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rainbow
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[Verse]AmSomewhere in the world there is a father and a motherAnd the father is a son who has a motherFThe mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a motherDm EmAnd they all just try to multiply with one another[Pre-Chorus]Am'Cause that's just the way of the worldIt never ends till the end, then you start againFThat's just the way of the worldDm EmThat's just the way of the world[Verse]AmSomewhere in the world they think they work all for themselvesThey get up everyday to go to work for someone elseFSomebody works for them and so they think they've got it madeDm EmBut they're all just working to get paid the very same[Chorus]AmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dumAmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum[Verse]AmSomewhere in the world you got a robber at a bankAnd the bank robbed the people so the people rob the bankFAnd the police came to get him, but they let him get awayDm Em'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same[Pre-Chorus]Am'Cause that's just the way of the worldIt never ends till the end, then you start againFThat's just the way of the worldDm EmThat's just the way of the world[Chorus]AmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dumAmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum[Bridge]AmDon't believe everything that you hearLet it go through your left and right earFDon't just march to the beat of that drumDm EmDon't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs[Pre-Chorus]Am'Cause that's just the way of the worldIt never ends till the end, then you start againFThat's just the way of the worldDm EmThat's just the way of the world[Chorus]AmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dumAmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumF Dm EmThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum[Outro]AmAnd so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dumFThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)Dm Em'Cause that's just the way of the world