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Benny's On The Rooftop
Mark Wilkinson (2012)

Capo 7th
Standard tuning

Chords used:
           
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B|--0---|--1--
G|--0---|--0--
D|--2---|--2--
A|--2---|--3--
E|--0---|-----

           
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-|--3---|--0--
-|--0---|--2--
-|--0---|--1--
-|--2---|--2--
-|--3---|-----

      
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-|--2---|--3--
-|--0---|--4--
-|--2---|--4--
-|--4---|--2--
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INTRO
                  
                  


VERSE
       
Man us kids, w

e can be so cr

uel
     
Teen armies ne

ver suffered n

o fools
    
But Benny was 

a sucker
              
Man he never r

          
eally fit in
     
Poor Benny had

 to do his tim

e
     
Just breathing

 was a capital

 crime

Man we made hi

m suffer
              
Benny never re

          
ally knew why


PRE CHORUS
            
 This time I t

              
hink we've pus

         
hed too far
             
 This time we'

              
ve opened up a

  
 scar
            
 This time we'

              
ve pushed him 

        
to the edge
         
 This time it'

              
s really gone 


straight to hi

s head


CHORUS

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he mig

      
ht've jumped t

his time
              
You didn't see

     
 the look in h

is eye
              
I think we've 

           
pushed him way

 too far

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he mig

      
ht've jumped t

his time
              
You didn't see

     
 the look in h

is eye
              
I think we've 

           
pushed him way

 too far

Way too far


VERSE
           
So come on Ben

ny step on bac

k from that le

dge
          
'Cause we didn

't mean a word

 that we said
        
Yeah we though

t your skin wa

s thicker
         
Than the lines

 that we fed


PRE CHORUS
            
 I saw him roc

            
king on the ed

ge
         
With the years

 of anger, iso

lation

Running throug

h his head
            
Nah, Benny don

              
't step off th

   
at ledge
         
For the world 

              
will drown in 

     
your river run

ning red


CHORUS

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he mig

      
ht've jumped t

his time
              
You didn't see

     
 the look in h

is eye
              
I think we've 

           
pushed him way

 too far, no n

o

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he mig

      
ht've jumped t

his time
              
You didn't see

     
 the look in h

is eye
              
I think we've 

           
pushed him way

 too far


BRIDGE
              
Yeah, he might

    
've jumped thi

s time
            
He might've ju

mped this time
            
He might've ju


mped this time
              
Benny might've

 
 jumped this t

ime
              
Yeah, he might

    
've jumped thi

s time
            
He might've ju

mped this time
              
Benny might've

 
 jumped this t

ime
              
I think he mig

      
ht've jumped
     
this time


INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
                  


CHORUS

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he rea

    
lly jumped thi

s time
              
You didn't see

     
 the look in h

is eye
              
I think we've 

           
pushed him way

 too far


OUTRO

Benny's on the

 rooftop man
              
I think he rea

    
lly jumped thi

s time
              
I think he rea

    
lly jumped thi

s time
          
He really jump

ed this time
          
He really jump

ed this time

END ON Em



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