Mystery Injury 

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Verse 1
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Sometimes when I play outside           I hurt myself and I don’t know why
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Scraping my knee is my tendency       Not sure what happened it’s a mystery
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Coming home from school at last         You see a bruise on my leg and you start to ask
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“How’d you get that bruise at school”  I can’t say, it’s just what I do
 
Chorus
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It’s a mystery injury
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It’s a mystery, even to me
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It’s a mystery injury
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And I don’t know how it got on
 
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Me
 
Verse 2
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Runnin just as fast as I can                          I didn’t see that bump as I ran
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Here I go flying through the air                  But I’ll get right up because I don’t care
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I guess that’s how I bruised my knee         I’m glad you weren’t there to see
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You’d only want to coddle me                     As you can see, I don’t need sympathy
 
Chorus
            C          D-
It’s a mystery injury
            C          Bb
It’s a mystery, even to me
            C          D-
It’s a mystery injury
            Bb                          D-   C  
And I don’t know how it got on

Bridge
D-        A-        D-        A-
Me
D-                    A-                                D-                                A-
Fallin’ down, scraping my knee, running into walls and tripping on things
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I guess that’s how I get these dings, but you don’t have to worry about the
Bb       C
little     things
D-                                A-                       D-                    A-
Hitting my head is a little worse, but I just see it as par for the course
D-                        A-                      G-                         
It’s possible I’ll shed a tear and then I’ll be glad that
Bb          Bb-
You are here             
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With me
 
Verse 3
F                                                               G-
I’m adding to my wounded knee,          As I run through the yard and prepare to leap
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It’s the third time I’ve tried it today.    Each time I know that my legs might pay
 
 
Chorus
            C             D-
With a mystery injury
            C          Bb
It’s a mystery, even to me
            C          D-
It’s a mystery injury
            Bb                          D-   C  
And I don’t know how it got on
 
Bb                       D-    C
Me                   It got on
 
Bb                       D-    C
Me                   It got on
 
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Me