Tom: F major•
Verse 1
C
Gm
C
Gm
F
D
The longer I live in this cockeyed world,
G
D
Gm
C
the plainer I can see the truth of that old
Gm
C
F
C
F
saying, what fools we mortals be.
D
Gm
D
Gm
They say we're all getting smarter, but I'm afraid I can't agree,
Gm
C
few of the things we do that
F
Bb
F
don't make sense to me.
D
You send your boy to a high -toned school and
Gm
C
spend a lot of dough for a musical education
with
C
F
So -and -so.
D
Now you just know he was born for the opera,
Gm
but brother, wasn't you wrong?
C
D
F
Because he winds up with a ten -gallon
C
F
hat singing a hillbilly song.
F#dim
Gm
D
Gm
You drive all day to attend a sale and the auctioneer starts to spiel,
the other guy.
F
D
You buy the thing for two and
D
Gm
C
back home and then you find they've got the same darn
F
C
Gm
C
Gm
F
thing right in the five and ten.
Now the
D
Joneses buy a brand new car and the
Gm
D
Gm
Smiths say, huh, pulling a fast one.
Bb
C
So what do they do but buy one too,
F
though they ain't done paying for the last one.
D
Now they both know the other one's broke,
Bb
and somebody's bound to sue them,
C
and the kids won't get so much to eat,
Bb
F
Joneses outdo them.
F#dim
You send your daughter to college,
D
Gm
and a great career you plan.
G
Then just before graduation,
C
she meets that nice young man.
F
She winds up in his kitchen,
D
Gm
D
a brilliant girl, that's true,
Gm
But
Latin and
C
F
Greek don't help her a
C
F
bit to make a good
C
Gm
C
F
Irish stew.
D
Gm
D
Gm
Doctors and nurses rush around and work with all their might to
Bb
C
F
C
F
save the life of a bandit who got shot up in a fight.
D
They patch him up and get him well
Gm
D
after slaving night and day.
Gm
C
and then two weeks later
Gm
C
they hang the guy.
F
Bb
F
Kind of wasted effort, I'd say.
Now the
F#dim
Indians had the right idea,
D
Gm
a system without any flaws.
G
No income tax and no rent to pay and the
C
work was done by the squaws.
F
D
Never a thing to worry about,
Gm
just eat and sleep and get fat.
C
Gm
C
And the poor dumb white man thought that he
F
C
Gm
C
could improve on a system like that.
F
You
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