Key: Eb major
Intro 1
Bb
Eb
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D
Gm
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Verse 1
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Life is short,
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short brother,
C
Cm
Bb
Ain't it the truth?
And there is no other,
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F
Ain't it the truth?
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Cm
You've got to grab that rainbow
Eb
Bb
Eb
While you've still got your youth
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Gm
C
F
Bb
Ain't it the solid truth?
Was a man called Adam
Cm
C
F
Bb
Ain't it the truth?
Said now look here madam
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F
Ain't it the truth?
Bb
Cm
Dbdim
You got to bite that apple
Ddim
Bb
Eb
While you still
got your tooth
Gm
C
Ain't it the mellow
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Bb
Eb
Bb
truth?
Eb
C
Long as there's wine and gin
Bb
to drown your troubles in
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Cm
What's all this talk of sin?
Bdim
Cm
F
Rise and shine and fall in line
Bb
Get that new religion
Cm
Fsus4
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Ain't it the truth for
you is dead pigeon?
Cm
C
F
Ain't it the truth?
Bbm
Eb
Cm
Db
Cause when you're laid horizontal
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Gm
Eb
In that telephone booth
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Bb
There'll
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be no breathin' smell
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F
G
Gm
It's only natural
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Cm
F
Bb
Eb
Ain't it the gospel truth?
A#
B
Life is short, short,
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F#
brother
B
And there is no other,
Cdim
that's the truth
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B
C#m
C#
Ddim
So if you don't love livin',
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B
E
Fdim
you are slightly uncouth
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C#
B
Oh, ain't it the dignified truth?
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Fdim
Life is a rippin' book,
B
man is a fish to cook,
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go on and bait your hook,
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F#
G
D
rise and shine and heed that line,
Am
C
F
C
you got to get your passin',
Am
D
G
C
you gotta, gotta get some truth,
Am
while you're
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F
C
Still in blossom,
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Dm
G
ain't that the truth?
C
Dm
D
Ebdim
And that wet borderlin er,
C
F
F#dim
Cleopatra and Ruth
C
Am
Them babies did mighty swell
C
Am
They rang that Jezebel
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F
C
And it forgot to bell too
Am
C
D
Ebdim
That wet borderliner
C
Am
F
F#dim
Cleopat ra and Ruth
C
Am
Them thieves did mighty swell
C
Am
They rang that Jezebel
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G
C
And it's gospel truth
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F#dim
Delilah Cleopat
C
F
ra and Ruth
D
F
C
They got the gun to hold true
Outro 1
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