!
	That voice that stinks of corpses, of whisky and of mud
	It is the voice of the nations, that thick voice of blood
	Next, next!
	And since then, each woman I've taken to bed
	Seems to laugh in my arms and whisper through my head...
	"Next, next..."
	
	
	Verse 4
	
	All the naked and the dead should hold each other's hands
	As they watch me scream at night in a dream no-one can understand
	Next, next!
	And when I'm not screaming in a voice grown dry and hollow
	I stand on endless naked lines of the following and the followed
	Next, next!
	One day I'll cut my legs off and burn myself alive
	Anything, I'll do anything to get out of line, just to survive
	And never to be next, oh never to be next...
	Next!
	
	
	end
	
	
	Chords
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	Because of the ad lib nature of the vocal I feel it makes more sense
	to present the chord structure and time separately so as to aid clarity.
	This is basically one verse:
	
	
	1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 
	Am      Am(ma7) Am7     Am(ma6) Am7     Am(ma6) E       F/E 
	
	
	1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
	E       F/E     E       F/E     E       F/E     E
	
	
	1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  
	Am      Am(ma7) Am7     Am(ma6)     
	
	
	1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 
	Dm      G       C               Dm              E       F/E
	
	      
	1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
	E       F/E     E
	
	...and so it repeats four times to end on Am.