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Capo 5 - Album version
C G
Happy New Year everybody
G
Theres an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa watching TV
C
He's yelling his opinion at the television she looks up from her food and agrees
D
They got two bumper stickers on their pick up truck, they keep the pick up parked outside
G
One sticker says "What would Jesus do?", the other bumper sticker says "Power of Pride"
G
I was thumbing through the stations on my own television
C
When I come across a guy on this religous station
D G
Singing "Somebody's Coming", he sounded whiter than me somehow - wow
G
It took me back in time through dwindling joy
C
To when I was such a guilt ridden Catholic boy
D G
I'm Evangelical Agnostic now
C D
I dont know what we're doing here
D G
You don't know what were doing here
G
Now Christians dont walk out on me just yet
C
You know whose name I'm yelling as I'm clutching my chest
D
The one my Dad told me to, and his told him to
G
And I probably pray as much or more than you do
G
Believe? S**t, every word I sing
C
But believing and knowing, those are two different things
D
And if your trying to change the way a strangers life will have to go
G
I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know
C
Which is nothing you know, nothing for sure, so
D
Just chill 'til the next episode
G
Now back to the lecture at hand
C
Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he can't understand
D
I say we cant just kill what we dont understand
G
But I turn on my TV and see that oh yes we can
G
We can, and we have since the dawn of man
C
For countless gods whose only real seeming plan
D
Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate
G
And you gotta admit life's pretty great,
C D G
But - can we deny that its killing us? , I'll be here all week
C G
Happy New Year everybody
C G
Happy birthday Country Joe
C G
I resolve to do like I always do
D
I ain't hurtin' you
G
If life is anything its embarrassing
C
A rusty nail through a careless shoe
D
You cant help but sit around and wonder sometimes
G
Why there's never anything the nail can do
G
Or think about how unfair it is
C
That the shoe is always going where it's got to too
D
If you ain't the dumb kid out running around
G
You kinda gotta do what your born to do, hey
C G
Happy New Year everybody
C G
Specifically Happy Birthday to you Country Joe
C G
I resolve to do what I always do
D G
And I only ever make it a day or two
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